بدايات تختتم عيدها العاشر وتعلّق الصدور مؤقتًا

Bidayat Concludes Its Tenth Anniversary and Temporarily Suspends Publication

Bidayat

After ten years of publication, “Bidayat” magazine is temporarily suspending its work due to funding challenges, hoping to find a qualitative shift that ensures its continuity or concludes its venture.

جميل المعلوف: الاتحاد العربي والعلمانيّة

Jamil al-Maalouf: Arab Union and Secularism

Bidayat

Jamil Maalouf, a pioneer of Arab unity, saw radical secularism, the separation of religion and state, and women's liberation as the key to the East's salvation from its misery and its progress.

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.

مذكرات جارالله عمر

The Memoirs of Jarallah Omar

How could he support one-party rule in the South while fighting to overthrow it in the North? He opposed both war and secession — both sides called him traitor, then assassinated him.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: من الترجمة الى التعريب

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: From Translation to Arabization

Translation is a struggle to make a foreign text authentically Arabic, not just a transfer of words, by disassembling and reassembling the original so it reads as if written in Arabic, which is the essence of "ta'rib."

مثقفون في حوداث الـ١٨٦٠

Intellectuals in the 1860 Events

The 1860 civil war didn't only produce victims — it produced intellectuals. The Nahda wasn't born from "contact with the West" but from the cracks of civil war itself.

قصة حوار لم يتم

The Story of a Dialogue That Never Was

Bidayat

He chose his "inveterate friend" as interviewer, then reclaimed the answers before they were copied. Only the questions remain from a dialogue that never happened.

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.

كتاب لينين “تطوّر الرأسمالية في رُوسيَا”

Lenin's "The Development of Capitalism in Russia"

Lenin's "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" settled the debate with populism, laying the foundations for the Leninist method of applying Marxism to Russian reality, and remains a living model for concrete analysis.

ماركس غسان الرفاعي – هل العودة الى النص الاصلي تجديد أم تجميد؟

Ghassan al-Rifai's Marx - Is Returning to the Original Text Renewal or Freezing?

Bidayat

Return to Marx as fundamentalism: if the text were timeless it wouldn't need 150 years of interpreters — and the Soviet experience was dictatorship, not "underdeveloped democracy."

إدوارد سعيد في «الأسلوب المتأخر» الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style": Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

Lateness is not maturity but "intransigence and unresolved contradiction" — Said concludes with the method of impudence, and with Genet declares imperialism the exportation of identities.

دليل ثوار وثوريين العرب

A Guide to Arab Revolutionaries and Rebels

This is not a museum of revolutionaries but a guide to what revolutions teach: independence is not enough, and defeat itself changes the victor.

محمد دكروب ليس سنديانة

Muhammad Dakroub Is Not an Oak Tree

Dakroub is not an oak — he made of the laborer an intellectual and kept the intellectual a laborer. "The man who walks opens a new horizon with every step."

بيت المنازل الكثيرة – لا يتأسس على الثقافة وحدها

A House of Many Mansions - Is Not Built on Culture Alone

Review: Salibi demolishes all of Lebanon's founding myths — then replaces them with a new "cultural uniqueness." Must Lebanon invent a new distinctiveness after every catastrophe just to survive?

ترجمة النظرية: تجربة شخصية

Translating Theory: A Personal Experience

Translation is temptation and struggle between two languages; its only success is when the text sounds as though it were born in Arabic.

مقابلة مجلة – المستقبل العربي

Al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi Magazine Interview

Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi

From memoir to sectarianism, one thread runs through it all: no Marxism as a closed creed, no unity as nostalgia, but history understood from inside its conflicts.

مقابلة مع أسماء عزايزة

Interview with Asma Azaizeh

Bidayat

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

التعريف والمسيرة

The Definition and the Journey

To history through lived experience rather than the university, and to writing as a way of forging experience: that is how the “young man in red” deepened in color.

وأثر التحولات الراهنة في الفكر العربي المعاصر

The Impact of Current Transformations on Contemporary Arab Thought

What blocks understanding is not a lack of cultural explanations but their excess: “culturalism” erases social reality and reduces politics to identity and religion.

كمال صليبي – مصالحة اللبنانيين مع تاريخهم

Kamal Salibi - Reconciling the Lebanese with Their History

The civil war as a war of narratives over history — Salibi's equation: Arabs will not be Arab again without Arab Christians.

Revolutions bring down ideas as well!

Heinrich Boll Stiftung

Revolutions do not merely change governments; they shatter the ideologies that made those governments seem permanent and legitimate, and undermine decades of intellectual frameworks that naturalized authoritarian rule.

في أدب الصداقة: المهم هو النور

On the Literature of Friendship: What Matters Is the Light

A new book is a loaf of bread, a manuscript aged wine — Marwan waits for light in Berlin. Spring 2011: Bouazizi fulfilled Hikmet's testament: "If we don't all burn, how will darkness become light?"

الثورات تٌسقِط أنظمة الافكار ايضا !

Revolutions Bring Down Systems of Ideas Too!

Al-Akhbar

A quarter-century of "good governance" conferences didn't topple a president — the crowds did it in weeks. Each Saudi prince gets $275,000/month, but The Economist worries about bread subsidies.

إدوارد سعيد في تطوره الفكري

Edward Said in His Intellectual Development

Al-Akhbar

Edward Said's *Orientalism* and his thought were appropriated and reduced by three currents; this reading reconnects it to his intellectual evolution towards democratic secular humanism, highlighting his role as a critical translator.