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Hezbollah

Under the spotlight. Fighters from the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement take part in a military parade marking the party’s Martyrs’ Day in the eastern Bekaa Valley city of Baalbek, November 12 (AFP)

Book offers unprecedented detail on Hezbollah’s structure

ISIS

From women’s perspective. Azadeh Moaveni with the women of ISIS. (Courtesy of Azadeh Moaveni)

Taking a new look at women of ISIS

Karen Dabrowska

Arab

A focus on sculpture. From Reem Najjar’s book “Qassida.” (Raya Al-Jadir)

Equipping Arab children with the tools of art

Iran

A man with a mission. Veteran media executive and debutant memoirist Mohammad Sarafraz.(Courtesy of Mohammad Sarafraz)

Blame Khamenei: Memoirs of a media executive

Charlie Hebdo

Cover of John Tolan’s “Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today.”

How the West’s depiction of Prophet Mohammad has come a full circle

culture

A customer browses books at a bookshop in the Moroccan capital Rabat on August 9, 2018. (AFP)

Neglecting translation stunts Arab intercultural outreach

Hassan Ouazzani

This is Not Propaganda

Overabundance of information comes with global problems

US

Nigerian special forces and Chadian troops participate with US advisors in the Flintlock exercise in Mao, Chad. (AP)

Is the fight against extremism winnable?

Assad

Unknown insights. Cover of Sam Dagher’s new book “Assad Or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria.”

New book reveals unknown details about how Assad prevailed in Syria