Publication

This paper examines the jihadi group, Fatah al-Islam, from a socio-anthropological perspective. It specifically investigates this culture of jihadism in practice during a prolonged siege at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in northern Lebanon. The authors explain that Fatah al-Islam is an appropriated and non-traditional culture which must be defended at all costs by its followers precisely because it is an artificial entity.