Hizbullah's DNA and the Arab Spring by Alagha, Joseph Elie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A brief history -- The history of Lebanese Shiʻites and Hizbullah's anathema in the 1980s -- The religious elements in Hizbullah's ideology : differences with Sunni Islam -- Political violence : legal aspects of jihad, 9/11, and self-sacrifice -- Hizbullah's infitah ("opening up") and integration from the 1990s to the July 2006 war -- Hizbullah's hegemony from the July 2006 war to the present -- Hizbullah's clandestine conclaves, organizational structure, the 2009 manifesto, and dialogue with the west -- The polemics : a review of the literature -- Hizbullah's stance on the Arab Spring -- Chronology of events (1975-2012) -- Glossary.…”

Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective essays in honour of Albert Hourani

Table of Contents: “…Albert Hourani : an appreciation --The establishment and dismantling of the province of Syria, 1865-1888 / Butrus Abu-Manneh --From consciousness to activism : feminist politics in early twentieth century Egypt / Margot Badran --Continuity in modern Egyptian history : the Wafd and the Muslim Brothers / Marius Deeb --Women and conflict in Lebanon / Leila Fawaz --Nizam ma fi : discourses of order, disorder and history in a Lebanese context / Michael Gilsenan --Taha Husayn : the critical spirit / Ibrahim Ibrahim --Society and ideology in late Ottoman Syria : class, education, profession and confession / Rashid Khalidi --Abd el-Kader and Arab nationalism / Yohn King --The Jewish-Zionist and Arab-Palestinian national communities : the transposing effect of a century of confrontation / Moshe Maʻoz --Revolutionaries, fundamentalists and women : alternative groups in the Arab world / A. …”

Lebanon 1860-1960 a century of myth and politics by Kanaan, Claude Boueiz

State formation and identity in the Middle East and North Africa

Table of Contents: “…/ Sebastian Elsasser -- 7.Religion, Ethnicity, and State Formation in Algeria: "The Berber" As a Category of Contestation / Lisa Watanabe -- 8.The Free Patriotic Movement and Hizbullah Political Entente: A Paradigm Shift in Lebanese Identity and State Formation? / Bouchra Bouyoub…”

The war on Lebanon a reader