التفكير الاجتماعي في أزمنة التحولات الكبرى

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

SifR

What is needed are forces that translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

The left must translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

غواية النجوم – «حجابه نور» (قرآن كريم)

Starry Temptation - "His Veil Is Light" (Quran)

Between a colonizer desiring to occupy the stars, a little prince who sees them laugh, and a Sufi mystic seeking their unification, the allure of the cosmos is revealed in humanity's diverse ways of approaching the heavens.

ذاكرة 6 حزيران (يونيو) 1967: إعادة الاعتبار إلى تفسير الهزيمة عسكرياً

The Memory of June 6, 1967: Rehabilitating the Military Interpretation of the Defeat

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Dominant interpretations of the 1967 defeat blamed culture or society, ignoring the actual military events, whereas this article uncovers the decisive military moment that led to it.

هل الاقتصاديات العربية ريعية؟ حالتا مصر ولبنان

Are Arab Economies Rentier? The Cases of Egypt and Lebanon

Bidayat

The concept of "rentier economy" is inverted from a negative symptom to an inherent feature of capitalism, where exploitation extends beyond production to strongly impact the market.

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.

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.

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.

في خصخصة الجيوش الوطنية

On the Privatization of National Armies

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The privatization of national armies in the confrontation states is the price for suppressing peoples and militarizing their issues, leading to the systematic dismantlement of their role in national defense.

الأزرق من حزيران/ يونيو ١٩٦٧

The Blue of June 1967

As-Safir

A memoir of 1967: in the cell, they hadn't realized we'd lost — and the Baalbeki dreamed of freeing his caged bird, as if Chahine had been among us.

بدايات في العام السادس

Bidayat in Its Sixth Year

Bidayat

In its sixth year, “Bidayat” renews its commitment to expanding critical reflection and deep left-wing intellectual inquiry to confront the challenges of the Arab uprisings, moving beyond quick opinion journalism.

القتل من السماء تاريخ موجز للطيران الحربي ضد المدنيّين

Killing from the Sky: A Brief History of Military Aviation Against Civilians

Bidayat

Churchill proposed mustard gas on Iraqis as "more humane" — killing from the sky began against the colonized before Guernica. Daraa's people answered barrel bombs by drilling for water.

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.

من يتذكر الاول من ايار؟

Who Remembers the First of May?

As-Safir

Despite political crises, May Day reminds us that the Arab revolutions were founded on workers' issues and rights, and that freedom cannot stand without bread and true democracy.

من يحاسِب؟ ومن يحاسِب مَن؟

Who Holds Accountable? And Who Holds Whom Accountable?

As-Safir

The issue is not merely the overthrow of the ruler, but preventing immunity, exile, and assassination from swallowing the revolutions' first achievement: the right to accountability.

مارغريت ثاتشر – الارث والجنازة

Margaret Thatcher - The Legacy and the Funeral

As-Safir

The "milk snatcher" privatized everything; Ken Loach proposed privatizing her funeral — more consistent with her legacy.

مؤتمر الحوار الوطني اليمني: البداية المبتورة

The Yemeni National Dialogue Conference: A Truncated Beginning

As-Safir

Yemen's National Dialogue Conference is a major step, but it is fundamentally truncated by the immunity granted to the former president and the marginalization of revolutionary youth and the Southern Movement.

مواد قابلة للاشتعال

Flammable Materials

As-Safir

The confrontation over the wage ladder reveals Lebanon's true power: the financial-commercial-real estate complex that obstructs reforms and accumulates flammable social and sectarian tensions.

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.

تمرين في الترجمة

An Exercise in Translation

As-Safir

How are globalization's terms like transparency and transitional justice translated in the Arab world to become a cover for plundering wealth and exempting ruling families from accountability?

هي ثورة

It Is a Revolution

As-Safir

These are revolutions, not a 'spring' or uprisings: they erupt when rulers can no longer govern and the ruled can no longer tolerate them, imposing systemic change, not just reform, through popular power.

الإستغاثة بالكيماوي

Calling on Chemical Weapons

As-Safir

The chemical weapons threat is not intimidation but a cry of bankruptcy — a regime blackmailing the world while every other method of killing passes as "legitimate."

الدولة الفلسطينية المراقِبة وإحياء السياسة

The Palestinian Observer State and the Revival of Politics

As-Safir

The "symbol" Arafat was reburied — but a symbol cannot be buried. There should be no need to bury him a third time.