سحر التسمية ووهم الخرائط “بناية الأسُود” في بيروت و”وعد” سايكس-بيكو

The Magic of Naming and the Illusion of Maps: "The Lions' Building" in Beirut and the Sykes-Picot "Promise"

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The "Lion Building" has no lions and "Sykes-Picot" is not the partition map — naming is the power of erasure. Naming kills.

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut 1982

During the 1982 siege, Darwish read: "In the name of the fedayeen who created / from a boot, a horizon" — then locked himself in to write "Memory for Forgetfulness": "We only saw our image on Lebanon's polished stone."

رؤوف مسعد عن حصار بيروت

Raouf Massad on the Siege of Beirut

Writer Raouf Massad recalls his memories of the 1982 siege of Beirut, bringing to mind Naji al-Ali, Saadallah Wannous, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and others who shared the experience of resistance and steadfastness.

مدينة في مرفأ – قصة موجزة لبيروت ومرفأها

A City in a Port - A Brief History of Beirut and Its Harbor

The Beirut port explosion reveals the story of the city and its port, and how the latter was central to Beirut's rise, the formation of Greater Lebanon, and the shaping of its economic and political destiny, until it became the almost sole gateway to the Arab interior.

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت صيف ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut, Summer 1982

Days with Darwish in the siege — he read us "Read in the name of the fedayee who created from a boot a horizon." I am a poet, not a fighter.

Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach

The text calls for a critical approach to the concept of the 'public sphere' in the Middle East, emphasizing that democracy requires popular power beyond theoretical debate to confront authoritarianism and the challenges of colonial history.

Beirut-Guernica: A City and a Painting 

Middle East Report (MERIP)

Parallel to Guernica, Beirut shows how besieged cities transform into concentrated laboratories of modern political crisis, where the contradictions and catastrophes of Arab history are condensed into a single image.

بيروت ٢٨ – نون والقلم

Beirut 28 - Nun wal-Qalam

A translation of Etel Adnan's poem on the siege of Beirut 1982: "Name your children Deir Yassin and Sabra and Shatila so we do not forget"—and poets are called to change the world or stay home.