Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, a leading Shi‘i Arab cleric and religious authority, was interviewed in Beirut for our sister publication, Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya (MDF) on 13 November 2001 by Ahmad Khalifah, Khalid ‘Ayid, Saqr Abu Fakhr, and Samir Saras. These excerpts were translated by Joseph Massad.