Posted in Hezbollah, Lebanon, Matthew Levitt, United Kingdom on Mar 22nd, 2009 Comments Off on Hezbollah: narco-Islamism
From Matthew Levitt Earlier this month, the United Kingdom announced that it is reopening dialogue with the political wing of Hezbollah. Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom has only banned Hezbollah’s terrorist (External Security Organization) and military wings. The ban on the terrorist wing came in 2000, while the ban on the military wing […]
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Posted in Arab Gulf, Books, Iran, United Kingdom on Aug 19th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘American Ascendance and British Retreat’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. W. Taylor Fain is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His new book is American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian […]
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Posted in Books, Counterinsurgency, Iraq, United Kingdom on May 8th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Spies in Arabia’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Priya Satia is assistant professor of modern British history at Stanford University. Her new book is Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s […]
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