When the long civil war ended in Lebanon, the long process of rebuilding the capital city began, which continues to affect events today. In order to understand how Beirut's central district was rebuilt, my work explores the ways that memory and the city's history were debated among groups at all social levels, government officials, financial agents, and intellectuals, ordinary residents, and the disenfranchised—all groups invoked different narratives of the city’s contested past. What happens after the post-war period? How do memory and contested history play out in the post-reconstruction era? After the completion of the controversial reconstruction project, whole collective memories had been obscured, marginalized groups responded by declaring their right to the city in the events of 2006 by erecting the "tent city” in the very city center. This paper, an extension of the epilogue of my monograph, Reconstructing Beirut (University Texas 2010), addresses the ways remembrance—and its antithesis, amnesia-- continue to play a central role in the determining the Lebanese relationship to Beirut's Central District. City residents still vie for their respective rights to this contested national urban symbol. The specific case of Lebanon revolves around questions that speak to the theme of memory in urban developments: How do marginalized groups and power-holders invoke recollections, collective memory, and history to argue for certain policies of urban space? How are these strategies affected by recent developments, especially the technology of social digital media? Reading the current Beirut situation through the lens of memory is part of the growing approach that adapts the anthropology of memory for the context of the Middle East.