The Strangers in the Streets: Hezbollah, the War That Made It, and the Stages of Its Unraveling

The Strangers in the Streets: Hezbollah, the War That Made It, and the Stages of Its Unraveling

In the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as West Beirut struggled not only to absorb the scale of its physical devastation but also to grasp the deeper collapse of the political order that had once given the country a semblance of coherence, something unfamiliar began to emerge from within the fractured landscape. It did not merely resemble the militias that had already come to define the war years.