الفن الجيّد يوحي أكثر منه يستوحي

Good Art Inspires More Than It Draws Upon

The body thins to fly, merging with trees and birds — no death, only the dialectic of transformation, and bullets have lost to colors.

غواية النجوم

Starry Temptation

Rhodes wanted to colonize the stars; Ibn Arabi wanted to unite with them: between greed and vision through the heart lies the meaning of the world.

أوكرانيا على مذبح المعسكريَن أوقفوا هذه الحرب!

Ukraine on the Altar of the Two Camps: Stop This War!

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The Cold War ended by dissolving one alliance and enlarging the other, but Russian aggression remains aggression — and Ukrainians are paying the price. Stop this war.

مقدّمة لـ«أسس نقد الاقتصاد السياسي» (١٨٥٧) جزء ٢/١

Introduction to the "Grundrisse" (1857) Part 1/2

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In "Grundrisse," Marx challenges the classical economic view that separates and eternalizes production and distribution, revealing their organic unity and historical determination within specific social relations.

الحرية ضد العدالة والمساواة نقاش لأفكار فون هايك النيوليبراليّة

Freedom Against Justice and Equality: A Discussion of Friedrich von Hayek's Neoliberal Ideas

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The article discusses Friedrich von Hayek's neoliberal ideas, which prioritize individual liberty over justice and equality, showing how his concept of market "spontaneity" ignores the role of human struggles in achieving justice and transforms the market into a speculative "casino."

ما هي النيوليبرالية؟

What Is Neoliberalism?

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Neoliberalism is a comprehensive ideology that governs our lives without being named, presenting itself as a natural, inevitable doctrine, while being the economic face of new American imperialism and responsible for major crises.

القتل من السماء تاريخ موجز للطيران الحربي ضد المدنيّين

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

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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.

غيفارا: كلام بلا صورة

Guevara: Words Without a Picture

Freeing Guevara from the T-shirt — socialist countries are complicit in exploitation if they trade at world market prices.

خمس أطروحات في الماركسية المعاصرة

Five Theses on Contemporary Marxism

Capitalism, with its deep structural contradictions, does not kill Marxism but renews its necessity, pushing for a re-imagination of revolution and social alternatives.

تصفية حسات مع التجربة السوفييتية: تقييم ودروس

Settling Accounts with the Soviet Experience: An Assessment and Lessons

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Settling scores with the Soviet experience: a project that claimed equality by sacrificing freedom, demonstrating that democracy is a fundamental condition for socialism, not an addition to it.

التجربة السوفييتية: ما لها وما عليها

The Soviet Experience: Its Merits and Its Faults

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this text offers a balance sheet of the Soviet experience, drawing essential lessons for those who still believe in the possibility of transcending capitalism towards a new world.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: مستويات“الخيانة” بين المبنى والمعنى

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: Levels of "Betrayal" Between Form and Meaning

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The test of translation is simple and severe: the text must read as if it were written in Arabic from the start. Everything else is excuse.

Un constructeur d’espoirs – Comment s’explique le retour du Che?

A Builder of Hopes - How to Explain the Return of Che?

Why does Che Guevara return to be revered anew? Because he represents an antithesis to neoliberal materialism and individualism, and a symbol of moral commitment, solidarity, and the building of hopes.

تأميم الخسائر وتخصيص الارباح

Nationalizing Losses and Privatizing Profits

As-Safir

Samir Amin: what's happening is "nationalizing losses and privatizing profits"—the state rescues the rich and charges the poor. Resisting starts with inverting the equation.

الفقر إنْ جاع…

When Poverty Goes Hungry...

As-Safir

A child dies of hunger every five seconds—the FAO decides to "eliminate" it without funds or deadlines. "Poverty, when it hungers, devours the king"—what when the poor man is the hungry?

Ethnonationalism and the Failed State: Sources of Civil State Fragmentation in the International Political Economy

Ethnonationalist conflicts stem not from ancient hatreds, but from modern state failures that rationally drive individuals towards ethnic and religious identities.

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.

تشي غيفارا: طوبى الانسان الجديد

Che Guevara: Blessed Be the New Man

As-Safir

They hid his body and confirmed his presence without it — this generation suffers dream-poverty like anemia, and Che's image is the immunity.

ادوارد سعيد في «الاسلوب المتأخر» – الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style" - Impudence as Intellectual Method

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"Intellectual impudence" is the method in Edward Said's "On Late Style," where creators reject conformity, embrace contradiction, and remain "out of place" and against the current until the very end.

هل يكون “الكازينو الدولي” بديلاً من العدالة الاجتماعية؟

Could the "International Casino" Replace Social Justice?

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Can the "global casino" replace social justice? This piece critiques Friedrich von Hayek's neoliberal ideas and calls on the Arab left to reclaim the concepts of justice and equal opportunity it abandoned.