Hezbollah, lebanon, shia
Description, write an essay on a cultural object from the middle-east, you have to link with the following: Subverting the norms: essays investigating tactics of everyday resistance or full-fledged revolt against authoritarian repression, minor languages, hybrid cultures, cultural objects and practices that challenge gender roles, heteronormativity or orientalist stereotypes. the cultural object to chose is a speech by the Leader of Hizbullah, Nasrallah, wherein he reminisces about how he felt during the war with Israel. Here he links jihadism and shia Islam to the battle of Karbala, one the central themes in Shia Islam. maybe you can use this speech to shed light on a more unknown variant of jihadism, namely Shia jihadism and how the Battle of Karbala helped shape this shia jihadi discourse. How has Hizbollah appropriated the Battle of Karbala in it’s Shiite militant/jihadi discourse. This is the video, please use a quote from this video to illustrate how he mirrors his fight against the Israeli’s to the battle of Karbala. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUSVWNLSkMw

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