A woman holds a portrait of Hassan Nasrallah during the funeral of the former Hezbollah leader on Feb. 23, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine)
"So, where is the much-anticipated storm?" Ali asked on the morning of Feb. 23, as he drove up the Hafez al-Assad highway toward Sports City in the southern suburbs of Beirut, his eyes squinting in the sun. "They wanted to scare us so we wouldn't come to the Sayyed's funeral with their stories of rain," replied a woman with a yellow headband, the color of Hezbollah. "They don't know that nothing makes us bend!" added the 23-year-old, referencing a famous slogan of the Islamic resistance embodied for four decades by the charismatic Hassan Nasrallah.The crowd gathered for the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah at the Sports City, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on February 23. Photo by Mohammad Yassine. This supporter of Hezbollah would not have missed the funeral of the charismatic leader, five months after his death on Sept. 27 in a massive...
"So, where is the much-anticipated storm?" Ali asked on the morning of Feb. 23, as he drove up the Hafez al-Assad highway toward Sports City in the southern suburbs of Beirut, his eyes squinting in the sun. "They wanted to scare us so we wouldn't come to the Sayyed's funeral with their stories of rain," replied a woman with a yellow headband, the color of Hezbollah. "They don't know that nothing makes us bend!" added the 23-year-old, referencing a famous slogan of the Islamic resistance embodied for four decades by the charismatic Hassan Nasrallah.The crowd gathered for the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah at the Sports City, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on February 23. Photo by Mohammad Yassine. This supporter of Hezbollah would not have missed the funeral of the charismatic leader, five months after his death on Sept. 27 in a...
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