Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, edited by Nicholas Noe. Texts translated by Ellen Khouri. Introduction by Nicholas Blandford. London: Verso, 2007. ix + 2 maps + 410 pages. Further reading to p. 415. Index to p. 420. $19.95 paper.

Joseph Alagha, associate professor of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, is the author of The Shifts in Hizbullah’s Ideology (Amsterdam University Press, 2006).