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#Podcast de la #RTS "Comme des Italiens en Suisse", où l'on apprend qu'un village construit pour héberger 1000 #ouvriers italiens près de #Vallorbe (#Suisse) était surnommé #Tripoli (en lien avec la colonisation fasciste italienne en #Libye), mais aussi "Village nègre"...

Ce "nègre" qui aurait pu être mon grand-père...

rts.ch/audio-podcast/2024/audi

instagram.com/p/DBbYCETsqpG/?i
#UMAM documentation & research ont collecté de nombreuses #archives au #liban à #tripoli comme à #beyrouth et en particulier à #darieh
#justiceForLokman

InstagramUMAM D&R on Instagram: "COLLECTING «DAHIYEH» A Cross Section of a History By #LokmanSlim (written after the War of 2006) No nostalgia. It’s true that once upon a time “Dahiyeh” was not “Dahiyeh.” Although the region might remain, in the memory of its oldest inhabitants, as a cluster of mixed villages clinging to the Coastal Southern Metn, it is a matter of fact that a dynamic transformation occured, over a long period of time, which created a new place called “Dahiyeh.” And while some protest its random christening as “Dahiyeh,” others, among them those most likely to have reservations, have employed it with ease. In 1984, when a publisher asked a native of Chiah to write his memoirs about the “Dahiyeh,” it seems the use of this name did not bother him. He even titled the book “The Old Days of Dahiyeh,” although he was describing a group of villages that no longer exist today, which could in no way be considered as suburbs... Read more here: https://umam-dr.org/Uploads/2020-06/EventPDF23.pdf #Dahiyeh #lebanon"104 likes, 0 comments - umam_dr on October 22, 2024: "COLLECTING «DAHIYEH» A Cross Section of a History By #LokmanSlim (written after the War of 2006) No nostalgia. It’s true that once upon a time “Dahiyeh” was not “Dahiyeh.” Although the region might remain, in the memory of its oldest inhabitants, as a cluster of mixed villages clinging to the Coastal Southern Metn, it is a matter of fact that a dynamic transformation occured, over a long period of time, which created a new place called “Dahiyeh.” And while some protest its random christening as “Dahiyeh,” others, among them those most likely to have reservations, have employed it with ease. In 1984, when a publisher asked a native of Chiah to write his memoirs about the “Dahiyeh,” it seems the use of this name did not bother him. He even titled the book “The Old Days of Dahiyeh,” although he was describing a group of villages that no longer exist today, which could in no way be considered as suburbs... Read more here: https://umam-dr.org/Uploads/2020-06/EventPDF23.pdf #Dahiyeh #lebanon".