
A coming-of-age ceremony for Mahdi and Emdad school students at which the Vice Chair of Hezbollah’s Executive Council gave a speech extolling Hezbollah’s Secretary General, “the gentleman of the Arabs… Hassan Nasrallah,” and “the sacrifices of the mujahideen and martyrs.” The event included Mahdi Scouts playing Hezbollah’s anthem and the Lebanese national anthem, a Hezbollah flag, a microphone for Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV station, and was held in a school auditorium named after a teenage suicide bomber.[1]