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The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanonby Tamara Chalabi; Fouad Ajami
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00Highlights the development of a 'politics of demand' and the increased political activism of this community in a time of great change. This book 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...
Hezbollahby Augustus Richard Norton
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 14.95Most 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 the Middle East. After Lebanon tottered close to disaster, Hezbollah and its allies gained renewed political power in Beirut. The most lucid, informed, and balanced analysis of the group yet written, Hezbollah is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Middle East. A new afterword brings readers up to date on Hezbollah's most recent actions. more...
The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788by Stefan Winter
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00A new perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. more...
(Re)Constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syriaby Nicola Migliorino
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, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the 1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and cultural diversity of the Armenian community. Since 1970, the coming to power of... more...
Warriors of Godby Nicholas Blanford
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99Hezbollah 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 of reporting in Lebanon and conversations with Hezbollah’s determined fighters, Blanford reveals their ideology, motivations, and training, as well as new information on military tactics, weapons, and sophisticated electronic warfare and communications systems. Using exclusive sources and his own dogged investigative skills, Blanford traces Hezbollah’s extraordinary evolution—from... more...
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