Sunni Muslims

Is Hizballah History? Samuel Helfont, New Republic. A new history of Hizballah lays bare how the self-styled liberation movement has increasingly subjected Lebanon to Syrian and Iranian domination—and alienated its Sunni former allies.

Lebanon’s Unholy Bedfellows Hilal Khashan, Middle East Quarterly. In Lebanon the Maronites are Christian liberals, while the Shiites are Islamic theocrats.  The contradiction hasn’t kept them from an alliance based on resentment of Sunni domination.

Exiled to the Holy Land Oren Kessler, Forward. “It might not be in my lifetime, but there will be a Circassian state. As someone once said, ‘If you will it, it is no dream.’”