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The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 100.00Tamara Chalabi highlights the development of a 'politics of demand' and the increased political activism of this community in a time of great change. It also explores how Arab nationalism was transformed from an ideology of opposition and empowerment of marginal communities, into a tool for the assertion of political domination. more...
The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 30.00A new perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. more...
Warriors of God
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 30.00Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a decade and a half... more...
Shi'ite Lebanon
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 26.99By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established leadership of Shi'ites but also institutional and popular activities... more...
Hezbollah
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 15.95Most policymakers in the United States and Israel have it wrong: Hezbollah isn't a simple terrorist organization--nor is it likely to disappear any time soon. Following Israel's war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, the Shi'i group--a hybrid of militia, political party, and social services and public works provider--remains very popular in... more...
(Re)Constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria
Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 75.00For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different,... more...
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