ميكلوس يانكشو فتنة الثورة واقتتال الإخوة

Miklós Jancsó: The Temptation of Revolution and Fratricidal Strife

Bidayat

Jancsó: where oppression reigns, open space becomes a prison without bars — commissioned for the revolution's anniversary, he made an anti-war film.

يوسف عبدلكي والتفاصيل المشاغِبة    

Youssef Abdelke and the Rebellious Details

An engraving looks like passion until the details reveal rape — the title: "The Director General." His grotesques try to match the super-grotesqueness of our "reality."

فن رندا مداح – او التعلّق بحبال الهوا

The Art of Randa Maddah - Or Hanging from the Ropes of the Wind

A woman suspended like her homeland the Golan — she responds to live bullets with photography by live bullets, and a people in their savage freedom "hanging by threads of air."

حفريات السماء – حفريات الارض

Excavations of the Sky - Excavations of the Earth

What began with a plane landing in Damascus ended in barrel bombs above and wells dug below: modernity from the sky, resistance from the ground.

L’art de Randa Mdah – Ou l’art suspendu aux cordes du vent

The Art of Randa Maddah - Or Art Hanging from the Ropes of the Wind

Randa Mdah draws with real bullets to say that real bullets kill—and the Golan hangs between foreign occupation and familiar tyranny, "suspended on the ropes of the wind."

السحابة بظهرها المحني

The Cloud with Its Hunched Back

The jailer is one, and poetry's remaining task is to turn cloud, wheat, and despair into a language of resistance.

هاينر موللر – ومسرح العدوان على الواقع

Heiner Muller - And the Theatre of Aggression Against Reality

Heiner Muller's theatre does not explain reality; it attacks it: a little state makes comedy, too much of it makes tragedy.

رجلٌ ظننته شجرة

A Man I Thought Was a Tree

Bruno is not the one standing on his head — our world is upside down. Flip him over so he can walk: "The man who walks opens a new horizon with every step."

مقابلة مع أسماء عزايزة

Interview with Asma Azaizeh

Bidayat

When art enters history, the false certainties crack: maps are dismantled, wars are read through paintings, and revolutions are seen from inside their contradictions.

عمر اميرالاي

Omar Amiralay

He saw the dam cracking and heard the people say: I am the river — how painful that he is not among us to share "the flood in the land of the Arabs."

في تكريم اتيل عدنان

In Honor of Etel Adnan

She captures Duke Ellington in five words: "He turns noise into velvet" — and tells the poets: "Change the world or go home!"

محيي الدين اللبّاد وثقافة العين

Mohieddin al-Labbad and the Culture of the Eye

A lifetime project to revive Arab eye culture: the book as hospitality — three-quarters for the writer, one-quarter blank for the reader. Before al-Jahiz's duck: "This is not a duck!"

ماذا ينفع الشعور بالذنب؟

What Good Is Guilt?

The "culture of humiliation" is surprised by revolutions — and Israel's "David" had double the combined Arab armies in '48. In civil wars: a duty to remember and a necessity to forget.

ادوارد سعيد في «الاسلوب المتأخر» – الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style" - Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

"Intellectual impudence" is the method in Edward Said's "On Late Style," where creators reject conformity, embrace contradiction, and remain "out of place" and against the current until the very end.

عن الكاثار والشَرّّ وما يرسمون

On the Cathars, Evil, and What They Paint

Once the world is judged evil in itself, no one comes out pure; tragedy is dragged in with the verdict.

تقديم: الملصقات بوصفها أسلحة

Introduction: Posters as Weapons

You can only forget what you know — a tank driver in Basra aimed at a Saddam portrait and sparked an uprising. Posters are weapons.

جون برجر

John Berger

In an elegy for John Berger, the author recalls a friendship and a teacher who changed his view of the world, teaching the eye to read the beautiful and the hidden, and how to struggle against 'the great defeat of the world' by drawing inspiration from Palestinian steadfastness.