هذا العدد

This Issue

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This issue delves into neoliberalism and consumer society, revealing how they reshape cities, transport, and social relations, leading to segregation, privatization, and new forms of wealth display.

Edward Said in Translation – The personal and the academic

A lecture on translating Said and the friendship: "Your language is convoluted—I plan to deconstruct it and reconstruct in Arabic." Twenty years barred from the US, and emails about Tahiyya Karioka, Cyd Charisse, and Oslo as "the peace of the weak."

الأمل لا يعني التغاضي عن الانتكاسات مقابلة مع فواز طرابلسي

Hope Does Not Mean Overlooking Setbacks: An Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Marxism gave him the confidence to write about everything — and hope does not mean overlooking setbacks.

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.

مقابلة مع أسماء عزايزة

Interview with Asma Azaizeh

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

Giordano Bruno is a bronze tree

Giordano Bruno was burned on wood and sculpted from wood—he is not the one standing upside down, our world is.

Variations on an Andalusian Theme – Undated Letters to Etel

From Granada to Cana: civil wars replicate—and water did not turn to wine, "blood simply turned into blood."

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!"

On Etel Adnan

A tribute to Etel Adnan: "she transforms noise into velvet," and woman is what man lost since Adam—his paradise lost. "Change the world or go home!"

تعريب ادوارد سعيد

Arabizing Edward Said

A promise to Said: "I'll make you speak Arabic" — Arabization as musical rearrangement: not the same piece, but the feelings remain.

عن الأندلس وحرب العراق وقانارسائل إلى إيتل عدنان

On Al-Andalus, the Iraq War, and Qana - Letters to Etel Adnan

An-Nahar

From Granada to Cana: "blood turned into... blood." Samaha mutters "Why?" then: "What a stupid question!"

عن الاندلس وحرب العراق وقانا – رسائل الى اتيل عدنان

On Al-Andalus, the Iraq War, and Qana - Letters to Etel Adnan

An-Nahar

A surgical "error" of terrifying precision killed 108 in Qana — Joseph Samaha walks out of the mass grave: "Why?" Then: "What a stupid question!"

بيروت ٢٨ – نون والقلم

Beirut 28 - Nun wal-Qalam

A translation of Etel Adnan's poem on the siege of Beirut 1982: "Name your children Deir Yassin and Sabra and Shatila so we do not forget"—and poets are called to change the world or stay home.