As part of the Unveiling Equity series, in partnership with CSLP, CPN-PREV, and the Indigenous Healing Knowledges Concordia Research Chair, this event invites a critical reflection on loss, memory, and resistance amid the ongoing demolition of villages in South Lebanon. Beyond physical destruction, the conversation centers the erasure of lived histories, homes that held childhoods, photographs, books and everyday life.

Framed as a “genocide of memory,” it asks: what does it mean to lose not only land, but the intimate archives of belonging? How do communities grieve when the material anchors of memory are erased?

An oral history dimension grounds the discussion across three generations: a daughter remembering a father who passed before witnessing the demolition of the home he built in his village; a son carrying the memory of a his Palestinian father; and a young man holding onto his grandparents’ call to return to Bint Jbeil as home.

The conversation also opens into an open mic, inviting participants to share their own stories of loss and grief, creating a collective space of witnessing. Through decolonial perspectives, speakers explore storytelling and remembrance as forms of resistance, and asks how dignity, identity, and connection to place can be reclaimed in the face of erasure.

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