he has made from the mid-1980s to the present day. Newly translated from the Arabic, and with an introduction by one of the foremost writers on Lebanon, "Voice of Hezbollah" is a crucial contribution to the understanding of the man and the movement.

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Nicholas Noe is founder and editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based news translation service mideastwire.com. He was previously a news editor on the Lebanon Daily StarlHerald Tribune, and has written for numerous regional and international publications. Nicholas Blanford is Beirut correspondent for The Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Lebanon Daily Star. He is the author of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the Middle East. Ellen Khouri is a consultant on human rights and democracy, and managing director ofST KILDA will consider challenging the two-game suspension handed to defender Jimmy Webster for his thumb to the eye of Fremantle midfielder Nick Suban during the second quarter on Sunday.

The Match Review Panel on Monday deemed Webster made "unreasonable and unnecessary contact" to Suban's eye, assessing the incident as intentional conduct with medium impact to the head.

Slow-motion replays captured Webster first making contact with Suban's ear region before he reached over again using his right thumb to poke the Docker's left eye, which forced his opponent to ground.

The MRP applied a three-match suspension with an early guilty plea reducing it to two games.

Saints coach Alan Richardson did not rule out contesting Webster's eye-gouge ban.

"As soon as you put your hands into anyone's face, you're asking for trouble," Richardson