Heroes or Terrorists? Who Is Hizbollah?

On Monday, December 11, 2006 UmmAli spoke with Ibrahim Mousawi, cheif editor of foreign news for Al Manar television. Listen to the podcast here.

For more information about the organization known as Hizbollah and the current protests in Lebanon, see these links:

Lara Deeb’s article, Hizbollah A Primer is one of the best online sources of information on the history and ideology of Hizbollah. In fact, in its brief summary it outstrips even longer works like Hala Jaber’s Hizbollah: Born With a Vengeance. Click here for Ms. Deeb’s article.

Although her framing of the protest in Lebanon as a “Shi’a sit in” is inaccurate–the opposition in the streets are comprised of segments of all of Lebanon’s confessional groups including Shi’a and Sunni Muslims, Druze, Christians and Communists–Megan K. Stack’s L.A. Times article, Shiite sit-in brings a new flavor to Beirut is one of the few pieces in mainstream American media that dares to offer an accurate class analysis of the current protests. Click here for Ms. Stack’s piece

~ by muslimstreet on December 13, 2006.