جبال الصوان: فلسطين في فن فيروز والرحابنة

Mountains of Flint: Palestine in the Art of Fairuz and the Rahbanis

الكرمل

What the Palestinians did not make for themselves, the Rahbanis made — Mahmoud Darwish's testimony.

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.

قصة دراسة عن فلسطين

The Story of a Study on Palestine

New Left Review

The study was published first; decades later its thesis returned without acknowledgment. That is what the European Left's blind spot on Palestine looks like.

عن الأندلس وحرب العراق وقانارسائل إلى إيتل عدنان

On Al-Andalus, the Iraq War, and Qana - Letters to Etel Adnan

An-Nahar

From Granada to Cana: "blood turned into... blood." Samaha mutters "Why?" then: "What a stupid question!"

هل يكون “الكازينو الدولي” بديلاً من العدالة الاجتماعية؟

Could the "International Casino" Replace Social Justice?

Bidayat

Can the "global casino" replace social justice? This piece critiques Friedrich von Hayek's neoliberal ideas and calls on the Arab left to reclaim the concepts of justice and equal opportunity it abandoned.

Modern Arab Feminism

Arab women's rights are the first concession to fundamentalism—and since 1929, Nazirah Zayn al-Din's question stands: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute for the kingdoms you have lost?"

عن الاندلس وحرب العراق وقانا – رسائل الى اتيل عدنان

On Al-Andalus, the Iraq War, and Qana - Letters to Etel Adnan

An-Nahar

A surgical "error" of terrifying precision killed 108 in Qana — Joseph Samaha walks out of the mass grave: "Why?" Then: "What a stupid question!"

An Intelligent Man’s Guide to Modern Arab Feminism

Al-Shidyaq saw the repression of female instinct as the foundation of male domination—and Nazirah Zayn al-Din asked: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute kingdom for the kingdoms you have lost?"

Feminizing Politics

Al-Raida

Feminizing politics is not numerical representation but freeing politics from the patriarchy that produces authoritarianism—and the intellectual construction of Arab feminism remains an unfinished project.

Arab Democracy and New Geo-Strategic Realities

The Washington Papers

Has the West tried to impose democracy on us?—No. It exported modernization, not democracy, and always backed authoritarianism. The 1949 Zaim coup was about oil and Israel, not the Cold War.

الرسولة بشعرها الطويل وحكايتها الغريبة

The Long-Haired Messenger and Her Strange Tale

الكاتبة

Fairuz is not only voice: she is the intermediary who closes every Rahbani play.

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.

حال الديمقراطيين العرب: جار الله عمر مثالا

The Condition of Arab Democrats: Jarallah Omar as an Example

He called on religious and secular opposition to work together — then the killer stepped forward and shot him in the chest, believing he was shooting at those goals.

Cruelty and silence in perspective – on Kanan Makiya’s book

Makiya cuts quotes to prove a uniquely Arab "cruelty"—while he himself worked for Saddam's regime: "somebody had to do it."

Renverser Saddam Hussein ou démembrer l’Irak?

Overthrowing Saddam Hussein or Dismembering Iraq?

Le Monde diplomatique

Saddam survived because Bush wanted to replace one dictator with another, not a popular uprising—and the real question is: topple him or dismember Iraq?

جولة في تلك السنوات

A Tour Through Those Years

فراديس

A generation that turned the public event into a private one, and experience into a laboratory of knowledge — and paid dearly for it.

Lebanon in the Middle East Peace Talks: Player or Bargaining Card?

The Oxford International Review

Lebanon between the Syrian-Israeli "condominium": player in the peace talks or bargaining card? Ghazi Kanaan: "Let the Lebanese trade and leave politics to the Syrians."

Crisis and Memory – in the Theatre of the Rahbani Brothers and Fayrouz

Jisr al-Qamar manufactures forgetfulness by miracle; Petra recasts civil war as liberation—and the erased question is the same: where does the conflict come from?

Des bons et mauvais usages du modèle suisse

On the Good and Bad Uses of the Swiss Model

Switzerland of the Orient is a French colonial invention selectively applied—banking without industry, neutrality without an army, federalism only to justify cantons—revealing ideological distortions, not resemblances.

Les transformations des structures tribales depuis l’indépendance du Yémen du Sud

Transformations of Tribal Structures Since South Yemen's Independence

A Marxism that never studied its own social formation: tribal structures in South Yemen did not disappear under "classist" discourse but operated clandestinely until they exploded in January 1986.

محمد بلعيدي: شهيد عربي دفاعاً عن الجمهورية الاسبانية

Muhammad Belaidi: An Arab Martyr in Defense of the Spanish Republic

When I heard Arabs fought for Franco, I said: I must do something — what will they say about Arabs? A Spanish woman raised her fist over the Arab's coffin.

تقديم: الملصقات بوصفها أسلحة

Introduction: Posters as Weapons

You can only forget what you know — a tank driver in Basra aimed at a Saddam portrait and sparked an uprising. Posters are weapons.

جون برجر

John Berger

In an elegy for John Berger, the author recalls a friendship and a teacher who changed his view of the world, teaching the eye to read the beautiful and the hidden, and how to struggle against 'the great defeat of the world' by drawing inspiration from Palestinian steadfastness.

Democracy and Arab Nationalism – SOAS

SOAS

Arab nationalism is not the antithesis of democracy—and "defenders of authenticity" import everything Western except what is progressive. The Iraqi people were punished thrice: by war, betrayal, and blockade.