التفكير الاجتماعي في أزمنة التحولات الكبرى

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

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What is needed are forces that translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

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.

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.

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.

الفن الجيّد يوحي أكثر منه يستوحي

Good Art Inspires More Than It Draws Upon

The body thins to fly, merging with trees and birds — no death, only the dialectic of transformation, and bullets have lost to colors.

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.

“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.