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Portr­aits & Compan­ionship

Tributes, obituaries, and portraits of thinkers and comrades.

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  • Lebanon, War & Sectarian State (31)
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  • Empire & Regional Order (16)
  • Palestine & Zionism (15)
  • Arab Revolutions (14)
  • The Arab Left (14)
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  • Partition & the Map (7)
  • Translation & Mediation (6)
  • Women & Feminism (4)
Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 2022

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."

Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 2019 As-Safir

في صداقة ادوارد سعيد

On the Friendship of Edward Said

As-Safir

Edward Said's friendship, which began with a political invitation and a hidden intervention to lift a travel ban, spanned decades of intellectual and political struggle, and transcended controversy to reveal the depth of their bond.

Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 2012

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.

Biographies AR Art & Literature History 2012 As-Safir

عبد الرحمن منيف يؤسِّس لأدب الصداقة – والباهي محمد يحلم بالطُوفان

Abdel Rahman Munif Founds a Literature of Friendship - And al-Bahi Muhammad Dreams of the Deluge

As-Safir

The friend alone is chosen — not the comrade, not the brother. Al-Bahi dreamed of a flood: a new Noah filling the earth with justice. Where are you, great Flood?

Prefaces AR Art & Literature History 2011

في أدب الصداقة: المهم هو النور

On the Literature of Friendship: What Matters Is the Light

A new book is a loaf of bread, a manuscript aged wine — Marwan waits for light in Berlin. Spring 2011: Bouazizi fulfilled Hikmet's testament: "If we don't all burn, how will darkness become light?"

Talks & Panels AR History Politics 2006

في القلب، يا بو انيس!

In the Heart, O Abu Anis!

George Hawi the builder — revolution is like the mole, it burrows then returns. His killer couldn't bear his independence.

Talks & Panels AR History Politics 2006 Al-Akhbar

في الذكرى الاولى للرفيق جورج حاوي 

On the First Anniversary of Comrade George Hawi

Al-Akhbar

Whoever killed Hawi was exhausted by his defining trait: independence. The left needs rebuilding — Hawi the inventor, the risk-taker, no change without risk.

Memoirs AR History Politics 2006 As-Safir

سمير قصير، كيف أضعتك؟

Samir Kassir, How Did I Lose You?

As-Safir

"Samir Kassir, how did I lose you?" is a personal elegy that goes beyond physical loss to a political and intellectual estrangement, as "false heirs" attempt to erase Kassir's true legacy by presenting his final years as his entire life.

Memoirs AR Art & Literature 2003

في صداقة عبد الرحمن منيف والباهي محمد وفي طلب الطوفان

On the Friendship of Abdel Rahman Munif and al-Bahi Muhammad, and in Calling for the Deluge

From an encounter between leftists in the Baath Party to Parisian exile, Abdel Rahman Munif's friendship unfolds as a journey of political disillusionment and a conviction that literature is more capable of grasping reality, leading to the call for a "flood."

Talks & Panels AR Art & Literature 2003

عبد الرحمن منيف ينادي الطوفان*

Abdel Rahman Munif Calls for the Deluge

In "Land of Darkness," a project of alternative national modernity. From al-Bahi's testament: "The flood comes and everything becomes possible, and impossible is deleted from the dictionary."

Talks & Panels AR Art & Literature 2003

في صداقة عبد الرحمن منيف والباهي محمد

On the Friendship of Abdel Rahman Munif and al-Bahi Muhammad

Mut'ab al-Hazzal, ghost hovering over oil fields — has a real-life double: the paramount sheikh of Anizah, arrested by the US army in Iraq. Life invents its own novelistic narrative.

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