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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.

Al Arabi 2
Mutalaat
Najwa Barakat
November 2025
Video 8m
Arabic

"Lebanon Is Not an Eastern Exception, but a Model of Fragmented Modernity" — Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Rise of Greater Lebanon

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Video AR Al Arabi 2 2025

مطالعات l "لبنان ليس استثناء شرقيا، بل نموذجا لحداثة مفككة".. فواز طرابلسي يتأمل "نشوء لبنان الكبير"

"Lebanon Is Not an Eastern Exception, but a Model of Fragmented Modernity" — Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Rise of Greater Lebanon

Lebanon is not an Eastern exception but a model of disassembled modernity — freedoms without democracy, elections without rule of law, sectarian definition confining Lebanese to a single existence.

Al Arabi 2
Mutalaat
November 2025
Video 7m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi Describes Al-Aqsa Flood as the Most Important Armed Struggle Operation Since the Battle of Algiers

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Video AR Al Arabi 2 2025

مطالعات l "أهم عملية كفاح مسلح تم القيام بها بعد معركة الجزائر".. فواز طرابلسي يصف طوفان الأقـصى

Fawwaz Traboulsi Describes Al-Aqsa Flood as the Most Important Armed Struggle Operation Since the Battle of Algiers

Nobody tell me the lobby — there is an organic part of NATO called Israel: and the first unspoken weakness — the Palestinian people are split.

Memoirs AR Art & Literature History Politics 2025

في وداع زياد الرحباني

Farewell to Ziad Rahbani

Ziad created the lingua franca of post-war Lebanon — through it a generation found each other across front lines and carried their innocence to October 17.

CFKDL
Wainon? Podcast
Elsy Moufarrej
May 2025
Podcast 1h 9m
Arabic

The Lebanon War 1975–1990 — Wainon? Podcast

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Podcast AR CFKDL 2025

حرب لبنان 1975-1990 | بودكاست وينون؟

The Lebanon War 1975–1990 — Wainon? Podcast

The biggest error: believing in military decisiveness — an illusory idea: mutual self-criticism after fifty years from both sides of the war.

Memoirs AR Art & Literature History Politics 2025

في صداقة الياس خوري

On the Friendship of Elias Khoury

I have not yet said goodbye to Elias Khoury — for him, culture was a moral act and friendship its highest commitment.

Shams TV
Special Interview
Malik Al-Sharif
April 2025
Video 56m
Arabic

Special Interview — Writer and Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Video AR Shams TV 2025

لقاء خاص | الكاتب والمؤرخ فواز طرابلسي

Special Interview — Writer and Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi

I don't speak of 'resistance' — the resistance ended in 2000. Since then, the legitimacy of arms is purely defensive.

Talks & Panels EN International Relations Political Economy Politics Sociology 2025

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.

Papers AR Art & Literature History 2025

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.

Interviews EN History Politics 2024

“The Architecture of Empire”: Writing as Resistance to Fascism

Roy and Traboulsi dissect how neoliberalism and religious nationalism reinforce each other — from India's caste architecture to Lebanon's captured resistance — and ask what writing can do when the state controls the story.

Lebanese Communist Party
Fares Eshti
June 2024
Video 1h 13m
Arabic

The Social Base of the Left in the Socio-Economic Formation — Dr. Kamal Hamdan and Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Video AR Lebanese Communist Party 2024

القاعدة الإجتماعية لليسار في التشكيلة الإقتصادية الإجتماعية - د. كمال حمدان، د. فواز طرابلسي

The Social Base of the Left in the Socio-Economic Formation — Dr. Kamal Hamdan and Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi

60-70% of banks have partnerships with politicians — and multinational corporations harmonize with tribal loyalties against the sovereign state.

Al Jadeed Special Content
Huna Beirut
Adam Shamseddine
April 2024
Video 7m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: What the Palestinians Did in October Is the Most Successful Military Operation Recently

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Video AR Al Jadeed Special Content 2024

فواز طرابلسي : ما قاموا به الفلسطينيين في تشرين يعدّ أنجح عملية عسكرية مؤخراً

Fawwaz Traboulsi: What the Palestinians Did in October Is the Most Successful Military Operation Recently

Delve into a critical analysis with Fawwaz Traboulsi as he evaluates the October Palestinian military operation, comparing its strategic success to the historic 1957 Battle of Algiers. This discussion challenges the mainstream narrative, exploring the profound asymmetric realities of the conflict and the fallacy of reducing systemic occupation to a clash of individual leaders.

Al Jadeed News
Huna Beirut
Adam Shamseddine
April 2024
Video 51m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Here Beirut" (26-04-2024)

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2024

هنا بيروت - فواز طرابلسي - 26-4-2024

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Here Beirut" (26-04-2024)

Historian Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi analyzes the geopolitical shifts following October 7th, drawing historical parallels between the Gaza war and the 1957 Battle of Algiers. He critically evaluates Arab normalization, Hezbollah's involvement in southern Lebanon, and the stark contrast between global solidarity and regional political inaction.

Articles AR History Politics 2024 As-Safir

من المكبوت الفلسطيني-اللبناني نشأة المخيّمات الفلسطينية في لبنان

The Palestinian-Lebanese Taboo: The Genesis of Palestinian Camps in Lebanon

As-Safir

We put them near the cities — to serve businessmen's need for cheap labor: the repressed Palestinian-Lebanese history.

Channel SifR
Channel SifR
March 2024
Video 56m
Arabic

Gaza — Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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Video AR Channel SifR 2024

غزة - فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي

Gaza — Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Al-Aqsa Flood is the greatest national liberation operation since the Battle of Algiers — and Israeli doctors calculated Palestinian calorie limits like their Nazi predecessors.

Information International
Lecture at Al-Madina Theatre
Nidal Al-Ashkar
March 2024
Video 1h 35m
Arabic

Gaza, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Video AR Information International 2024

غزة فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي مع الدكتور فواز طرابلسي

Gaza, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi

Join historian Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi for a profound lecture unpacking the war on Gaza and the shifting paradigms of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Discover deep insights into Arab normalization, the role of the resistance axis, and the future of Palestinian liberation amidst unprecedented global solidarity.

Al Mada Group
Iyad Al-Anbar
February 2024
Video 46m
Arabic

Culture, Politics, and the Paths of the Arab Individual

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Video AR Al Mada Group 2024

الثقافة والسياسة ومسارات الانسان العربي

Culture, Politics, and the Paths of the Arab Individual

In 2011 I believed what the revolutions said about themselves — and I consider I was wrong: their expression was a product of neoliberal thought borrowed from Eastern Europe.

Al Mada Group
Iraq International Book Fair
Salem
February 2024
Video 26m
Arabic

Book Signing: The Era of the New Left

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Video AR Al Mada Group 2024

حفل توقيع كتاب زمن اليسار الجديد

Book Signing: The Era of the New Left

Civil wars end with two losers — and sectarianism is not identity but five structural inequalities: fix them and the sect disappears.

Interviews AR History Politics 2024

فواز طرابلسي: «زمن اليسار الجديد» سؤال النشأة وسياق التحولات

Fawwaz Traboulsi: "The Time of the New Left" - The Question of Origins and the Context of Transformations

Either the left becomes the party of answers to neoliberalism and social justice — or religious and right-wing extremism takes its place.

November 2023
Video 8m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi on Translating Edward Said's "Out of Place"

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Video AR 2023

فواز طرابلسي عن ترجمة «خارج المكان» لإدوارد سعيد

Fawwaz Traboulsi on Translating Edward Said's "Out of Place"

Translation is a science of tricks, not an act of betrayal — and Zionism is the theft of a home: whoever dares has no limit to the crimes they can commit.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences
October 2023
Video 56m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Political Activism in the Aftermath of May 1968

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Video AR Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2023

فواز طرابلسي: النشاط السياسي في أعقاب أيار 1968

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Political Activism in the Aftermath of May 1968

In our days we said militant — now they say activist: the militant fights something, the activist wants something. And the word transforms into "terrorist."

Faculty of Arts and Sciences
August 2023
Video 1h 47m
English

The Legacy of Edward Said

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Video EN Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2023

The Legacy of Edward Said

Panel discussion at AUB marking the tenth anniversary of Edward Said's passing. Distinguished academics and close friends reflect on his contributions as a secular humanist, literary critic, and a fearless voice for the exiled.

Al Jazeera Arabic
Al-Muqabala
January 2023
Video 51m
Arabic

The Interview — With Writer and Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 2

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Video AR Al Jazeera Arabic 2023

المقابلة - مع الكاتب والمؤرخ اللبناني فواز طرابلسي - الجزء الثاني

The Interview — With Writer and Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 2

Revolutions without revolutionaries — organized Islamists with a complete vision, versus civil forces whose entire position was "we are not the Islamists."

Al Jazeera Arabic
Al-Muqabala
Ali Al-Zafiri
January 2023
Video 51m
Arabic

The Interview — With Writer and Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 1

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Video AR Al Jazeera Arabic 2023

المقابلة - مع الكاتب والمؤرخ اللبناني فواز طرابلسي - الجزء الأول

The Interview — With Writer and Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 1

Interview on Al Jazeera Arabic's "Al-Muqabala" program, featuring Lebanese historian and writer Fawwaz Traboulsi. Traboulsi discusses his early upbringing, his political shift towards the Leftist movement, his role during the Lebanese Civil War, and his eventual transition to writing and academia.

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