Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance

Writing the Lebanese Nation

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ID19948840
AuthorsBashir Saade (0009-0007-1392-5300, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-08-16
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316182215
OpenAlexW4239638363
Open LibraryOL34741674M
ISBN9781316182215
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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 and historical narrative is central to grasping the political trajectory of the country. By examining the ideological production of Hizbullah, especially its underground newspaper Al Ahd, Bashir Saade offers an account of the intellectual continuity between the early phases of Hizbullah's emergence onto the political stage and its present day organization. Saade argues here that this early intellectual activity, involving an elaborate understanding of the past and history had a long lasting impact on later cultural production, one in which the notion and practice of Resistance has been central in developing national imaginaries

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Public Spaces through Art · Government · Hizballah (Lebanon) · International · Islam and politics · Islam and state · Lebanon · politics and government

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