This paper situates Etel Adnan's l'Apocalypse arabe as a work of speculative poetics that takes as its point of focus the 1976 siege and massacre at Tal-el-Zataar, a Palestinian refugee camp just outside of Beirut. Adnan's "apocalyptic vision" I read in proximity to literary and aesthetic theories of "speculative" writing -- as opposed to realist or mimetic representations of atrocity-- as well as against the historical and archival erasures enacted by the Lebanese state and by humanitarian discourse in regards to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.