recommended resources on Lebanese resistance and its context
this has been in my drafts for a long time bc I wanted to find more audio resources but in light of recent events I'm posting as is, and will add more later. pdfs for texts without links can be found on libgen
⭐ = start with these
📺 = video resource
🎧 = audio resource
Hizballah
⭐ Lara Deeb, "Hizballah and Its Civilian Constituencies," in The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
⭐🎧 Electronic Intifada Podcast with Rania Khalek, "Why Hizballah would deal Israel a deadly blow" (2024)
⭐🎧 Electronic Intifada Podcast with Amal Saad, "How Hizballah Aims to Deter Israel" (2024)
📺 Rania Khalek, Interview with Hezbollah's Second-in-Command Sheikh Naim Qassem (2023)
🎧 Rania Khalek and Julia Kassem, "The Hybrid War on Lebanon is All About Weakening Hezbollah" (2022)
Hassan Nasrallah, "Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah," ed. Nicholas Noe (2007)
Judith Harik, "Hizballah's Public and Social Services and Iran," in Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years (2006)
Sarah Marusek, Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon (2018)
Abed T. Kanaaneh, Understanding Hezbollah: The Hegemony of Resistance (2021)
Karim Makdisi, "The Oct. 8 War: Lebanon's Southern Front" (2024)
Political theory
⭐ Ussama Makdisi, "Understanding Sectarianism," in The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
⭐ Rula Juri Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 (2010)
Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael, The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon (1998)
2006 war
⭐ Gilbert Achcar and Michel Warschawski, The 33-Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences (2007)
The Electronic Intifada with Dahr Jamail, "The world just sat by" (2006)
The Electronic Intifada with Bilal El-Amine, "Lebanon in Context" (2006)
The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
Civil war and 1982 invasion
⭐📺 Up to the South, dir. Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra'ad (1993)
⭐📺 Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon, dir. Mai Masri and Jean Khalil Chamoun (1987)
⭐ Souha Bechara, Resistance: My Life for Lebanon (2003)
Jean Said Makdisi, Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (1990)
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila, September 1982 (2004)
Ottoman era
Charles Al-Hayek, "How, then, did you try to rebel?"
Lebanon Unsettled, "Lebanon's Popular Uprisings"
Axel Havemann, "The Impact of Peasant Resistance on Nineteenth Century Mount Lebanon," in Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East (1991)
Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (2000)
Peter Hill, "How Global was the Age of Revolutions? The Case of Mount Lebanon, 1821" (2020)
Mark Farha, "From Anti-imperial Dissent to National Consent: the First World War and the Formation of a Trans-sectarian National Consciousness in Lebanon" (2015)
French mandate era
⭐ Kais Firro, Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate (2002)
Sana Tannoury-Karam, "Founding the Lebanese Left: From Colonial Rule to Independence" (2021)
Idir Ouahes, Syria and Lebanon Under the French Mandate: Cultural Imperialism and the Workings of Empire (2018)
Malek Abisaab, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (2009)
Misc
⭐📺 Leila and the Wolves, dir. Heiny Srour and Sabah Jabbour (1984)
⭐ Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon (2007)
Karim Makdisi, "Lebanon's October 2019 Uprising" (2021)
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