من المكبوت الفلسطيني-اللبناني نشأة المخيّمات الفلسطينية في لبنان

The Palestinian-Lebanese Taboo: The Genesis of Palestinian Camps in Lebanon

As-Safir

We put them near the cities — to serve businessmen's need for cheap labor: the repressed Palestinian-Lebanese history.

غزة – فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي

Gaza - Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

From the 1982 Beirut siege to Gaza today, the AI-powered brutality of the occupation is revealed against the backdrop of popular resistance, Arab regime complicity, and an unprecedented surge of global solidarity.

ذاكرة 6 حزيران (يونيو) 1967: إعادة الاعتبار إلى تفسير الهزيمة عسكرياً

The Memory of June 6, 1967: Rehabilitating the Military Interpretation of the Defeat

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Dominant interpretations of the 1967 defeat blamed culture or society, ignoring the actual military events, whereas this article uncovers the decisive military moment that led to it.

هبّة فلسطين المستقبل ومستقبل الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي

The Palestine Uprising: The Future and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Bidayat

The recent Palestinian uprising and Israel's 'peace of hegemony' compel Arab and Palestinian forces to reconnect the liberation struggle with national sovereignty and move beyond military reductionism in the face of new regional alliances.

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.'

في خصخصة الجيوش الوطنية

On the Privatization of National Armies

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The privatization of national armies in the confrontation states is the price for suppressing peoples and militarizing their issues, leading to the systematic dismantlement of their role in national defense.

في صداقة ادوارد سعيد

On the Friendship of Edward Said

As-Safir

Edward Said's friendship, which began with a political invitation and a hidden intervention to lift a travel ban, spanned decades of intellectual and political struggle, and transcended controversy to reveal the depth of their bond.

الأزرق من حزيران/ يونيو ١٩٦٧

The Blue of June 1967

As-Safir

A memoir of 1967: in the cell, they hadn't realized we'd lost — and the Baalbeki dreamed of freeing his caged bird, as if Chahine had been among us.

١٩٦٧، ١٩٨٢، ٢٠١٧ الآلة الجهنمية: من الحروب الوطنية الى الحروب الاهلية

1967, 1982, 2017 - The Infernal Machine: From National Wars to Civil Wars

Bidayat

The infernal machine: armies built to fight the enemy shattered against their own peoples — and between 1967 and 2017, we know Guantanamo better than Sednaya.

وعد بلفور: نظرة جديدة مقالتي اليوم في القدس العربي

The Balfour Declaration: A New Look - My Article Today in Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was less about serving Zionism than it was a British pretext to seize the mandate over Palestine under the guise of minority protection, thereby denying the majority of its inhabitants their political rights.

نقاش نقدي لتطبيقات – النموذج الجنوب افريقي على فلسطين

A Critical Discussion of Applications of the South African Model to Palestine

Shu'un Filastiniyya

Applications of the South African model to Palestine overlook the fundamental difference between the two settler projects and neglect the regional conditions and factors that led to apartheid's collapse, thus stripping the 'one-state solution' vision of its practical struggle.

To What Extent Does the South African Apartheid Model Apply to Palestine?

Journal of Palestine Studies

A translation: the apartheid model does not automatically apply to Palestine—what actually brought it down was resistance strength on the ground and changed US support, and Palestinian go-it-alone is understandable but detrimental without Arab depth.

١٥ ايار السوري

Syria's May 15

As-Safir

The Syrian regime responded to Israeli airstrikes with declarations about opening the Golan and its resistance, and by conflating the external enemy with the internal one to justify continuing the civil war.

الدولة الفلسطينية المراقِبة وإحياء السياسة

The Palestinian Observer State and the Revival of Politics

As-Safir

The "symbol" Arafat was reburied — but a symbol cannot be buried. There should be no need to bury him a third time.

غزة – مشهد ما بعد المعركة

Gaza - The Post-Battle Scene

As-Safir

The aggression on Gaza required a criminal provocation to draw Hamas into battle, but it places Arab policies towards the conflict at the heart of the present and necessitates connecting the national cause with the masses' movement for freedom and justice.

قال الذئب للحَمَل

Said the Wolf to the Lamb

As-Safir

The wolf told the lamb: you muddied my water — one overflight versus thousands of Israeli violations, and no one listens.

حوار هادئ: فواز طرابلسي يرد على خطاب نصرالله في الموضوع السوري

A Calm Dialogue: Fawwaz Traboulsi Responds to Nasrallah's Speech on the Syrian Issue

As-Safir

Bahrain's king's absolute powers are no greater than Assad's under his "reform" constitution — Nasrallah mourns four security chiefs but not their hundreds of thousands of victims.

١٥ ايار ٢٠١٢: نقاط على حروف الذكرى

May 15, 2012: Setting the Record Straight on the Anniversary

As-Safir

Darwish: "Show me the Israeli surrender project so I can sign it" — the Third Intifada is a necessity, not a fantasy.

مقاومة+مقاومة = مقاومتان – الى ذكر شهداء ١٣ نيسان ١٩٦٩

As-Safir

Two resistances, not one: why resistance cannot be the property of any single sect or party.

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت صيف ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut, Summer 1982

Days with Darwish in the siege — he read us "Read in the name of the fedayee who created from a boot a horizon." I am a poet, not a fighter.

موارد اليأس الذي لا يُهزم

Resources of an Invincible Despair

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Jerusalem's knives are knives of despair — youth resisting not for victory but against surrender. "No force can defeat this despair — and that is the hope."

Does Guilt Matter?

Does guilt matter in politics? The paper interrogates the suppression of collective guilt in post-war Lebanon, calling for the restoration of the memory of causes, not just violence, as a condition for conscious forgetting that enables coexistence.

الدولة اليهودية: ماذا في التسمية الجديدة؟

The Jewish State: What's in the New Name?

As-Safir

From "State of Israel" to "state of the Jewish people" — religious definition replacing majority with sacred right. In another time, the answer: Palestine is Arab.

الوقاحة بما هي سياسة دولية

Impudence as International Policy

As-Safir

Lieberman inverts the Arab initiative: not land for peace but population exchange—legalizing the expulsion of '48 Palestinians. Impudence as international policy.