من المكبوت الفلسطيني-اللبناني نشأة المخيّمات الفلسطينية في لبنان

The Palestinian-Lebanese Taboo: The Genesis of Palestinian Camps in Lebanon

As-Safir

We put them near the cities — to serve businessmen's need for cheap labor: the repressed Palestinian-Lebanese history.

هل كانت الحرب حتمية؟

Was the War Inevitable?

The war was not inevitable: the Lebanese Front militarized the conflict, the bourgeoisie blocked reform, and social pressure burst through the sectarian fault.

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."

محمود درويش: ذكاء القلب

Mahmoud Darwish: The Intelligence of the Heart

Jadaliyya

What is death? Its color is white. Watch your heart — for others it's ordinary, for you it's a means of production. Death is the only crime for which there is no punishment.

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.

رؤوف مسعد عن حصار بيروت

Raouf Massad on the Siege of Beirut

Writer Raouf Massad recalls his memories of the 1982 siege of Beirut, bringing to mind Naji al-Ali, Saadallah Wannous, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and others who shared the experience of resistance and steadfastness.

من سويسرا الشرق إلى هانوي العرب تاريخ مختصر لصورة بيروت

From the Switzerland of the East to the Hanoi of the Arabs: A Brief History of Beirut's Image

Bidayat

Beirut, port for assembling cities — from "Switzerland of the East" to "Hanoi of the Arabs": every image has its political and class context.

جورج البطل، آخر البلاشفة ٢ شيوعيّون في «حوادث الـ٥٨»

George al-Batal, the Last Bolshevik (2): Communists in the 1958 Crisis

Bidayat

"You're good at demonstrations but can't shoot," Jumblatt told them — so the communists smuggled three hundred weapons past his own checkpoints.

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.

Interview L’Orient Le Jour – “Fratricide et guerre civile”

L'Orient Le Jour Interview - "Fratricide and Civil War"

L'Orient Le Jour

An interview about The Blood of the Two Brothers: in civil war, the executioner hides in the victim's body—what is needed is not remembering the horrors but remembering the causes.

توضيح من فواز طرابلسي: لنتذكر الأسباب والدروس في الحروب الاهلية وننسى العنف

A Clarification from Fawwaz Traboulsi: Let Us Remember the Causes and Lessons of Civil Wars, and Forget the Violence

Al-Akhbar

Remember causes and lessons, forget the violence — the opposite of the illusion that reminding people of massacres prevents wars. Reducing war to sectarianism is explaining water by water.

تقديم كتاب “دم الاخوين”

Introduction to the Book "Blood of the Two Brothers"

Civil violence and art from the Cathars to drones — the Cathars' tragedy: they convinced themselves the world is evil, so they became the evil.

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.

انقلابات الجنرال ميشال عون

The Coups of General Michel Aoun

The longest coup: a quarter-century from Baabda to Baabda — the "sovereignty" champion allied with those he accused and broke every promise.

Incurable Hope

Extracts from the siege diary: an Israeli officer says "Palestinians are an epidemic"—asked about the resemblance to Hitler, he answers: "Yes." And "boutiques equal the number of martyrs."

سليمان تقي الدين، وداعاً

Suleiman Taqi al-Din, Farewell

Bidayat

He never stopped fighting in life, and never stopped fighting in death — and the red star remained his compass after the comrades dispersed.

اليمن في عين العاصفة

Yemen in the Eye of the Storm

Bidayat

The richest Arab states bomb the poorest — the Gulf Initiative destroyed Yemen by pardoning the dictator. Camp David summit: an arms fair, not a diplomatic forum.

١٣ نيسان: تأملات لبنانية-سورية

April 13: Lebanese-Syrian Reflections

As-Safir

From the anniversary of April 13, Lebanon and Syria parallel each other in the transformation of popular movements into civil wars, with the Syrian regime bearing primary responsibility for declaring war on its people.

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.

العنف في الحروب الاهلية: القنّاص والمنتقم

Violence in Civil Wars: The Sniper and the Avenger

Bidayat

In civil wars, the language of war singularizes the enemy to justify collective punishment, turning the sniper and avenger into instruments of absurd violence that fragments society and makes the enemy latent within each individual.

30 على انطلاقة «جمول»: شهادة عن فترة التأسيس

30 Years Since the Launch of the LNRF: Testimony on the Founding Period

Bidayat

Don't shoot us, we're withdrawing — the Israeli army left Beirut after JAMOUL operations reached one every five hours.

العنف في الحروب الأهلية: القبيلة والمقدّس والمعجزة

Violence in Civil Wars: The Tribe, the Sacred, and the Miraculous

Bidayat

In civil wars, sects transform into monsters that draw justifications for violence from tribalism and the sacred, redefining the "stranger," beatifying leaders, and manufacturing miracles to purify the "sanctuary."

من الوثائق الرسمية الاميركية التدخل العسكري السوري في لبنان، ١٩٧٦

From Official American Documents: Syria's Military Intervention in Lebanon, 1976

Bidayat

Kissinger claimed Washington "was not consulted" about Syria's intervention — the official documents narrate the coordination in detail.

العنف في الحروب الاهلية – القنّاص والمنتقم

Violence in Civil Wars - The Sniper and the Avenger

The sniper and the avenger are two archetypes of violence in civil wars, where civilians are killed without fault, justice transforms into futile revenge, and everyone discovers that the enemy has become internalized.