Lauren Booth

All Hezbollah lacks is a group on Facebook

A tour of Beirut with the militia’s PR division

issue 03 November 2007

A tour of Beirut with the militia’s PR division

Beirut

A year after Israel’s failed attempt to bomb Hezbollah into the Middle Ages, the ‘war’ of 2006 is now known as the ‘Divine Victory’ in these parts. With November’s general election on hold, politics in Lebanon is as complicated as it ever has been.

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