In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and
Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary
general of the “Party of God,” burst into the spotlight of the
Western media — cast, almost inevitably, as an even more dangerous
incarnation of Osama bin Laden. Yet well before the start of the war,
Nasrallah had acquired an almost unrivalled credibility in the Arab
world among admirers and detractors alike, a profile that soared in
May 2000 when he became the first leader to push Israel out of Arab
land.
Voice of
Hezbollah brings to an English-speaking readership for the first
time Nasrallah’s speeches and interviews: the intricate, deeply
populist arguments and promises that he has made from the mid-1980s
to the present day. Newly translated from the Arabic, and with an
introduction by one of the foremost writers on Lebanon, Voice of
Hezbollah is critical to the understanding of the man and the
movement.
