أزمة الانفجار وانفجار الازمات اللبنانية

The Explosion Crisis and the Explosion of Lebanese Crises

Bidayat

The Beirut explosion, a "crime of negligence," laid bare a system of corruption and unaccountability, whose repercussions are now escalating into political, economic, and sovereign crises.

شهادة في فكر – انطونيو غرامشي

Testimony on the Thought of Antonio Gramsci

They wanted to stop his mind for twenty years — Gramsci produced in prison the theory of "hegemony": ruling-class ideas become "common sense," and law is "the silent force" of coercion.

ماذا يستطيع الحراك؟ جدل المتخيّل والضروري

What Can the Movement Do? The Dialectic of the Imagined and the Necessary

Bidayat

The Hirak faces a paradox between the dream of radical change and the necessity of resisting the crisis; if it keeps demanding the impossible without achieving the necessary, it will fail to secure the rights of the popular majority.

من يوميّات الحراك الشعبي

From the Diaries of the Popular Movement

Bidayat

The October 17 uprising erupted as popular anger against a corrupt ruling class, but it is threatened with co-optation or suppression unless it organizes itself and adopts clear demands to confront austerity plans and overcome sectarianism.

مذكرات جارالله عمر

The Memoirs of Jarallah Omar

How could he support one-party rule in the South while fighting to overthrow it in the North? He opposed both war and secession — both sides called him traitor, then assassinated him.

تأملات كورونيالية – قابيل، انكيدو وجورج حاتم

Coronial Reflections - Cain, Enkidu, and George Hatem

When humans domesticated animals, animals retaliated with plague — Enkidu was humanized through woman but died incomplete. In the 21st century, the savage is entirely human.

علاء الدين العالم – محاورة فوّاز طرابلسي

Alaa al-Din al-Alem - A Conversation with Fawwaz Traboulsi

The October 2019 uprising is a historic break with the post-war neoliberal 'reconstruction' system, facing the challenge of building independent leadership to resist austerity and hold the corrupt accountable.

من سويسرا الشرق إلى هانوي العرب تاريخ مختصر لصورة بيروت

From the Switzerland of the East to the Hanoi of the Arabs: A Brief History of Beirut's Image

Bidayat

Beirut, port for assembling cities — from "Switzerland of the East" to "Hanoi of the Arabs": every image has its political and class context.

الثورة السلمية في عظمتها وحدودها

The Peaceful Revolution in Its Greatness and Its Limits

Bidayat

The Sudanese peaceful revolution succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship and imposing a partnership with the military, but it faces major challenges in holding perpetrators accountable and securing genuine civilian authority over the army and security forces.

في صداقة إدوارد سعيد | القدس العربي

On the Friendship of Edward Said | Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

It began in Dhofar and did not end with “late style”: a friendship that opened onto talent, grace, and commitment.

يوسف عبدلكي والتفاصيل المشاغِبة    

Youssef Abdelke and the Rebellious Details

An engraving looks like passion until the details reveal rape — the title: "The Director General." His grotesques try to match the super-grotesqueness of our "reality."

السودان، الجزائر، إلخ. استئناف البدايات

Sudan, Algeria, Etc.: Resuming the Beginnings

Bidayat

The popular movements in Sudan and Algeria represent a resumption of the 2011 uprisings, posing the challenge of achieving genuine change that expresses the will of the people in the face of authoritarian regimes and the interference of old and external powers.

مقالات عن سورية ولبنان، ١٨٦٠

Articles on Syria and Lebanon, 1860

Bidayat

Translation: Marx in 1860 reveals great-power horse-trading over Syria's corpse — but neglects the internal causes: the collapse of the muqata'ji system and peasant uprisings.

مذكرات جورج بطل ٣ فرج الله حلو في موقفه الجريء وعزله واستشهاده

The Memoirs of George al-Batal 3: Farajallah al-Helou in His Courageous Stance, His Isolation, and His Martyrdom

Bidayat

I am Farajallah Helou, there is no other responsible person — his last words before torture killed him and acid dissolved his body. Heikal denied he ever existed.

تصوّرات عربيّة لاتفاقيّة سايكس-پيكو الوحدة المقدّسة ورُهاب التقسيم

Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement: Sacred Unity and the Phobia of Partition

Bidayat

A century later, Sykes-Picot has become a myth explaining every division and foretelling the next, married with the Balfour Declaration, where all plurality is condemned as a violation of unity and 'fitna' attributed to external 'projects.'

ماركس في «ربيع الشعوب» ١٨٤٨ بناء الحقل السياسي والتعلّم من الممارسة

Marx in the "Spring of Nations" 1848: Building the Political Field and Learning from Practice

Bidayat

Marx's engagement with the 1848 revolutions refined his understanding of class representation and the state, leading him to view socialism as the necessary completion of political democracy to resolve the contradiction between political and social inequality.

مقابلة الثقافة الجديدة

Al-Thaqafa al-Jadida Interview

Ath-Thaqafa Al-Jadida

An intellectual and political journey that never separated struggle from writing, offering critical revisions of civil war experiences and the challenges of the Left, and reaffirming Marxism as a reference for understanding contemporary capitalism.

في خصخصة الجيوش الوطنية

On the Privatization of National Armies

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The privatization of national armies in the confrontation states is the price for suppressing peoples and militarizing their issues, leading to the systematic dismantlement of their role in national defense.

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.

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.

ظفار: شهادة من زمن الثورة – مقدمة الطبعة الثانية

Dhofar: Testimony from the Time of Revolution - Second Edition Preface

In the preface to the second edition of "Dhofar," the author returns to the region decades later, witnessing its transformations and meeting former comrades who assert their revolution prompted official attention, hoping to keep its memory alive.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: من الترجمة الى التعريب

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: From Translation to Arabization

Translation is a struggle to make a foreign text authentically Arabic, not just a transfer of words, by disassembling and reassembling the original so it reads as if written in Arabic, which is the essence of "ta'rib."

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.

فوّاز طرابلسي: حضور سايكس ـ بيكو فاعل في الثقافة السياسية العربية

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Sykes-Picot Remains Active in Arab Political Culture

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Sykes-Picot became predetermined fate whitewashing rulers—but current borders don't even match its map.