غزة – فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي

Gaza - Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

From the 1982 Beirut siege to Gaza today, the AI-powered brutality of the occupation is revealed against the backdrop of popular resistance, Arab regime complicity, and an unprecedented surge of global solidarity.

مائة عام على اتفاقية سايكس-بيكو واعلان بلفور

One Hundred Years Since the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration

Conspiracy-seekers hunting for "projects" overlook the declared imperial strategy: the "Global War on Terror" — a real imperial project that needs no quotation marks.

Edward Said in Translation – The personal and the academic

A lecture on translating Said and the friendship: "Your language is convoluted—I plan to deconstruct it and reconstruct in Arabic." Twenty years barred from the US, and emails about Tahiyya Karioka, Cyd Charisse, and Oslo as "the peace of the weak."

وعد بلفور: نظرة جديدة مقالتي اليوم في القدس العربي

The Balfour Declaration: A New Look - My Article Today in Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was less about serving Zionism than it was a British pretext to seize the mandate over Palestine under the guise of minority protection, thereby denying the majority of its inhabitants their political rights.

وعد بلفور – نظرة جديدة

The Balfour Declaration - A New Look

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was not merely a commitment to a national home, but a colonial tool to secure the British Mandate over Palestine and deny the Arab majority its political rights by defining them as "non-Jewish communities".

To What Extent Does the South African Apartheid Model Apply to Palestine?

Journal of Palestine Studies

A translation: the apartheid model does not automatically apply to Palestine—what actually brought it down was resistance strength on the ground and changed US support, and Palestinian go-it-alone is understandable but detrimental without Arab depth.

Mai Masri 3000 nights

An introduction to Mai Masri's film: her films are about women and children not as victims but as resisters—and a child born in prison asks: "What is a bird?"

Breaking with the “National Consensus” – Towards Lebanese-Palestinian Reconciliation

As-Safir

Translation: "I will have no part of the settlement consensus"—it is a fraud manufactured after Taif for scapegoating. Even granting citizenship to all Palestinians would barely change the confessional balance.

We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine

As-Safir

Holocaust denial discourse is "a hallucination obsessed with the West"—the crime was European against Europeans, and Nazi theories ranked Arabs lower than Jews. Better to investigate Israel's crimes than to deny the Holocaust.

Edward Said’s Orientalism revisited: translations and translators

A reading of Said's evolution: from Orientalism to "Imperialism is the export of identity"—warning against self-orientalizing and Occidentalism alike, and admitting his book sometimes relapses into what it critiques.

في نظرات النخب العربية الى المشروع الصهيوني واسرائيل

On Arab Elite Perceptions of the Zionist Project and Israel

As-Safir

Instead of "conspiracy" say "balance of power"; instead of "victim" say "a backward society unable to defend itself" — Yassin al-Hafez against the prevailing Arab view.

Edward Said’s Late Style

Three moments of Said: from critiquing Orientalism to "identity is its owner's creation, not the inheritance of a past"—and reducing imperialism to knowledge/power sanitizes it of occupation and exploitation.

Ahmad uz-Za’tar – A poem by Mahmoud Darwish

Translation: "Let the siege be—my body is the fortress—for I am besieging you"—Darwish's Ahmad uz-Za'tar, translated by Traboulsi.

Zionism and Imperialism in the Middle East

New Left Review

A foundational 1969 paper: the fundamental contradiction combines Zionist colonialism and Western imperialism in one confrontation—and the national and class contradictions condense into one.

Palestine In The “Fatal Triangle”

Chiha reduced Palestine from a "project of planetary domination" to "difficulties"—and for the first and last time, he defended industry.