Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of its 2022 study titled “Hezbollahland: Mapping Dahiya and Lebanon’s Shia Community.”

Hezbollah Will Not Yield Lebanon

[caption id="attachment_55255084" align="aligncenter" width="5724"] Young female supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite movement hold a giant…

Lebanon's Elections: Democracy at Risk

[caption id="attachment_55255277" align="aligncenter" width="2606"] A portrait of the head of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah…

Did Khomeini Kidnap Moussa Al-Sadr?

[caption id="attachment_55255521" align="aligncenter" width="585"] Imam Musa al-Sadr[/caption] by Hanin Ghaddar Last month, a former Iranian…

The Houthis: A Yemeni Hezbollah?

[caption id="attachment_55254799" align="aligncenter" width="2506"] Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels shout slogans during a gathering to mobilise more…