Ahmad Faris Shidyaq: An Arab Traveller in 19th Century Europe

Shidyaq: a deacon who converted, the first Arab socialist—and 121 years on, his Muslim name still embarrasses his Maronite village.

الأسرار الفعلية في كتاب ألان مينارغ:” أسرار حرب لبنان”

The Real Secrets in Alain Menargues' Book: "Secrets of the Lebanon War"

As-Safir

Behind the slogan of "protecting the constitution," Bashir Gemayel's actual project was a military-militia coup to establish a federal state under Maronite hegemony—and the LF's own documents are the witness.

Edward Said’s Orientalism revisited: translations and translators

A reading of Said's evolution: from Orientalism to "Imperialism is the export of identity"—warning against self-orientalizing and Occidentalism alike, and admitting his book sometimes relapses into what it critiques.

Cruelty and silence in perspective – on Kanan Makiya’s book

Makiya cuts quotes to prove a uniquely Arab "cruelty"—while he himself worked for Saddam's regime: "somebody had to do it."