العمال يؤسسون للديمقراطية والعلمانية

Workers Lay the Foundations for Democracy and Secularism

Bidayat

150 years since the Paris Commune — 72 days of direct democracy, secularism, and social justice. Paris lived in the future and bequeathed the hope that paradise on earth is possible.

١٥٠ عامًا على «عامّية باريس»

150 Years Since the Paris Commune

Bidayat

From the shock of defeat and refusal to surrender, the Paris Commune declared the first experiment in direct democracy, secularism, and social justice, affirming that democracy is a product of popular imagination and struggles.

ميكلوس يانكشو فتنة الثورة واقتتال الإخوة

Miklós Jancsó: The Temptation of Revolution and Fratricidal Strife

Bidayat

Jancsó: where oppression reigns, open space becomes a prison without bars — commissioned for the revolution's anniversary, he made an anti-war film.

ماركس في «ربيع الشعوب» ١٨٤٨ بناء الحقل السياسي والتعلّم من الممارسة

Marx in the "Spring of Nations" 1848: Building the Political Field and Learning from Practice

Bidayat

Marx's engagement with the 1848 revolutions refined his understanding of class representation and the state, leading him to view socialism as the necessary completion of political democracy to resolve the contradiction between political and social inequality.

ماركس في «ربيع الشعوب» ١٨٤٨ – بناء الحقل السياسي والتعلّم من الممارسة

Marx in the "Spring of Nations" 1848 - Building the Political Field and Learning from Practice

Bidayat

While media superficially compared the 'Arab Spring' to the 1848 revolutions without genuine study, this article reclaims Marx's engagement with the 'Spring of Peoples' to offer a profound analysis of revolutionary complexity, class representation, and the role of the state.

مدرسة الكذب الصهيونية

The Zionist School of Lies

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Netanyahu's lie about the Holocaust is merely a link in the Zionist school of fabrication, which reinvents narratives to justify colonization and distort Palestinian resistance.

مارغريت ثاتشر – الارث والجنازة 

Margaret Thatcher - The Legacy and the Funeral

As-Safir

The "milk snatcher" privatized everything; Ken Loach proposed privatizing her funeral — more consistent with her legacy.

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq: An Arab Traveler in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Beyond

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, the rebellious Nahda thinker, bridged the gap between East and West, advocating for freedom, equality, and women's liberation, facing censorship and marginalization.

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 ذكرى ثورة ١٤ تموز الفرنسية: بلى، نستطيع!

On the Anniversary of the French Revolution of July 14: Yes, We Can!

As-Safir

Democracy was never established by democratic means—born in violence, violence being merely the midwife. Can we? Yes, we can.

We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine

As-Safir

Holocaust denial discourse is "a hallucination obsessed with the West"—the crime was European against Europeans, and Nazi theories ranked Arabs lower than Jews. Better to investigate Israel's crimes than to deny the Holocaust.

نحن و«المحرقة» وفلسطين

We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine

As-Safir

A discourse hallucinating on the West — one face compares Zionism to Nazism, the other wishes "if only he'd finished them all." The suspect says "arrest me" — wanting to commit what he denounces.

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.