July 24th, 2010
Beirut: Signs of Postwar Politics
Posters along the former green line calling for “real change.”
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After years of foreign/militia rule, the Lebanese navy reasserts itself through this poster featuring a group of scowling teenage boys. “We’re back!” reads the caption in the lower left. Should we feel threatened or reassured?
Let’s hope the rest of the country is also past that stage.
This group is calling for the secularization of Lebanon, which is still run under a confessionalist system whereby political power is distributed proportionally among religious communities.
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