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.

عودة علي شريعتي

The Return of Ali Shariati

Bidayat

Nasrallah and Khamenei declare Shariati's era over — insisting it has "passed" only confirms it is returning: "Red Shiism" vs. "Black."

اوباما ونتنياهو بين لغة الاجساد ولغة المخاتلة 

Obama and Netanyahu Between Body Language and the Language of Deception

As-Safir

Sixteen agencies confirm: no Iranian weapon — Netanyahu defends a monopoly on 300 warheads the world knows nothing about.

حوار موسّع مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة السورية

Extended Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian Revolution

Jadaliyya

Airpower signals the bankruptcy of resolution—"you can destroy but won't control people without the ground."

إنهـا المـؤامـرة

It Is the Conspiracy

As-Safir

Conspiracy theory never discovers real conspiracies — Yassin al-Hafez's cure: replace "conspiracy" with "interests" and fight for them.

شقاء الامّة في مؤتمر القمّة

The Misery of the Nation at the Summit Conference

As-Safir

Kings and presidents innocent of "committing" fair elections hail Iraqi elections—Saleh proposes an Arab union after turning his southerners from unity enthusiasts into partition advocates.

إنتخابات العراق الدروس اللبناني

Iraq's Elections: The Lebanese Lessons

As-Safir

The Americans imposed de-Baathification then reversed to rehabilitate the worst — Iraq's proportional system is the lesson Lebanon needs.

هيئة الحوار في زمن السلاح الصاروخي

The Dialogue Body in the Age of Missile Weapons

As-Safir

The basket is full of junk—each president has his own institution, and Lebanon shops for fighter planes designed for internal repression in the age of missile strategy.

العراق: هل مَن يريد للاميركيين ان يغادروا؟

Iraq: Does Anyone Want the Americans to Leave?

As-Safir

The occupation punished a whole sect for a regime's crimes and convinced Iraqi forces to define themselves sectarianly. Who actually wants the Americans to leave?

النظام الايراني – بين دين ودنيا

The Iranian Regime - Between Religion and Worldly Affairs

As-Safir

"Where is my vote?"—protesters carry Mousavi and Mossadegh: deeper democracy without American intervention. Rights are seized in the streets, at a high price.

مناورات اسرائيل: جهوزية المقاومة لا تكفي!

Israel's Maneuvers: The Readiness of the Resistance Is Not Enough!

As-Safir

Barak announces the "Dahieh strategy": every civilian target is military. Resistance readiness isn't enough—shelters and civilian maneuvers are needed.

We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine

As-Safir

Holocaust denial discourse is "a hallucination obsessed with the West"—the crime was European against Europeans, and Nazi theories ranked Arabs lower than Jews. Better to investigate Israel's crimes than to deny the Holocaust.

إعدام الاحكام في إعدام صدّام

Executing Justice in Executing Saddam

As-Safir

A death sentence for accountability itself — one crime from the north, one from the south, as if the center had no victims. Sectarianizing victims instead of accounting for thirty years of policy.

نحن و«المحرقة» وفلسطين

We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine

As-Safir

A discourse hallucinating on the West — one face compares Zionism to Nazism, the other wishes "if only he'd finished them all." The suspect says "arrest me" — wanting to commit what he denounces.

Senile Orientalism

Allah will know his own: Lewis attributed a Catholic Crusader phrase to Islam—and his real argument is that Iran has no right to what Israel already possesses in nuclear warheads.

قضية سلمان رشدي: اللعبة الشيطانية

The Salman Rushdie Affair: A Satanic Game

زوايا

Khomeini's fatwa is politics before faith. The West inflates Rushdie's blood to forget Palestinian blood.