Review: The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology by Joseph E. Alagha
Rola el-Husseini wrote an in depth review of Joseph E. Alagha's upcoming Spring 2007 title The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology in the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies. The review is in response to recent hostilities in Lebanon amongst Israel's military, Lebanon's people, Hizbullah fighters, and their multifarious supporters.
Rola el-Husseini discusses Alagha's treatment of the linkages among Iran, Syria, and Hizbullah, focusing on the politico-religious concept of wilayat al-faqih, Hizbullah's funding, and the "Lebanonization" project associated with Hizbullah's charitable works. Along with Hamzeh's In the Path of Hizbullah, el-Husseini describes Alagha's The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology as, ". . . especially helpful in decoding the nature of the relations between the Islamic Republic and Hizbullah."
Download a .pdf version of the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies