الحراك الشعبي في العراق ولبنان ملفات الفساد بيد الناس

The Popular Movement in Iraq and Lebanon: Corruption Files in the People's Hands

Bidayat

In the name of religion, the thieves robbed us — sectarianism isn't the cause of corruption but its cover, and the World Bank fights "corruption" with the privatization that produces it.

حوار اليوم مع الكاتب والأستاذ الجامعي فواز طرابلسي

النفط في المِخيال العربي تقاسيم على مقام السوائل

Oil in the Arab Imaginary: Variations on the Mode of Liquids

Bidayat

Oil is the devil's urine, said Judge al-Hajari — then drank deeply of it. Variations on the mode of liquids: water, tears, semen, blood, and oil.

الحرب الكونية ضد الارهاب – اعلى مراحل الاستعمار

The Global War on Terror - The Highest Stage of Colonialism

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Lenin inverted: "The War on Terror — the highest stage of colonialism." Instead of drying terrorism's sources, the sources are destroyed and their people displaced.

«نهاركم سعيد» (23-10-2014)

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."

LBCI – 27-08-2014

فواز طرابلسي في برنامج «الحدث» مع نانسي الصبح (19-05-2014)

القاعدة في إستخدمات «القاعدة»

Al-Qaeda in the Uses of "Al-Qaeda"

As-Safir

O al-Qaeda—with all your own crimes—how many crimes against peoples are committed in your name and in the name of the war against you!

سوريا في المبادرات الاقليمية والدولية: أوقفوا القتل!

Syria in Regional and International Initiatives: Stop the Killing!

As-Safir

After all this, what matters analysis? Stop the killing! — a cry addressed to no one on earth or in heaven.

فلسطين تنتفض ضد أوسلو الاقتصادي

Palestine Rises Against Economic Oslo

As-Safir

The Palestinian uprising against austerity reveals that 'economic Oslo' is the foundation of political subservience, and that high prices and unemployment are a cry against this dependency.

الممانعة في أزمة «الممانعة»

Mumana'a in the Crisis of "Mumana'a"

As-Safir

Syria's "resistance" policy, which originated as a regional deterrence strategy, transformed into a tool for internal domination and is now in a structural crisis that weakens Syria's own resilience.

حوار هادئ: فواز طرابلسي يرد على خطاب نصرالله في الموضوع السوري

A Calm Dialogue: Fawwaz Traboulsi Responds to Nasrallah's Speech on the Syrian Issue

As-Safir

Bahrain's king's absolute powers are no greater than Assad's under his "reform" constitution — Nasrallah mourns four security chiefs but not their hundreds of thousands of victims.

الثورة والدساتير

Revolution and Constitutions

As-Safir

The battle over constitutions is the real one — whoever writes them decides whether revolution becomes democracy or is aborted.

١٥ ايار ٢٠١٢: نقاط على حروف الذكرى

May 15, 2012: Setting the Record Straight on the Anniversary

As-Safir

Darwish: "Show me the Israeli surrender project so I can sign it" — the Third Intifada is a necessity, not a fantasy.

اليسار في الزمن الثوري

The Left in Revolutionary Times

Bidayat

The Arab revolutions are a critique-by-practice of neoliberalism — the World Bank admitted the metric it imposed for 25 years doesn't solve unemployment. Democracy is the road to socialism.

الحراك ضد الفساد في العراق ولبنان بإسم الدين، سرقونا

The Movement Against Corruption in Iraq and Lebanon: In the Name of Religion, They Stole from Us

Bidayat

In the name of religion they robbed us — corruption is pretext not cause, and sectarianism covers capitalist exploitation, not the other way around.

الثورات في العام الثالث – الشعب لا زال يريد

Revolutions in the Third Year - The People Still Want

As-Safir

Destroying the Iraqi state in the name of "civil society" unleashed not freedom but sectarian demons — every Arab revolution has two wings: modernist and regressive.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: منالماغوط إلى لينين الذي يعرفالعربية!

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: From al-Maghut to Lenin Who Knows Arabic!

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

From al-Maghout to Lenin who “knows Arabic”: translation is an obsession whose danger lies in small details.

بين العراق ولبنان: ملفات الفساد بيد الناس

Between Iraq and Lebanon: Corruption Files in the People's Hands

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The movements in Iraq and Lebanon against corruption intersect in the collapse of services and the exposure of sectarianism's role, but crucially, they transform corruption files from official lies into a popular issue for accountability in the streets.

الارهاب

Terrorism

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Terrorism is not mere violence, but a weapon in states' foreign policies and a face of administrative savagery, which cannot be eradicated by military solutions that ignore its true sources of grievances and discrimination.

لا تحيّة لهذا العلم!

No Salute to This Flag!

A blue crescent reduces Arabs to Muslims, a yellow line grants Kurds exclusive nationality — Saddam in reverse, and a flag that deserves only to be torn apart in the street.

روايات افتراضية وشعب حقيقي

Virtual Narratives and a Real People

As-Safir

Resistance means inviting every external party to control the people — and this real people has nothing left to lose but its chains.

الثورات تسقط الافكار ايضا

Revolutions Bring Down Ideas Too

Al-Akhbar

They predicted the youth would become jihadists — instead they became democrats. Tens of millions in the streets are not a "deficit" but a surplus of democracy.