Many states, including Lebanon, have used the Covid-19 pandemic as an occasion to reassert their power and to consolidate their policing and repressive apparatuses. We are far from a seamless scenario, however. Rather than a mere reproduction of the sectarian political system, we argue in this paper that the governance of the pandemic in Lebanon reveals tensions between powerful political parties, weakened public agencies, as well as multiple solidarity groups with diverging aspirations, colliding over the imagined future of the country. Using various sources of information (broadcast, print and online news media, social media), we build a database of the types of actors and the categories of actions across locations, and analyze the territorial and political variations of the governance of the pandemic. The paper demonstrates that the Covid-19 response in Lebanon operates through ongoing negotiations over the national territory in which timid yet visible aspirations for a non-sectarian country confront sectarian territorialities through back-and-forth cycles.

包括黎巴嫩在内的许多国家都以 Covid-19 大流行为契机，重申其权力并巩固其治安和镇压机构。然而，我们远非一个无缝的场景。我们在本文中认为，黎巴嫩的大流行病治理揭示了强大的政党、被削弱的公共机构以及具有不同愿望的多个团结团体之间的紧张关系，而不是单纯的宗派政治制度的复制，在想象的未来上发生冲突国家的。利用各种信息来源（广播、印刷和在线新闻媒体、社交媒体），我们建立了一个包含不同地点的参与者类型和行动类别的数据库，并分析了大流行治理的地域和政治差异。