Cultural Heritage Destruction and Construction in Border Disputes: A Case Study of South Lebanon
Journal: Santander Art and Culture Law Review
Year: 2025

The southern borders of Lebanon have long been the focus of a territorial dispute, implicating cultural heritage in two key ways. Firstly, the destruction of tangible – and, to some extent, intangible – cultural heritage has been used to weaken the Lebanese population’s connection to borderlands in the south of Lebanon and to reinforce population displacement. Secondly, museum collections and archaeological claims are employed to construct national historical narratives, effectively attributing