Glossary Index – Fawwaz Traboulsi

687 reviewed heads

اسماعيل هنية

Hamas governmental and political leader whose archive presence centers on the 2006 Palestinian electoral break and later Islamist accommodation debates

Declaration 5

اعلان بلفور

the 1917 Balfour Declaration as colonial-political rupture tied to Palestine

Massacre / Repression Phase 2

الأسبوع الدامي

final week of massacre and military repression that crushed the Paris Commune

Term 2

الإصلاح بواسطة السلاح

Traboulsi paradox naming the attempt to impose political reform through warfare

Supranational Institution 5

الاتحاد الاوروبي

the European Union as political-economic bloc, diplomatic actor, and neoliberal-governance horizon

Polity / Socialist State Formation 6

الاتحاد السوفياتي

the Soviet Union as socialist state, Cold War pole, and geopolitical-historical frame rather than as a simple organization

Organization 4

الاتحاد العمالي العام

major Lebanese labor-union confederation

Publication 6

الاخبار

Lebanese newspaper

Organization 5

الاخوان المسلمون

regional Islamist movement, usually in Egyptian or Syrian political context

Place 7

الاردن

Jordan as state, monarchy, and Palestinian-Lebanese regional field

Term 2

الاستثناء الاسلامي

orientalist claim that Islamic societies are exceptional in ways that block democratic or historical development

Term 2

الاستراتيجية الدفاعية

Lebanese `defense strategy` debate over arms, deterrence, and Hezbollah's military role

Work 4

الاستشراق

Edward Said's book

Term 5

الاستغراب

occidentalism as the inverse but inadequate answer to orientalism

Term 1

الاستقلال المركّب

Traboulsi formulation for a double or layered independence required by Lebanese history

Place 4

الاشرفية

East Beirut quarter, appearing here through civil-war fear, sectarian rumor, and the iconic `Ashrafieh killer` case

Term 5

الاقتصاد الحر

free-market ideology and the Lebanese doctrine of non-intervention

Term 4

الاقتصاد الريعي

rentier economy and related rentier-state reasoning

Place 6

الامارات

UAE as Gulf federation, normalization actor, and regional political-economic power

Organization 5

الامم المتحدة

United Nations as diplomatic, humanitarian, and developmental institutional actor

Organization 2

الاممية الاولى

historical socialist international / International Workingmen's Association

Place 5

الاندلس

historical Islamic Iberia, functioning here as cultural memory, metaphor, and actual travel destination

Work 5

الانسنية والنقد الديمقراطي

Edward Said's posthumous lecture collection `الانسنية والنقد الديمقراطي`

Publication 3

الاهرام

Egyptian newspaper functioning in the archive mainly as a cited venue, especially through the column and interview field around Mohamed Hassanein Heikal

Publication 3

الايكونومست

British weekly magazine

Term 3

الباتريمونيالية

patrimonial or neo-patrimonial explanation of Arab regimes and economies, often as an object of critique

Person 4

الباهي محمد

Moroccan journalist, intellectual, and friend of Abdel Rahman Munif whose archive presence centers on friendship-writing, literary correspondence, and Arab intellectual companionship

Place 5

البحرين

Bahrain as state, uprising field, and Gulf political site

Place 8

البرازيل

Brazil as comparative left-governance case, Latin American political reference, and occasional diplomatic actor

Term 1

البرجوازية الكولونيالية

Mahdi Amil's class-theoretical formulation for the bourgeois fraction reproduced within colonial dependency and incapable of leading genuine national liberation

Place 7