The publication of Regina Sneifer’s J’ai Deposé les Armes(2006) in an Arabic translation by Dar Al Farabi in 2008 titled ألقيت السلاحfollowing the publication of Joseph Saadeh’s Victime et Bourreau(1989) also in an Arabic translation by Dar Al Jadeed in 2006 titled أنا الضحية والجلاد أنا, make flagrant the dearth of published testimonies by militant men and women active during the Lebanese civil war. Previously, published testimonies by ex-high-ranking members of armed political organizations, such as Fawwaz Trabulsi’s صورة الفتى بالأحمر (1997), are more numerous but tend to follow the narrative structure of memoirs sedulously maintaining the integrity of the speaking subject and the te