Sole-authored
2025
Letters and Lines
Al-Mutawassit; Milan
Sole-authored
2023
The Time of the New Left: Portrait of the Boy in Red
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2023
A History of Modern Lebanon (Sixth Arabic Printing)
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2019
If You Want to Love: Writings on Popular Culture (Second Edition)
Al-Mutawassit; Milan
Sole-authored
2018
Sykes-Picot-Balfour: Beyond the Maps
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2017
Silk and Iron: From Mount Lebanon to the Suez Canal (French Edition)
Sindbad / Actes Sud / L'Orient des Livres
Sole-authored
2016
The Blood of Brothers: Violence in Civil Wars
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2015
South Yemen under Left Rule: A Personal Testimony
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2015
Social Classes and Political Power in Lebanon
Dar al-Saqi; Beirut
Sole-authored
2014
Revolutions without Revolutionaries: The Fates of the Arab Spring
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2013
Silk and Iron: From Mount Lebanon to the Suez Canal
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2012
Democracy Is Revolution
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2012
Wednesday Talks
Dar al-Farabi / Kitab al-Safir; Beirut
Sole-authored
2012
A History of Modern Lebanon (Second Edition)
Pluto Press; London
Sole-authored
2009
From Other Angles
Dar al-Farabi; Beirut
Sole-authored
2008
A History of Modern Lebanon (First Arabic Edition)
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2007
A History of Modern Lebanon (First Edition)
Pluto Press; London
Sole-authored
2006
Fairouz and the Rahbanis: The Theater of the Stranger, the Treasure, and the Miracle
Dar Riyad El-Rayyes; Beirut
Sole-authored
2004
Dhofar: Testimony from the Time of Revolution
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2004
If You Want to Love: Writings on Popular Culture (First Edition)
Dar al-Kunuz al-Adabiyya; Beirut
Sole-authored
2004
O Moon of Mashghara: Patronage, Economy, and Sectarian Balance
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2002
Against the Flow: Miscellaneous Writings
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
2000
The Promises of Aden: Yemeni Travels
Riyad El-Rayyes Books; Beirut
Sole-authored
1999
Connections without Linkage: Michel Chiha and Lebanese Ideology
Dar Riyad El-Rayyes; Beirut
Sole-authored
1997
Portrait of the Boy in Red: Days in Peace and War
Dar Riyad El-Rayyes; Beirut
Sole-authored
1987
Guernica-Beirut: Art and Life between Picasso's Mural and an Arab City at War
Al-Karmel / Arab Institute for Research and Publishing; Beirut / Nicosia
Sole-authored
1985
Marxism and Some of Our Arab Questions
Beirut al-Masa'; Beirut
Sole-authored
1984
About a Hope with No Cure: Diaries of the Siege of Beirut, 1982
Arab Research Foundation; revised edition: Dar Riyad El-Rayyes; Beirut
Sole-authored
1978
The National and Democratic Question of Lebanon
Dar al-Tali'a; Beirut
Sole-authored
1972
Dhofar: Testimonies from the Time of Revolution
Socialist Stories (series)