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Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance

Writing the Lebanese Nation

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvBashir Saade

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-04-26
Mått153 x 230 x 10 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Middle East Studies
Antal sidor190
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107499386

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Bashir Saade is a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Previously a Lecturer at the American University of Beirut, he holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from King's College London. He focuses on the subject of culture and how language and symbols affect political processes. Saade's current research aims at proposing new perspectives on understanding the relations between Islamic movements and states.

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; Epilogue. Confronting the state: between party and community; Conclusion.

'Through his focus on Hizbullah's cultural production, Bashir Saade has provided a wonderful intellectual discursion into what sets it apart from almost any other contemporary Arab politico-military movement. Central to this book is the notion that ideas are sticky, and tend to survive political changes: Hizbullah has turned them into traditions of doing, of action, through what [Saade] calls archival processes, a politics of remembering, and writing strategies that [Hizbullah's] secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, familiar to us all, both synthesizes and epitomizes with remarkable precision.' Yezid Sayigh, Carnegie Middle East Center