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Hezbollah: A History of the Party of God
Dominique Avon
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Description for Hezbollah: A History of the Party of God
Hardback.
For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah's lionization and vilification by outside observers, and at the same time has prevented a clear-eyed view of Hezbollah's place in the history of the Middle East and its future course of action. Dominique Avon and Anais-Trissa Khatchadourian provide here a nonpartisan account which offers insights into Hezbollah that Western media have missed or misunderstood. Now part of the Lebanese government, Hezbollah nevertheless remains in tension with both the transnational Shiite community and a religiously diverse Lebanon. Calling for an Islamic ... Read more
For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah's lionization and vilification by outside observers, and at the same time has prevented a clear-eyed view of Hezbollah's place in the history of the Middle East and its future course of action. Dominique Avon and Anais-Trissa Khatchadourian provide here a nonpartisan account which offers insights into Hezbollah that Western media have missed or misunderstood. Now part of the Lebanese government, Hezbollah nevertheless remains in tension with both the transnational Shiite community and a religiously diverse Lebanon. Calling for an Islamic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674066519
SKU
V9780674066519
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About Dominique Avon
Dominique Avon is Professor of Modern History at the Universite du Maine, France. Anais-Trissa Khatchadourian is a doctoral candidate at the Universite du Maine, France.
Reviews for Hezbollah: A History of the Party of God
Though the book was written before the outbreak of violence in Syria
and thus prior to Hezbollah's demise as the hero of the Arabs
it provides important insight into the paradox of Hezbollah's ideology and the crux of the party's current predicament...[The] book lays the ground for understanding Hezbollah's fall from Arab grace and current events in the Levant.
(01/22/2013) It serves ... Read more
and thus prior to Hezbollah's demise as the hero of the Arabs
it provides important insight into the paradox of Hezbollah's ideology and the crux of the party's current predicament...[The] book lays the ground for understanding Hezbollah's fall from Arab grace and current events in the Levant.
(01/22/2013) It serves ... Read more