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.

Democracy in the Arab World

The Arab ruler concedes everything to Washington and nothing to his people — a pyromaniac firefighter.

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.

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.

Starry Temptation

Between Cecil Rhodes' colonial ambition to annex the planets, Muhammad al-Maghut's refusal to own a home in the stars, the Little Prince's vision of them as laughing joys, and Ibn Arabi's Sufi "marriage" to them, different dimensions of the relationship with place and the cosmos are revealed.

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.

مائة عام على اتفاقية سايكس-بيكو واعلان بلفور

One Hundred Years Since the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration

Conspiracy-seekers hunting for "projects" overlook the declared imperial strategy: the "Global War on Terror" — a real imperial project that needs no quotation marks.

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.

تقاسيم على مقام الوحدة والتقسيم – تصوّرات عربية لاتفاقية سايكس-پيكو

Variations on Unity and Partition - Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Bidayat

ISIS declared it "broke Sykes-Picot" — as if the borders weren't already a sieve. The agreement has become a myth: one headline suffices to launch partition paranoia.