A portrait of two women, Zeinab and Khadjie, activists in the Hezbollah, the Islamic Party of God. Filmmaker Maher Abi-Samra returns to the neighborhood of his youth, Ramel el Ali, in Beirut's southern suburb to examine the personal, social and political factors of the women’s commitment. Settled in the 1950's by the mostly Shiite community from the villages of southern Lebanon and the Beka Valley, this community grew on the rubble of the civil war. By the early 1980's it had become one of the strongholds of the Hezbollah, an organization better known in the U.S. for its terrorist activities than the community service it provides to local Arab communities.
For two views of Hezbollah: the official Hezbollah site; the Council on Foreign Relations.
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