صائب سلام
Lebanese Sunni political leader and prime minister associated with the reformist promise and limits of the pre-war order
صادق جلال العظم
Syrian philosopher and critic of Arab defeat discourse, culturalism, and religious thought
صبرا
camp/neighborhood head in Beirut, inseparable from the 1982 massacre but not reducible to a bare event label
صدام حسين
Iraqi ruler and emblematic authoritarian-war actor
صراع الحضارات
Huntington-style civilizational thesis and related culturalist explanation of world conflict
صعدة
northern Yemeni province as Houthi stronghold, war zone, and regional pole of the fractured Yemeni state
صلات بلا وصل
Fawwaz Traboulsi's critique of Michel Chiha and Lebanese ideology
صندوق النقد الدولي
international financial institution
صنعاء
Yemeni capital as political stage, war-struck city, and site of state collapse
صنمية خرائطية
Traboulsi coinage critiquing the treatment of the Sykes-Picot map as the sacred body of the nation
صور
southern Lebanese coastal city and port, urban center of the south, and site of labor, protest, and political organization
صورة الفتى بالأحمر
Fawwaz Traboulsi's memoir `أيام في السلم والحرب`
صيدا
southern Lebanese port city as labor-protest site, historical harbor, and node in the political economy of oil and the south
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