Publics, Politics and Participation

Alagha 459 (the current secretary general) and Sayyid Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyid (the current head of Hizbullah’s Political Council) ...

460 Resisting Publics northeast); and economic and social capital (through social welfare insti- tutions targeting only the Shi’ ...

Alagha 461 Phase II: Infitāh. As the 1990s unfolded, Hizbullah continued to promote its Islamic iden- tity and agenda, now howev ...

462 Resisting Publics At the same time, Hizbullah continued gradually integrating into the new national public sphere emerging a ...

Alagha 463 wider following. Hizbullah seems to have learned from the Iranian expe- rience, as well as from the internal dynamics ...

464 Resisting Publics in an attempt to reconcile, as much as possible, its principles, aims, and political ideology, on the one ...

Alagha 465 s part of its A intifāh. program, Hizbullah tried to portray itself as a promoter of Muslim-Christian coexistence, st ...

466 Resisting Publics two main political groups. The “8 March Group”—comprising Hizbullah, Amal, and other pro-Syrian groups, th ...

Alagha 467 four-partite alliance with Future Trend, Amal, and the Progressive Socialist Party. Future Trend and its allies won 7 ...

468 Resisting Publics ultimately for a period of seven weeks. Only after Prime Minister Sanyura reiterated Hizbullah’s right to ...

Alagha 469 the evening of 1 June 2006, LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting On Corporation International) aired its weekly political sati ...

470 Resisting Publics raid. Hizbullah’s strategic mistake was not anticipating that such an action would spark a large-scale con ...

Alagha 471 was asserting that accepting the deployment—which had been a repeated Israeli demand—and agreeing to the terms of UNS ...

472 Resisting Publics of legislative elections based upon a more representative election law that all Lebanese could agree upon, ...

Alagha 473 making unfounded accusations about the prime minister that were tan- tamount to branding him with treason. MP Pierre ...

474 Resisting Publics espite the upheaval, Hizbullah failed to deliver on its promise of D a fast government collapse,^57 and be ...

Alagha 475 al-Musawi, Hizbullah’s foreign relations officer and member of its Political Council.^61 On the same day, Nasrallah a ...

476 Resisting Publics n his 17 August Friday prayer speech, Ayatullah Fadlallah, a prom- I inent Shi‘i cleric, warned that the p ...

Alagha 477 to its disintegration, as was the case during the civil war.) The Hizbullah- led opposition waged a campaign of civil ...

478 Resisting Publics lthough Hizbullah’s “despised” Prime Minister Sanyura headed A the new cabinet, Hizbullah had obtained, by ...