أوكرانيا على مذبح المعسكريَن أوقفوا هذه الحرب!

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

Bidayat

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.

ميكلوس يانكشو فتنة الثورة واقتتال الإخوة

Miklós Jancsó: The Temptation of Revolution and Fratricidal Strife

Bidayat

Jancsó: where oppression reigns, open space becomes a prison without bars — commissioned for the revolution's anniversary, he made an anti-war film.

مذكرات جورج بطل ٣ فرج الله حلو في موقفه الجريء وعزله واستشهاده

The Memoirs of George al-Batal 3: Farajallah al-Helou in His Courageous Stance, His Isolation, and His Martyrdom

Bidayat

I am Farajallah Helou, there is no other responsible person — his last words before torture killed him and acid dissolved his body. Heikal denied he ever existed.

جورج البطل، آخر البلاشفة ٢ شيوعيّون في «حوادث الـ٥٨»

George al-Batal, the Last Bolshevik (2): Communists in the 1958 Crisis

Bidayat

"You're good at demonstrations but can't shoot," Jumblatt told them — so the communists smuggled three hundred weapons past his own checkpoints.

١٩٦٧، ١٩٨٢، ٢٠١٧ الآلة الجهنمية: من الحروب الوطنية الى الحروب الاهلية

1967, 1982, 2017 - The Infernal Machine: From National Wars to Civil Wars

Bidayat

The infernal machine: armies built to fight the enemy shattered against their own peoples — and between 1967 and 2017, we know Guantanamo better than Sednaya.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (4-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (4/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

In a paradox revealing the limits of Communist internationalism, the Soviets did not object to Salmin's removal but opposed Abd al-Fattah's presidency because he was a 'northerner,' amidst internal conflicts that led to the liquidation of comrades.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (3-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (3/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

From al-Hamdi's assassination in Sana'a to Salmin's end in Aden, chapters of Yemen's bloody conflicts unfold, where internal divisions reached the point of readiness for battle, and a personal letter survives to bear witness to that era.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (2-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (2/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

After the left took power in "Democratic Yemen," the conflict within the ruling troika exposed the contradiction between the ideological drive towards Marxism and one-party rule, and Salmin's pragmatism in facing economic realities.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (1-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (1/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

The author recounts his personal experience with leftist rule in Democratic Yemen, revealing the dynamics and internal contradictions of the ruling 'troika,' including the conflict between the city and the countryside.

الازمة السورية في الحرب الباردة الجديدة؟

The Syrian Crisis in the New Cold War?

As-Safir

Third-tier officials in Washington and Moscow deliberate on Syria's military — perfectly consistent with Syrian sovereignty.

من الوثائق الرسمية الاميركية التدخل العسكري السوري في لبنان، ١٩٧٦

From Official American Documents: Syria's Military Intervention in Lebanon, 1976

Bidayat

Kissinger claimed Washington "was not consulted" about Syria's intervention — the official documents narrate the coordination in detail.

Giordano Bruno is a bronze tree

Giordano Bruno was burned on wood and sculpted from wood—he is not the one standing upside down, our world is.

أسواق وجدران وأبراج

Markets, Walls, and Towers

As-Safir

The Berlin Wall fell and the world's biggest wall-building workshop opened—Israel's "devouring wall" steals land while segregating, and the Burj Khalifa is globalization's Babel.

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.

The New Middle East – what’s in a name?

Every time the US hits a dead end in the region it invents a new name—and the priority is now "moderation," not democracy: Rice admitted the "moderates" are not democratic.

Arab Democracy and New Geo-Strategic Realities

The Washington Papers

Has the West tried to impose democracy on us?—No. It exported modernization, not democracy, and always backed authoritarianism. The 1949 Zaim coup was about oil and Israel, not the Cold War.

Democracy and Arab Nationalism – SOAS

SOAS

Arab nationalism is not the antithesis of democracy—and "defenders of authenticity" import everything Western except what is progressive. The Iraqi people were punished thrice: by war, betrayal, and blockade.

Palestine In The “Fatal Triangle”

Chiha reduced Palestine from a "project of planetary domination" to "difficulties"—and for the first and last time, he defended industry.