سودان: الثورة السلمية في عظمتها وحدودها

Bidayat

A train departed Atbara carrying a revolution. Eight months later, crowds celebrated a constitutional document — joyful yet wary of what the generals might concede.

الثورة السلمية في عظمتها وحدودها

The Peaceful Revolution in Its Greatness and Its Limits

Bidayat

The Sudanese peaceful revolution succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship and imposing a partnership with the military, but it faces major challenges in holding perpetrators accountable and securing genuine civilian authority over the army and security forces.

عودة علي شريعتي

The Return of Ali Shariati

Bidayat

Nasrallah and Khamenei declare Shariati's era over — insisting it has "passed" only confirms it is returning: "Red Shiism" vs. "Black."

حروب الردّة

Wars of Counter-Revolution

Bidayat

Jihadi-Takfirism isn't born of "revolutionary chaos" but of regime repression — it builds nothing, carries no cause, and punishes society for its otherness.

الرأسمالية المؤمنة و«الدولة المدنية»

Believing Capitalism and the "Civil State"

As-Safir

A "believing bourgeoisie" captures the state — the "Renaissance Project" follows World Bank dictates so faithfully that the Bank itself applauds.

الثورات في المرحلة الانتقالية

Revolutions in the Transitional Phase

Bidayat

Four rulers fell but "transitional phases" became new battlegrounds — Heikal dismissed the Brotherhood's "Renaissance Project" as meaningless words. Yemen's precedent: a coup in civilian clothing.

نوادر الزمان في بلاد الالمان

Curiosities of the Age in the Land of the Germans

From “Khamas” to pork and the headscarf, Berlin's anecdotes are not all that funny: they show an ignorance so confident it feels entitled to lecture the world.

Yemen Elections

On the eve of unified Yemen's first elections: will the regime combine the best of both experiences or return to one-man rule? Education reform faces demands to restore Sharia as the sole source of legislation.

الاسلاميون في القول والفعل 

The Islamists in Word and Deed

As-Safir

They forbid usury but sanctify profit and replace social rights with charity meat — the "civil state" is dhimmi status in new language.

Does Guilt Matter?

Does guilt matter in politics? The paper interrogates the suppression of collective guilt in post-war Lebanon, calling for the restoration of the memory of causes, not just violence, as a condition for conscious forgetting that enables coexistence.

ما بين اليمن والسودان – لا يظهر دوماً للعيان 

Between Yemen and Sudan - What Is Not Always Visible

As-Safir

Two rulers by coup, allied with Islamists then purged them, invited al-Qaeda—everything they share serves a single goal: staying in power.

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?

ما بين بوش وبن لادن من ليبرالية

The Liberalism Between Bush and Bin Laden

As-Safir

Bin Laden promises Americans: no taxes in Islam—2.5% instead of 30%. The millionaire sheikh is more liberal than the most extreme Republican, and closer to Bush than either would admit.

Senile Orientalism

Allah will know his own: Lewis attributed a Catholic Crusader phrase to Islam—and his real argument is that Iran has no right to what Israel already possesses in nuclear warheads.

Modern Arab Feminism

Arab women's rights are the first concession to fundamentalism—and since 1929, Nazirah Zayn al-Din's question stands: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute for the kingdoms you have lost?"

An Intelligent Man’s Guide to Modern Arab Feminism

Al-Shidyaq saw the repression of female instinct as the foundation of male domination—and Nazirah Zayn al-Din asked: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute kingdom for the kingdoms you have lost?"

Arab Democracy and New Geo-Strategic Realities

The Washington Papers

Has the West tried to impose democracy on us?—No. It exported modernization, not democracy, and always backed authoritarianism. The 1949 Zaim coup was about oil and Israel, not the Cold War.

Democracy and Arab Nationalism – SOAS

SOAS

Arab nationalism is not the antithesis of democracy—and "defenders of authenticity" import everything Western except what is progressive. The Iraqi people were punished thrice: by war, betrayal, and blockade.