evidence: Aarsal is a region located in the north of the Bekaa valley on the Syrian border. Distanced 122 km from Beirut and 12km from the Syrian border, the town of Aarsal offers great insight to the functioning and spatial produc- tion of an extraterritory not only because it house a sizeable population of ‘displaced’ individuals (Syrian refugees), but also because it is home to ‘citizens’ of an extraterritory, Aarsal. To many visitors, Aarsal, located on the border between two countries is seemingly more a part of Syria than it is of Lebanon, due to facts such as the selling of a big number of syrian products in the area. [...] The fact that it is said that there are parts of the town inaccessible to the Lebanese Army or that the Syrian Army has freely searched houses in Aarsal are factors that question Aarsal’s belonging to Lebanon.