Cover; War Is Coming; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Translation; Timeline of Key Historical Moments; Major Political Parties and Political Blocs; List of Characters; Chapter 1. In the Meanwhile: Theory and Fieldwork in Protracted Conflict; Chapter 2. War, Politics, and Lunch: Conversations of Everyday Life; PART I.A NTICIPATION; Chapter 3. "At the Gates of War": Time, Space, and the Anticipation of Political Violence; Chapter 4. "This Is Our Life": Experiencing the Intensification of Political Violence; Chapter 5. Enframing the Anticipation of War; PART II. RECOLLECTION
Chapter 6. Active Forgetting and the Memory of War in Everyday LifeChapter 7. Ambiguities of War's Remembrance: Two Episodes; Chapter 8. Amnesty as a Politics of Protracted Conflict; Continuations. The Anticipation of War in 2009-2014; Appendix 1. The Cairo Agreement; Appendix 2. The Doha Agreement; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
Summary
War Is Coming is an ethnographic study that sheds light on the everyday conversations, practices, and experiences of people in Lebanon who live in between moments of political violence, remember past wars, and anticipate future turmoil