Musa al-Sadr

October 9, 2024 | David Daoud |

Naim Qassem: Hezbollah’s New and Subdued Voice

With Israel’s September 27 assassination of Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s voice has been subdued. But it has not, unfortunately, been entirely silenced. The mantle of Hezbollah’s...

October 1, 2024 | David Daoud |

Hezbollah c’est moi: The Party of God without Hassan Nasrallah

On September 27, the unimaginable happened. At approximately 5:22 p.m. local time, reports emerged of a massive Israeli strike on the predominantly Shia southern suburbs of Beirut, known colloquially as...

August 29, 2014 | Tony Badran |

Beheshti Never Came to Tripoli

This Sunday marks the 36th anniversary of the disappearance of Lebanese-Iranian cleric Musa as-Sadr during a visit to Libya in 1978. While it has long been unders...

July 28, 2014 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

1979 Revisited: Judging the Iranian Revolution

Everyone has his or her own judgment as to what is the enduring lesson of the Iranian Revolution. Some are rooted in economic determinism, while others may find strength among social theories. To...

May 22, 2014 | Tony Badran

Hezbollah’s Foreign Origins

This Sunday, Hezbollah will celebrate “Liberation Day,” commemorating Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. Hezbollah has created many myths that it tailored around its war...

November 18, 2013 | Tony Badran |

The Secret History of Hezbollah

Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It wasn&rsquo...

June 14, 2013 | Tony Badran |

Hashem Salman: A Moment of Clarity

On Sunday, a small group of demonstrators gathered outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut to protest Iran’s role in the war against the Syrian people. Hezbollah thugs deployed outside the em...

January 3, 2012 | Tony Badran |

“Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah’s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel,” by Nicholas Blanford

As the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria violently struggles for its life, observers of the region are wondering about the future of Iran’s alliances in the eastern Mediterranean...

September 8, 2010 | |

Moussa Sadr and the Islamic Revolution in Iran… and Lebanon

Last Tuesday marked the anniversary of the disappearance of Shia cleric Moussa as-Sadr—often dubbed the father of the Shia resurgence in Lebanon—during a visit to Libya in 1978. While...

July 6, 2010 | |

The Death of A Marja

The passing of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah over the weekend marks the end of an era for Lebanese Shiism. What comes next, and who will attempt to fill his shoes as the leadi...

June 22, 2010 | |

Syriana

In the annals of “big policy ideas,” perhaps none has had as much staying power in the face of a dismal track record than the seemingly perpetual conviction that integrating Syria int...

March 10, 2009 | |

The Syria-Iran Alliance

In recent years, a number of erroneous notions have been re-injected into the policy discourse on the thirty-year old alliance between Syria and Iran. Statements such as "prying Syria away from I...

July 8, 2008 | Tony Badran The Middle East Review of International Affairs

Lebanon’s Militia Wars

Lebanon's civil war was a complex, multisided battle whose implications still shape the country's politics today. This article analyzes the forces involved domestically and the course o...