الاقتصاد والطوائف في نشوء «لبنان الكبير»

Economy and Sects in the Genesis of "Greater Lebanon"

Bidayat

The emergence of 'Greater Lebanon' was not merely a response to sectarian desires but a comprehensive French colonial operation that instrumentalized economics and sects to define an entity serving its interests in controlling Syria.

تأملات كورونيالية – قابيل، انكيدو وجورج حاتم

Coronial Reflections - Cain, Enkidu, and George Hatem

When humans domesticated animals, animals retaliated with plague — Enkidu was humanized through woman but died incomplete. In the 21st century, the savage is entirely human.

ماركس في «ربيع الشعوب» ١٨٤٨ بناء الحقل السياسي والتعلّم من الممارسة

Marx in the "Spring of Nations" 1848: Building the Political Field and Learning from Practice

Bidayat

Marx's engagement with the 1848 revolutions refined his understanding of class representation and the state, leading him to view socialism as the necessary completion of political democracy to resolve the contradiction between political and social inequality.

مئوية سايكس بيكو – نقاط على حروف الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary - Dots on the Letters of Maps and History

Bidayat

The article deconstructs the mythologization of Sykes-Picot, showing it as a prolonged colonial process linked to the Balfour Declaration for seizing Palestine, and reshaping the region based on major powers' interests while denying the majority self-determination.

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.

٨ آذار ٢٠١٣ – الثورة أنثى

March 8, 2013 - The Revolution Is Female

As-Safir

The revolution is feminine—every retreat from the civil state strikes women first: Saudi women on the Shura Council who can't attend without a male guardian.

كلمات بتصرّف قيادة حزب الله

Words Adapted by Hezbollah's Leadership

As-Safir

An appeal: withdraw from Syria — the honor of resistance weapons is to remain aimed at Israel alone.

الثورات بين السياسي والاجتماعي

Revolutions Between the Political and the Social

As-Safir

They revolted for "bread, freedom, social justice" — and got neoliberal austerity with an Islamic beard.

عن حلب واخواتها والدهشة

On Aleppo, Its Sisters, and Astonishment

As-Safir

Robbing us of astonishment is the real crime — before Aleppo, resistance means refusing to get used to the killing.

الدم اليمني في ذكرى الوحدة والانفصال

Yemeni Blood on the Anniversary of Unity and Secession

As-Safir

Yemen commemorates its unity anniversary with blood and separation, after a short-lived unity experiment marred by discrimination, necessitating today a popular referendum on the form of governance, especially in the South.

الأمل بالياسمين

Hope in the Jasmine

As-Safir

Breaking the fear barrier made everything possible — Tunisia's dictator fell but the dictatorship didn't, and the battle for revolution begins.

امرأتان وكلمة سر واحدة

Two Women and One Password

As-Safir

Helen Thomas from the White House, Haneen Zoabi from the Knesset — one password: Palestine is occupied, so why don't they go back?

بلعيدي الحرب الاسبانية

Belaidi of the Spanish Civil War

An-Nahar

“Otherwise what would workers say about the Arabs?” That is how Muhammad Belaidi went to Spain and returned an internationalist martyr.

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.

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.

مقابلة ثناء

Thana'a Interview

As-Safir

Interview: intellectual journey from Ba'ath to the new left — from war to exile and return. The Lebanese left's experience and the question of democracy and socialism.

محمد بلعيدي: شهيد عربي دفاعاً عن الجمهورية الاسبانية

Muhammad Belaidi: An Arab Martyr in Defense of the Spanish Republic

When I heard Arabs fought for Franco, I said: I must do something — what will they say about Arabs? A Spanish woman raised her fist over the Arab's coffin.