Joseph Alagha

The purpose of Augustus Richard Norton’s book— authored by the co-editor of the “Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics” series—“is to offer a more balanced and nuanced account of this complex organization [Hizbullah]... an honest account of the leading Shi‘i political party in Lebanon— Hezbollah” (pp. 8, 198). In spite of that, there seems to be nothing fundamentally new in Norton’s book.