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A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah´s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel
Thanassis Cambanis
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Description for A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah´s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel
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The Islamic revolutionary movement Hezbollah has become most powerful source of radical militancy in the Middle East, more dangerous to its enemies than Hamas or even al Qaeda. It has forged a mass following and global appeal. Twice Hezbollah has defeated Israel in conventional wars, and its leader has become the most popular man in the Arab world. This book, blending first- person narrative with thoughtful exposition, offers the first close look at the men and women whose fervor has made Lebanon's Party of God the gold standard for violent movements across the region and the world. This book will ... Read more
The Islamic revolutionary movement Hezbollah has become most powerful source of radical militancy in the Middle East, more dangerous to its enemies than Hamas or even al Qaeda. It has forged a mass following and global appeal. Twice Hezbollah has defeated Israel in conventional wars, and its leader has become the most popular man in the Arab world. This book, blending first- person narrative with thoughtful exposition, offers the first close look at the men and women whose fervor has made Lebanon's Party of God the gold standard for violent movements across the region and the world. This book will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781439143612
SKU
V9781439143612
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About Thanassis Cambanis
Thanassis Cambanis is a journalist who has been writing about the Middle East for more than a decade. His first book, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel, was published in 2010. He writes “The Internationalist” column for The Boston Globe and is a correspondent for The Atlantic. Thanassis regularly contributes to The New ... Read more
Reviews for A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah´s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel
“Depressingly excellent… Lays out the near-brilliant way in which Hezbollah manages to be both the party of the downtrodden and the puppet of two of the area’s most retrograde dictatorships. Cambanis shows how the trick is pulled.”—Christopher Hitchens, Slate, author of Hitch-22 and God Is Not Great “An indispensable guide to understanding the region’s most formidable extra-state actor. Cambanis skillfully ... Read more