الأمل لا يعني التغاضي عن الانتكاسات مقابلة مع فواز طرابلسي

Hope Does Not Mean Overlooking Setbacks: An Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Bidayat

Marxism gave him the confidence to write about everything — and hope does not mean overlooking setbacks.

تقديم كتاب: إن كان بدك تعشق، كتابات في الثقافة الشعبية

Book Introduction: If You Want to Fall in Love - Writings on Popular Culture

Gilgamesh is popular culture, Picasso drew from African masks — no rupture between "high" and "low," but the key distinction: culture produced by the people vs. culture produced for their consumption.

عيد البربارة والصراع الطبقي

Saint Barbara's Day and the Class Struggle

The Feast of Barbara: collective begging — the Rahbanis warned: "Poverty, when hungry, eats the king." No one listened. Hunger ate Beirut's port in the 1975 carnival.

Reflections on Culture and Folklore in Lebanon

Folklore is the "matrix of every culture": the dabkeh is a pre-monotheistic fertility rite, proverbs are ruins of old tales—and the Rahbanis and Ziad created modern folklore confronting war and hypocrisy.

Crisis and Memory – in the Theatre of the Rahbani Brothers and Fayrouz

Jisr al-Qamar manufactures forgetfulness by miracle; Petra recasts civil war as liberation—and the erased question is the same: where does the conflict come from?