Memoirs AR History Politics 2023 Bidayat

مجموعة «لبنان الاشتراكي» السنوات الأولى ١٩٦٥-١٩٦٨

The "Socialist Lebanon" Group: The Early Years 1965-1968

Bidayat

From the heart of the "Lebanon Socialist" experience and its self-critique, a contemporary question emerges: Can social justice, by ensuring equal opportunities and fair resource distribution, socio-economically hollow out sectarianism and curb sectarian grievances?

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Memoirs AR History Politics 2019 Bidayat

مذكرات جورج بطل ٣ فرج الله حلو في موقفه الجريء وعزله واستشهاده

The Memoirs of George al-Batal 3: Farajallah al-Helou in His Courageous Stance, His Isolation, and His Martyrdom

Bidayat

I am Farajallah Helou, there is no other responsible person — his last words before torture killed him and acid dissolved his body. Heikal denied he ever existed.

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Memoirs AR History Politics 2017 Bidayat

جورج البطل، آخر البلاشفة مذكرات قائد شيوعي من لبنان

George al-Batal, the Last of the Bolsheviks: Memoirs of a Communist Leader from Lebanon

Bidayat

At age five he insisted on what he knew despite his father's slap, and solved a murder — the tannery taught him that a generous employer curses communists when a worker carries a clock.

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Articles AR History 2012 Bidayat

تصفية حسات مع التجربة السوفييتية: تقييم ودروس

Settling Accounts with the Soviet Experience: An Assessment and Lessons

Bidayat

Settling scores with the Soviet experience: a project that claimed equality by sacrificing freedom, demonstrating that democracy is a fundamental condition for socialism, not an addition to it.

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2009 As-Safir

لبنان بحاجة الى يسار

Lebanon Needs a Left

As-Safir

Lebanon is in dire need of a renewed left to rebalance the political scene and offer a secular democratic alternative, as political forces drift rightward, entrenching inequalities and external dependence.

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Interviews AR Political Economy Politics 2008 Al-Bawsala

مقابلة البوصلة

Al-Bawsala Interview

Al-Bawsala

In a world where capitalism claims victory and absorption of left-wing demands, the interview reveals this to be a superficial re-framing that exacerbates capitalism's crises and challenges the Left to renew its vision.

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Memoirs AR History Politics 2008 As-Safir

جوزيف سماحة: التوأم!

Joseph Samaha: The Twin!

As-Safir

They call him "Fawwaz" and call me "Joseph" — a twinship. He wrote editorials like dancing dabke: you never know where the blow will land. Who allowed you to take half of me and leave?

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2007 As-Safir

اللبنانيون راضون

The Lebanese Are Satisfied

As-Safir

Carlos Ghosn advises Lebanon: "only do what is easy." The neighbor on her balcony says "God damn this country"—perhaps reminding us the country is us.

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Talks & Panels AR History Politics 2006 Al-Akhbar

في الذكرى الاولى للرفيق جورج حاوي 

On the First Anniversary of Comrade George Hawi

Al-Akhbar

Whoever killed Hawi was exhausted by his defining trait: independence. The left needs rebuilding — Hawi the inventor, the risk-taker, no change without risk.

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Talks & Panels AR History Politics 2005 Al-Akhbar

كلمة فواز طرابلسي في تشييع الفقيد سليمان تقي الدين

Fawwaz Traboulsi's Eulogy at the Funeral of Suleiman Taqi al-Din

Al-Akhbar

He never stopped fighting in life or in death — his elegance inhabited a body made of dreams and the metal of will.

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Interviews AR Politics 1990 As-Safir

مقابلة ثناء

Thana'a Interview

As-Safir

Interview: intellectual journey from Ba'ath to the new left — from war to exile and return. The Lebanese left's experience and the question of democracy and socialism.

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