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An Invitation to Emulate the Enemy: A Commission to Investigate... Victory

As-Safir

Israel investigates its defeat — let us investigate our victory. Don't condemn America for the one crime it hasn't committed: spreading democracy. The only peace worth having is between the strong.

المسكوت عنه في قانون الإنتخاب

The Unspoken in the Electoral Law

As-Safir

Three-quarters of Lebanese live in cities but vote in villages — what housing and work unite, the electoral system divides. Grandparents control grandchildren.

إعدام الاحكام في إعدام صدّام

Executing Justice in Executing Saddam

As-Safir

A death sentence for accountability itself — one crime from the north, one from the south, as if the center had no victims. Sectarianizing victims instead of accounting for thirty years of policy.

سمير قصير، كيف أضعتك؟

Samir Kassir, How Did I Lose You?

As-Safir

"Samir Kassir, how did I lose you?" is a personal elegy that goes beyond physical loss to a political and intellectual estrangement, as "false heirs" attempt to erase Kassir's true legacy by presenting his final years as his entire life.

خاف الطغاة فقتلوه

The Tyrants Feared Him, So They Killed Him

Tyrants feared him and killed him — because he said with brazen simplicity that democracy is the road to Palestine. A free man whose prisons can no longer hold everyone.

الانقلاب على الثورات

The Coup Against the Revolutions

Bidayat

The coup against the revolutions: removing heads to save systems — only organization defeats organization, only parties defeat parties.

Lebanese Wars: Memory and Forgetfulness

Forgetting is "the life force of memory"—and what Lebanon practiced is programmed amnesia. What is needed is remembering causes—and we need daydreams (hope) as much as memory.

How to prevent civil war: Remember the last one

The Daily Star

An interview: the simple reason to remember the war is to avoid another—and "constructed amnesia" protects warlords-turned-rulers. The young generation carries a "big black hole."

الشرعيات الخارجية على حساب الشرعية الشعبية

External Legitimacies at the Expense of Popular Legitimacy

The Islamist scarecrow justified decades of dictatorship — the uprisings proved jihadism is the exception, and "development reports" explained water with water.

The New Middle East – what’s in a name?

Every time the US hits a dead end in the region it invents a new name—and the priority is now "moderation," not democracy: Rice admitted the "moderates" are not democratic.

Feminizing Politics

Al-Raida

Feminizing politics is not numerical representation but freeing politics from the patriarchy that produces authoritarianism—and the intellectual construction of Arab feminism remains an unfinished project.

Arab Democracy and New Geo-Strategic Realities

The Washington Papers

Has the West tried to impose democracy on us?—No. It exported modernization, not democracy, and always backed authoritarianism. The 1949 Zaim coup was about oil and Israel, not the Cold War.

حال الديمقراطيين العرب: جار الله عمر مثالا

The Condition of Arab Democrats: Jarallah Omar as an Example

He called on religious and secular opposition to work together — then the killer stepped forward and shot him in the chest, believing he was shooting at those goals.

شؤؤن الاوسط

Middle East Affairs

We explained absences—'why no democracy?'—instead of analyzing what exists: the mechanisms of authoritarian systems. Hope, not optimism.

Democracy and Arab Nationalism – SOAS

SOAS

Arab nationalism is not the antithesis of democracy—and "defenders of authenticity" import everything Western except what is progressive. The Iraqi people were punished thrice: by war, betrayal, and blockade.

هرطقات الطبقات الدنيا – اول ثورة ديمقراطية

Heresies of the Lower Classes - The First Democratic Revolution

The English Revolution was the first democratic revolution, unleashing the "heresies of the lower classes" that demanded collective land ownership and equality, before being suppressed in favor of the merchant class.