El-Buss refugee camp

El-Buss camp

مخيم البص
El-Buss camp مخيم البص
Refugee camp
	Remains of a Roman aquaeduct in El Buss with the camp in the background
	El-Buss camp
	Coordinates: 33°16′21″N 35°12′36″E / 33.27250°N 35.21000°E
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South
District	Tyre
Area
• Total	1 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 either the article Al or El respectively – 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. 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]

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

[:5-1] Joudi, Reem Tayseer (2018). Visions of the South : precarity and the "good life" in the visual culture of Tyre (PDF) (Thesis). Beirut: American University of Beirut, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies. pp. 65–90. hdl:10938/21361.

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