Joseph Daher was interviewed about his book Hezbollah - The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (published by Pluto Press, London in October 2016) on the occasion of a visit to Berlin to speak about it.
Noël van den Heuvel – You have just written a book about Hezbollah. Why, in your (...)
Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian socialist activist, academic, and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is the author of Hezbollah: Political Economy of the Party of God, Pluto Press, London, 2016 (distributed in the US by Univeristy of Chicago Press) and (with John Rees) of “The People (...)
Hezbollah’s record shows that the party’s interests are more aligned with elites than with workers.
Though its reputation has waned in recent years, Hezbollah has long earned plaudits from the Left for its military resistance to Israel. Many, too, have pointed to its provision of social services (...)
Last year’s huge demonstrations over the garbage collection crisis in Lebanon have led to an electoral breakthrough.
In summer 2015, the streets of Beirut saw another expression of the Arab uprisings that have swept across the Middle East and North Africa since early 2011. Tens of thousands of (...)
“Secularism, equality and social justice” Placard of the progressive coalition “The People Want”
Lebanon had experienced some major protests in early 2011 against the sectarian regime following the regional popular uprisings, but the movement unfortunately ended a few months later, especially (...)
We the undersigned groups and individuals in the Middle East and North Africa stand in solidarity with the ongoing protests across the U.S., led by Black communities, following thekilling of Mike Brown by officer Darren Wilson and the decision by a Grand Jurythat Wilson is innocent of any (...)
“WE DO NOT like prisons, but they do not scare us,” says Mahienour al-Masry, Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist who was serving a three year prison sentence for violating anti-protest laws before her recent release.
In the latest of numerous campaigns seeking justice within the Egyptian (...)
One of Gabriel García Márquez’s novels is called Chronicle of a Death Foretold. And sometimes deaths are like that—however painful, they are expected and perhaps (though not in the case of the García Márquez story) mark the conclusion of a fulfilled life.
But sometimes a death leaves you quite (...)
On August 2nd, 2011 a sit-in was called in-front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut at 8:00 pm in support of the syrian revolution. Around 50 independent activist and leftist gathered at the embassy, in 10 minutes time, groups of pro-Assad supporters – which included members of the Syrian Baath (...)
The Tasks of the Arab Left during the Current Social Revolutions and the Steps for the Confrontation of the Imperial-Israeli Assault
The Arab Left Forum met in Beirut on the 18th and 19th of February, in response to a call by the Lebanese Communist Party to hold an exceptional meeting of the (...)
Beirut, the 2d of February 2011
To Comrades
Representatives of Communist and Workers’ Parties
Dictator Hosni Mubarak has committed a new massacre, this evening, against Egyptian people.
The police forces of this dictator seized the buildings around the Liberation Place, in Cairo center and (...)
Hundreds of civil society activists have marched on the Lebanese parliament in an unprecedented rally in Beirut.Protesters responded to a campaign on social networking websites.
The protesters are calling on all Lebanese to help bring an end to the country’s divisive sectarian system and (...)
1) After the recent events, the situation today seems to confirm the victory of Hezbollah and its allies in the “first round.” What do you think?
What happened is very clearly that a change in the balance of forces that until now had remained hidden has now become explicit. Hezbollah and its (...)
“We have received only a lot of promises and some ammunition but no equipment, as if they are telling us: Die first and back-up will arrive later.”
Lebanese army head general Michael Sulieman on US support during the summer-long Nahr al-Bared refugee camp battle
Since Israel’s July 2006 war on (...)
Back in the fall of 2006, student elections at the American University of Beirut produced an unexpected aesthetic: female campaigners for the predominantly Christian Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) of the ex-general Michel Aoun sporting button-sized portraits of bearded Hizballah leader Hasan (...)
Islamist militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon are facing an ultimatum to surrender or face further military action. The Lebanese government accuses Fatah al-Islam of having ties with al-Qaeda and the Syrian government. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins us to (...)
This week’s battle between the Lebanese army and Fatah Al-Islam raises murky questions about the government’s relation to radical Sunni groups, Lucy Fielder reports
It all sounded wearily familiar. On Sunday, at the start of the worst internal violence since the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1990, (...)
Wearing a beat-up ratty UNCHR tee-shirt left over from Bint Jbeil and the Israeli-Hezbollah July probably helped. As did, I suspect, the Red Cross jersey, my black and white checkered kaffieyh and the Palestinian flag taped to my lapel as I joined a group of Palestinian aid workers and slipped (...)
Oil-rich Saudis and other wealthy Arabs have increased private contributions to Sunni militants in Lebanon that could fuel new violence in a growing regional struggle between Sunnis and Shi’ites, experts say.
The latest flow of money began in December in an attempt to create a counterweight to (...)
The only thing left is for dirt barricades to go up between neighborhoods, as in the past, and for our identity to be hijacked once again. Why not? This week, all types of “armed appearances” spread throughout our streets and cities with extraordinary ease, even reaching Lebanon. The younger (...)
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