Radio War Nerd EP #92* [REPOST]—2006 Hezbollah-Israel War, with Amal Saad
Guest: Amal Saad, author & professor
* Originally posted July 12, 2017
Reposting the War Nerd's interview with Hezbollah scholar Amal Saad, author of "Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion" and professor of political science at the Lebanese University in Beirut — recorded on the 11th anniversary of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah is perhaps the most powerful resistance movement in the world, and it remains a mystery to outsiders in the West. Hezbollah's victory in the 2006 war shocked Israel, the US and the world. We discuss the war, its effect on Lebanon politics, Hezbollah's role in the Syria and how it's helped or hurt them, and the history and politics of Hezbollah...
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Comments (5)
Phenomenonal interview! Just ordered her book very excited to read it
Really appreciated this episode. I read her (first) book and found it very enlightening. Excited to get ahold of the "post-resistance" one. So hard to find trustworthy /and/ readable English writing on Hezbollah
Thanks. Yes, Amal is someone we're very proud to have had on the show. We hope to have her back soon.
Great episode. More like this.
Great episode. The sorta "leftist" shia ethos reminds me of this one state department cable from clinton herself in '09 to the venezuelan embassy about Hezbollah and Iran's "INCREASE[d] TIES TO LEFTIST COUNTRIES IN THE REGION THAT TEHRAN PERCEIVES MAY SHARE ITS ANTI-US AGENDA." <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE6423_a.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE6423_a.html</a>