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.

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.

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.

كارل ماركس – مقالات عن سورية ولبنان، ١٨٦٠

Karl Marx - Articles on Syria and Lebanon, 1860

Bidayat

In his articles on the 1860 events in Syria and Lebanon, Marx exposes French and Russian imperial ambitions behind the pretext of protecting Christians, and reveals the "Arab Kingdom" project.

علاء الدين العالم – محاورة فوّاز طرابلسي

Alaa al-Din al-Alem - A Conversation with Fawwaz Traboulsi

The October 2019 uprising is a historic break with the post-war neoliberal 'reconstruction' system, facing the challenge of building independent leadership to resist austerity and hold the corrupt accountable.

يوسف عبدلكي والتفاصيل المشاغِبة

Youssef Abdelke and the Rebellious Details

An engraving looks like passion until the details reveal rape — the title: "The Director General." His grotesques try to match the super-grotesqueness of our "reality."

مقالات عن سورية ولبنان، ١٨٦٠

Articles on Syria and Lebanon, 1860

Bidayat

Translation: Marx in 1860 reveals great-power horse-trading over Syria's corpse — but neglects the internal causes: the collapse of the muqata'ji system and peasant uprisings.

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.

مثقفون في حوداث الـ١٨٦٠

Intellectuals in the 1860 Events

The 1860 civil war didn't only produce victims — it produced intellectuals. The Nahda wasn't born from "contact with the West" but from the cracks of civil war itself.

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.

وعد بلفور – نظرة جديدة

The Balfour Declaration - A New Look

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was not merely a commitment to a national home, but a colonial tool to secure the British Mandate over Palestine and deny the Arab majority its political rights by defining them as "non-Jewish communities".