In a room not more than two square meters, a small black-and-white television is perched uncertainly on top of a refrigerator, a cable running through the corrugated tin roof. In this small baqala, shelves stacked with tins of milk, dry biscuits, and crates of eggs, six men sit around a large …

From its humble pre-satellite origins in 1991, al-Manar (The Beacon) has been a television station driven first and foremost by the priorities of the Islamic Resistance, the armed wing of Hizbullah. Since the end of the civil war and the signing of the Ta'if Accord, Hizbullah has undergone a transformation, …