عن الماركسية والثورات والمجتمع المدني والطائفية

On Marxism, Revolutions, Civil Society, and Sectarianism

Bidayat

This article interrogates post-Cold War concepts adopted uncritically by the Arab world—from Marxism to the national state, civil society, and sectarianism—calling for a critical vision rooted in Arab reality.

حوار مع فواز طرابلسي عن تجربته الفكرية والثورات وإعادة تأسيس اليسار

A Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi on His Intellectual Experience, Revolutions, and Refounding the Left

Al Jadeed

Fawwaz Traboulsi asserts that the Arab revolutions were radical popular explosions, not social movements, and that the left needs re-founding to confront neoliberalism and sectarianism, which deepen disparities.

دليل ثوار وثوريين العرب

A Guide to Arab Revolutionaries and Rebels

This is not a museum of revolutionaries but a guide to what revolutions teach: independence is not enough, and defeat itself changes the victor.

مقابلة شاملة مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة والحرب في سورية

A Comprehensive Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on Revolution and War in Syria

Bidayat

The Syrian revolution, an expression of a deep crisis, was pushed into civil war by regime violence, yet it remains a revolution with class and sectarian dimensions requiring a clear vision from the Left and opposition.

interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian revolution

An interview (2013): "Syrian revolutionaries owe nobody an apology"—militarization was forced by the regime, and the US seeks to salvage regimes through a military-Islamist assemblage. The opposition must crystallize its vision now.

مداخلة ندوة القاهرة عن «ثورات الكرامة العربية » في الثورة بما هي نقد فكري

Intervention at the Cairo Symposium on "Arab Dignity Revolutions": On Revolution as Intellectual Critique

Revolution as intellectual critique: the Arab revolutions proved Arabs are not an exception to history. "Dignity" is not culture but a material demand — work, bread, freedom.

الثورات في العام الثالث – الشعب لا زال يريد

Revolutions in the Third Year - The People Still Want

As-Safir

Destroying the Iraqi state in the name of "civil society" unleashed not freedom but sectarian demons — every Arab revolution has two wings: modernist and regressive.

حوار موسّع مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة السورية

Extended Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian Revolution

Jadaliyya

Airpower signals the bankruptcy of resolution—"you can destroy but won't control people without the ground."

وأثر التحولات الراهنة في الفكر العربي المعاصر

The Impact of Current Transformations on Contemporary Arab Thought

What blocks understanding is not a lack of cultural explanations but their excess: “culturalism” erases social reality and reduces politics to identity and religion.

Arab Revolution – AUB

The Arab revolutions are directed not only against the present but against the "until now"—the moment when the voiceless make the experts voiceless.

The Left in Time of Revolution

Bidayat

A founding essay in Bidayat: the Arab uprisings are a movement against neoliberalism—"the people want" is popular sovereignty above all others, and "work, freedom, bread" places unemployment at the heart of democracy.

الثورات تسقط الافكار ايضا

Revolutions Bring Down Ideas Too

Al-Akhbar

They predicted the youth would become jihadists — instead they became democrats. Tens of millions in the streets are not a "deficit" but a surplus of democracy.

Revolutions bring down ideas as well!

Heinrich Boll Stiftung

Revolutions do not merely change governments; they shatter the ideologies that made those governments seem permanent and legitimate, and undermine decades of intellectual frameworks that naturalized authoritarian rule.

الثورات تٌسقِط أنظمة الافكار ايضا !

Revolutions Bring Down Systems of Ideas Too!

Al-Akhbar

A quarter-century of "good governance" conferences didn't topple a president — the crowds did it in weeks. Each Saudi prince gets $275,000/month, but The Economist worries about bread subsidies.