Hizbullah and the politics of remembrance : writing the Lebanese nation / Bashir Saade, University of Edinburgh.

"Born out of the Israeli occupation of the South of Lebanon, the political armed group Hizbullah is a powerful player within both Lebanon and the wider Middle East. Understanding how Hizbullah has, since the 1980s, developed its own reading of the nature of the Lebanese state, national identity...

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Main Author: Saade, Bashir, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 47.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mapping the Ground of Hizbullah's Ideological Production; 2 Martyrology and Conceptions of Time in Hizbullah's Writing Practices; 3 Imagining the Lebanese Christians through Writing History; 4 The Debt to the Left and the Enemy: The Politics of Resistance; 5 Confronting the State: Writing Space and Hizbullah's Politics of Legitimacy; 6 Confronting the State: Between Party and Community; Conclusion; Glossary ; Select Bibliography; Index.