شهادة في فكر – انطونيو غرامشي

Testimony on the Thought of Antonio Gramsci

They wanted to stop his mind for twenty years — Gramsci produced in prison the theory of "hegemony": ruling-class ideas become "common sense," and law is "the silent force" of coercion.

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."

Mamdouha Bobst Center for Peace and Justice – Princeton lecture

A Princeton lecture: neoliberalism banned "social justice" for a quarter century—and the Arab revolutions diagnosed the problem: unemployment, despotism, class inequality. No military solution to ISIS, only drying up its social sources.

انطونيو غرامشي – ملاحظات عن التاريخ الايطالي – فترة النهضة القومية

Antonio Gramsci - Notes on Italian History - The National Renaissance Period

What matters in Gramsci goes beyond Italy: state, hegemony, and revolutions that cannot be read through class alone, yet make no sense without it.

Reflections on Culture and Folklore in Lebanon

Folklore is the "matrix of every culture": the dabkeh is a pre-monotheistic fertility rite, proverbs are ruins of old tales—and the Rahbanis and Ziad created modern folklore confronting war and hypocrisy.

حوار العربي الجديد

Al-Araby al-Jadeed Interview

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

This diversity is not dispersion: from history to popular culture, one thread runs through it all, writing for the widest possible readership and refashioning experience.

ليس بالثقافة وحدها يحيا الانسان

Man Does Not Live by Culture Alone

When culture turns into a ready-made identity, politics and economics disappear, and a society lacking production is told to settle for a “knowledge society.”

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.