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The notorious detention center at Khiam in South Lebanon was a long-denied political prison run by Israeli proxies, L'Arm ee du Liban-Sud. By investigating the curious life-cycles of this site from colonial barracks to detention center, then museum, ruins after its destruction during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of 2006, and back into some form of memorial site once more, this article assesses the potency of borders, creativity and the manifestation of archival figures in documentary and staged projects which center on Khiam. How do these projects face the challenge of representing something to which so few bore witness? In so doing, the memory politics of South Lebanon as distinct from the cosmopolitan cultures of Beirut are discussed across a diverse range of texts.

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