جيوبوليتيكا عربية

Arab Geopolitics

As-Safir

Damascus went from cutting Iran to mediating for it—and Lebanon has no cards, it IS a card in the wind. Who wins?

السيادة العراقية بين الاتفاق الامني وخصخصة النفط

Iraqi Sovereignty Between the Security Agreement and the Privatization of Oil

As-Safir

The occupation exits through the military window and returns through the oil gate—Basra follows Kurdistan in privatizing Iraq's wealth.

اوباما: الرجل والنظام

Obama: The Man and the System

As-Safir

Obama's election crowns the civil rights struggle, but political equality does not mean social equality, as the man operates within an imperial system that limits his capacity for change, especially in our region's foreign policy.

مقابلة البوصلة

Al-Bawsala Interview

Al-Bawsala

In a world where capitalism claims victory and absorption of left-wing demands, the interview reveals this to be a superficial re-framing that exacerbates capitalism's crises and challenges the Left to renew its vision.

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

An-Nahar

Translation: Iraqi federalism should be based on the national divide, not the sectarian one—and the occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime. Kirkuk's oil belongs to all Iraqis.

حرب العراق: هل كان يمكن تفاديها؟

The Iraq War: Could It Have Been Avoided?

As-Safir

Saddam knew there were no WMDs—so why did he stall? Our rulers follow Machiavelli in everything except his brightest advice: be like the fox, expert at detecting traps.

العراق: حروف لنقاط النفط والدم

Iraq: Letters for the Dots of Oil and Blood

As-Safir

The occupation punished an entire sect for a regime—what's needed is Arab-Kurdish federalism and just distribution of Iraq's two rivers: water and oil.

المثلث الفاجع: امريكا، اسرائيل، النفط

The Fatal Triangle: America, Israel, Oil

As-Safir

$20 billion in Gulf arms: not defense but protection money from obscenely wealthy regimes for their thrones—and Arab oil has become a weapon against the Arabs.

من اجل فيدرالية عربية – كردية في العراق

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

As-Safir

The occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime — federalism is either partition's euphemism or a path to rebuilding unity. Condition: an Arab-Kurdish formula transcending ethnicity and sects.

العراق: حرب أعْلام أم حربٌ أهلية؟

Iraq: A War of Flags or a Civil War?

As-Safir

Iraq's war of flags is merely a symptom of a complex civil war, demanding a political Iraqi solution that ends violence and establishes a federalism transcending sectarianism.

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.

حوار مع فواز طرابلسي على قناة الوحدة العربية

The New Iraqi Flag: an exercise in identity manipulation

The new Iraqi flag (2004) was identity manipulation under occupation: erasing Arabism and Islam—and successive Iraqi flags record the country's gradual drift from secularism toward religion.

فواز طرابلسي في برنامج «لقاء سياسي» على المنار (29-05-2003)

فواز طرابلسي في برنامج «لقاء سياسي» على المنار (02-01-2003)

فواز طرابلسي في برنامج «لقاء سياسي» على المنار (2003)

عبد الرحمن منيف ينادي الطوفان*

Abdel Rahman Munif Calls for the Deluge

In "Land of Darkness," a project of alternative national modernity. From al-Bahi's testament: "The flood comes and everything becomes possible, and impossible is deleted from the dictionary."

في صداقة عبد الرحمن منيف والباهي محمد

On the Friendship of Abdel Rahman Munif and al-Bahi Muhammad

Mut'ab al-Hazzal, ghost hovering over oil fields — has a real-life double: the paramount sheikh of Anizah, arrested by the US army in Iraq. Life invents its own novelistic narrative.

الشرعيات الخارجية على حساب الشرعية الشعبية

External Legitimacies at the Expense of Popular Legitimacy

The Islamist scarecrow justified decades of dictatorship — the uprisings proved jihadism is the exception, and "development reports" explained water with water.

Was the Iraq War Inevitable?

Was the war inevitable? Saddam knew there were no WMD yet procrastinated—and our rulers follow Machiavelli in repression but fail to uncover traps like the fox.

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.

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!"

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!"

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."