Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach

The text calls for a critical approach to the concept of the 'public sphere' in the Middle East, emphasizing that democracy requires popular power beyond theoretical debate to confront authoritarianism and the challenges of colonial history.

Des bons et mauvais usages du modèle suisse

On the Good and Bad Uses of the Swiss Model

Switzerland of the Orient is a French colonial invention selectively applied—banking without industry, neutrality without an army, federalism only to justify cantons—revealing ideological distortions, not resemblances.