Book Review: Joseph Daher Examines the Political Economy of Hezbollah

Drawing on archives, public records, and interviews, Daher goes beyond ideology to chart the group’s development, ultimately challenging its mythos as a resistance actor on behalf of the oppressed.

by Alexander Schinis

The Lebanese group, Hezbollah, is militant, Islamist, and portrays itself in terms of various dichotomies: resistance versus oppression, Islamic morality versus corrupt secularism, and so on. Since Hezbollah’s establishment in 1985, many analyses of the group have focused on these ideological underpinnings. Assessments based only on …