لبنان البدايات في سيرة مثقف حداثي — مراجعة كتاب جاد تابت

Lebanon's Beginnings in the Biography of a Modernist Intellectual - A Review of Jad Tabet's Book

Tripoli was annexed to Greater Lebanon to prevent it becoming Syria's port — it remains the poorest city on the Mediterranean.

رؤوف مسعد عن حصار بيروت

Raouf Massad on the Siege of Beirut

Writer Raouf Massad recalls his memories of the 1982 siege of Beirut, bringing to mind Naji al-Ali, Saadallah Wannous, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and others who shared the experience of resistance and steadfastness.

قراءة في كتاب«جنوب اليمن في حكم اليسار- شهادة شخصية»

A Reading of the Book "South Yemen Under Leftist Rule - A Personal Testimony"

As-Safir

A critical review praises the book "South Yemen Under Left Rule," which objectively analyzes the leftist governance experience in the South, free from dogmatism, highlighting its grim conflicts and national achievements.

ماركس غسان الرفاعي – هل العودة الى النص الاصلي تجديد أم تجميد؟

Ghassan al-Rifai's Marx - Is Returning to the Original Text Renewal or Freezing?

Bidayat

Return to Marx as fundamentalism: if the text were timeless it wouldn't need 150 years of interpreters — and the Soviet experience was dictatorship, not "underdeveloped democracy."

إدوارد سعيد في «الأسلوب المتأخر» الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style": Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

Lateness is not maturity but "intransigence and unresolved contradiction" — Said concludes with the method of impudence, and with Genet declares imperialism the exportation of identities.

تيم ميتشيل عن الريع

Timothy Mitchell on Rent

Bidayat

Exploitation happens not only in production but in the market — the answer to rent isn't "production" but progressive taxation.

بيت المنازل الكثيرة – لا يتأسس على الثقافة وحدها

A House of Many Mansions - Is Not Built on Culture Alone

Review: Salibi demolishes all of Lebanon's founding myths — then replaces them with a new "cultural uniqueness." Must Lebanon invent a new distinctiveness after every catastrophe just to survive?

ادوارد سعيد في «الاسلوب المتأخر» – الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style" - Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

"Intellectual impudence" is the method in Edward Said's "On Late Style," where creators reject conformity, embrace contradiction, and remain "out of place" and against the current until the very end.

ﺍﻷﺳﺮﺍﺭ ﺍﻟﻔﻌﻠﻴﺔ ﻓﻲ ﻛﺘﺎﺏ ﺃﻻﻥ ﻣﻴﻨﺎﺭﻍ: “ﺃﺳﺮﺍﺭ ﺣﺮﺏ ﻟﺒﻨﺎﻥ”

The Real Secrets in Alain Menargues' Book: "Secrets of the Lebanon War"

Ménargues' book promises "Secrets of the Lebanon War," but its true revelations lie in distinguishing genuine discoveries from recycled narratives.

الأسرار الفعلية في كتاب ألان مينارغ:” أسرار حرب لبنان”

The Real Secrets in Alain Menargues' Book: "Secrets of the Lebanon War"

As-Safir

Behind the slogan of "protecting the constitution," Bashir Gemayel's actual project was a military-militia coup to establish a federal state under Maronite hegemony—and the LF's own documents are the witness.

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.

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."

إنذارات لم تسمع في حينها

Warnings Unheard in Their Time

الناقد

1960s poems whose reading was deferred until after the siege. The warnings were there. No one listened.

هرطقات الطبقات الدنيا – اول ثورة ديمقراطية

Heresies of the Lower Classes - The First Democratic Revolution

The English Revolution was the first democratic revolution, unleashing the "heresies of the lower classes" that demanded collective land ownership and equality, before being suppressed in favor of the merchant class.