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Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr received her PhD from the University of Chicago and is currently a visiting fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). She is the author of Shi‘ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).
Next to the Arab-Israeli conflict, perhaps few other topics in the history of the modern Middle East have captured the interest of policymakers and scholars alike as has post-revolutionary Iranian-Lebanese Shi‘ite relations, particularly the creation of Hizbullah. Although both groups have come to this topic with a set of similar questions — namely, what is the impact of this transnational network among Lebanese Shi‘ites and how does it operate? — thankfully, they have arrived at very different conclusions.
