Hezbollah: The Story of the Party of God: From Revolution to Institutionalization

by Eitan Azani

The book examines the Hezbollah movement from a multidisciplinary, comprehensive, historical, and systematic perspective to explain how it has evolved since its inception in the early 1980s to the present.

Genres: Lebanon, History

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2011

Reviews

[Nadeem Yasin]

Very detailed regarding the movement and it's starting point during a weak Lebanese government in 82 the sectarian discrimination against the Shia and the invasion of Lebanon by Israel. The Hezobollah movement started just after the Islamic revolution in Iran with caused a great deal of concern to America and Israel who saw the movement as an expansion of the revolution and tried their upmost to quash the movement as quickly as possible. However they failed considerably and at the same time provided the movement fuel to expand and expand it did becoming the strongest military force in Lebanon. In its early days the movement was very radical and permitted acts such as suicide attracts kidnapping and even hijacking passenger flights however over the course of time the movement matured immensely and became more pragmatic. The movement became institutionalised and se native to internal and regional affairs. It transgressed into the Lebanese system and undertook activities in social political and welfare fields aswell as maintaining its military responsibility.