Shatila: the twilight world

"They have penetrated the twilight world and shown how people who are in danger of losing human attributes of thought, work and basic independence can be pulled back from the precipice. Twilight world invokes liminality, being between the light of humanity and culture and the darkness of the precipice on which these refugees were poised"

(J. Peteet, Landscape of hope and despair,Penn Press, 2005).