أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut 1982

During the 1982 siege, Darwish read: "In the name of the fedayeen who created / from a boot, a horizon" — then locked himself in to write "Memory for Forgetfulness": "We only saw our image on Lebanon's polished stone."

هبّة فلسطين المستقبل ومستقبل الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي

The Palestine Uprising: The Future and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Bidayat

The recent Palestinian uprising and Israel's 'peace of hegemony' compel Arab and Palestinian forces to reconnect the liberation struggle with national sovereignty and move beyond military reductionism in the face of new regional alliances.

١٩٦٧، ١٩٨٢، ٢٠١٧ الآلة الجهنمية: من الحروب الوطنية الى الحروب الاهلية

1967, 1982, 2017 - The Infernal Machine: From National Wars to Civil Wars

Bidayat

The infernal machine: armies built to fight the enemy shattered against their own peoples — and between 1967 and 2017, we know Guantanamo better than Sednaya.

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.

فن رندا مداح – او التعلّق بحبال الهوا

The Art of Randa Maddah - Or Hanging from the Ropes of the Wind

A woman suspended like her homeland the Golan — she responds to live bullets with photography by live bullets, and a people in their savage freedom "hanging by threads of air."

L’art de Randa Mdah – Ou l’art suspendu aux cordes du vent

The Art of Randa Maddah - Or Art Hanging from the Ropes of the Wind

Randa Mdah draws with real bullets to say that real bullets kill—and the Golan hangs between foreign occupation and familiar tyranny, "suspended on the ropes of the wind."

السحابة بظهرها المحني

The Cloud with Its Hunched Back

The jailer is one, and poetry's remaining task is to turn cloud, wheat, and despair into a language of resistance.

To What Extent Does the South African Apartheid Model Apply to Palestine?

Journal of Palestine Studies

A translation: the apartheid model does not automatically apply to Palestine—what actually brought it down was resistance strength on the ground and changed US support, and Palestinian go-it-alone is understandable but detrimental without Arab depth.

فلسطين تنتفض ضد أوسلو الاقتصادي

Palestine Rises Against Economic Oslo

As-Safir

The Palestinian uprising against austerity reveals that 'economic Oslo' is the foundation of political subservience, and that high prices and unemployment are a cry against this dependency.

موارد اليأس الذي لا يُهزم

Resources of an Invincible Despair

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Jerusalem's knives are knives of despair — youth resisting not for victory but against surrender. "No force can defeat this despair — and that is the hope."

الوقاحة بما هي سياسة دولية

Impudence as International Policy

As-Safir

Lieberman inverts the Arab initiative: not land for peace but population exchange—legalizing the expulsion of '48 Palestinians. Impudence as international policy.

دولة اسرائيل «الدفاعية»

The "Defensive" State of Israel

As-Safir

Israel, the "defense" state—settlers arrived and "defended" with massacres and expulsion, naming their army "Defense Forces" while it invades five countries.

التفاصيل الشيطانية ليست بتفاصيل

The Devil's Details Are Not Details

As-Safir

When occupier and victim are placed on equal footing, the door opens to naked force — devilish details, but not mere details.

إنزعوا سلاح المستوطنين!

Disarm the Settlers!

As-Safir

Settlers carry militia weapons and one assassinated an Israeli PM—demand their disarmament. A simple proposal needing no grand strategies.

ذلك الاسبوع من أيلول

That Week of September

As-Safir

Sabra-Shatila: the practical application of "rejecting resettlement"—displacement through massacre. Now leaders trade "resettlement" as a cipher, unable even to form a cabinet.

التقصير!

Negligence!

As-Safir

Israel destroys Gaza and Arab oil funds the rebuilding—not once has an Arab demanded Israel pay compensation for its wars.

محرقة »الامن« 

The Holocaust of "Security"

As-Safir

He who does not strengthen war capabilities does not strengthen peace—Palestine transformed from national liberation into protecting the colonizer from its victims. No liberation without change.

لكي لا تُهزم غزة – دور للجماهير العربية

So That Gaza Is Not Defeated - A Role for the Arab Masses

As-Safir

Amidst the aggression on Gaza, Arab masses are urged to move beyond the paralysis and complicity of regimes, pressuring them to halt normalization and suspend agreements so that the resistance is not defeated.

شارون والجمل

Sharon and the Camel

As-Safir

The camel is dangerous because it remembers and never forgets and endures — but most dangerous is that it finally rises and shows no mercy. Sharon is gone and the camel remains, with all the time in the world.

شهادة عن فترة تأسيس «جبهة المقاومة الوطنية اللبنانية»

Testimony on the Founding Period of the Lebanese National Resistance Front

As-Safir

A direct testimony about the clandestine founding of the Lebanese National Resistance Front (Jammoul) in the final days of the 1982 Siege of Beirut, and its role in accelerating the Israeli occupation's withdrawal.

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."

Beirut-Guernica: A City and a Painting 

Middle East Report (MERIP)

Parallel to Guernica, Beirut shows how besieged cities transform into concentrated laboratories of modern political crisis, where the contradictions and catastrophes of Arab history are condensed into a single image.

بيروت ٢٨ – نون والقلم

Beirut 28 - Nun wal-Qalam

A translation of Etel Adnan's poem on the siege of Beirut 1982: "Name your children Deir Yassin and Sabra and Shatila so we do not forget"—and poets are called to change the world or stay home.