تصوّرات عربيّة لاتفاقيّة سايكس-پيكو الوحدة المقدّسة ورُهاب التقسيم

Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement: Sacred Unity and the Phobia of Partition

Bidayat

A century later, Sykes-Picot has become a myth explaining every division and foretelling the next, married with the Balfour Declaration, where all plurality is condemned as a violation of unity and 'fitna' attributed to external 'projects.'

النفط في المِخيال العربي تقاسيم على مقام السوائل

Oil in the Arab Imaginary: Variations on the Mode of Liquids

Bidayat

Oil is the devil's urine, said Judge al-Hajari — then drank deeply of it. Variations on the mode of liquids: water, tears, semen, blood, and oil.

Variations on an Andalusian Theme – Undated Letters to Etel

From Granada to Cana: civil wars replicate—and water did not turn to wine, "blood simply turned into blood."

A Collective History for Lebanon

Qantara.de

The solid confessional blocs only emerged in the mid-19th century — before that, leaders were secular, and in 1820, Christians, Druze, Shia, and Sunnis rebelled together against taxes.

The New Iraqi Flag: an exercise in identity manipulation

The new Iraqi flag (2004) was identity manipulation under occupation: erasing Arabism and Islam—and successive Iraqi flags record the country's gradual drift from secularism toward religion.

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.