أزمة الانفجار وانفجار الازمات اللبنانية

The Explosion Crisis and the Explosion of Lebanese Crises

Bidayat

The Beirut explosion, a "crime of negligence," laid bare a system of corruption and unaccountability, whose repercussions are now escalating into political, economic, and sovereign crises.

ماذا يستطيع الحراك؟ جدل المتخيّل والضروري

What Can the Movement Do? The Dialectic of the Imagined and the Necessary

Bidayat

The Hirak faces a paradox between the dream of radical change and the necessity of resisting the crisis; if it keeps demanding the impossible without achieving the necessary, it will fail to secure the rights of the popular majority.

interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian revolution

An interview (2013): "Syrian revolutionaries owe nobody an apology"—militarization was forced by the regime, and the US seeks to salvage regimes through a military-Islamist assemblage. The opposition must crystallize its vision now.

Hezbollah’s New Political Platform

As-Safir

Translation: Hezbollah abandoned the Islamic state and Wilayat al-Faqih—but its new platform accepts full partnership in the confessional system and its economic conditions. "Order is from faith"—or from serving bankers?

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.

جنازة صاروخ

A Rocket's Funeral

As-Safir

Not a rocket's funeral but an illusion's — "they study their defeat to learn, while we don't even acknowledge our victory." The camel remains and Sharon fades.

Lebanon on the Brink

As-Safir

Translation from as-Safir after Gemayel's assassination: sectarian division invites external domination since 1867—and when the Lebanese unite, they do so despite the confessional system and against it.

Calling Things by Their Name

The Hezbollah-FPM alliance is rooted in shared marginalization, and the confessional system is a "regime of obstruction" forcing people to squeeze rights through pinholes—"Do we change the system or the people?"

Lebanon in the Middle East Peace Talks: Player or Bargaining Card?

The Oxford International Review

Lebanon between the Syrian-Israeli "condominium": player in the peace talks or bargaining card? Ghazi Kanaan: "Let the Lebanese trade and leave politics to the Syrians."