El-Buss refugee camp

El-Buss camp
مخيم البص
Remains of a Roman aquaeduct in El Buss with the camp in the background
Remains of a Roman aquaeduct in El Buss with the camp in the background
El-Buss camp is located in Lebanon
El-Buss camp
El-Buss camp
Coordinates: 33°16′21″N 35°12′36″E / 33.27250°N 35.21000°E / 33.27250; 35.21000
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth
DistrictTyre
Area
 • Total1 km2 (0.4 sq mi)
Population
 (2013)
11,254
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El-Buss camp (Arabic: مخيم البص) – also transliterated Bass, Bas, or Baas with the definite article spelled either al or el – is one of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, located in the Southern Lebanese city of Tyre. It had been a refuge for survivors of the Armenian genocide from the 1930s until the 1950s, built in a swamp area which during ancient times had for at least one and a half millennia been a necropolis (see article here). In recent decades it has been "at the center of Tyre’s experience with precarity" and "a space that feels permanent yet unfinished, suspended in time."[1]

  1. ^ Joudi, Reem Tayseer (2018). Visions of the South: precarity and the "good life" in the visual culture of Tyre (PDF) (Thesis). American University of Beirut, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies. pp. 65–90. hdl:10938/21361.