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.

Social Justice Lecture

A lecture: the Arab revolutions are a critique-in-practice of neoliberalism—the World Bank forgot about job creation, and "we are ruled by Ali Baba and the forty thieves—and they don't even reach forty."

مداخلة ندوة الكرامة

Intervention at the Dignity Symposium

The people want the fall of the regime—but rulers fell, not systems, and whoever won power was the most centralized, most ideological force.

Social Justice is back? – Princeton lecture

Is social justice back? Neoliberalism banned it for a quarter century—and the Arab revolutions brought it back with "The people want": a return to the concepts of the national liberation phase.

العروبة والأيديولوجيا القومية: عروبة الحاضر

Arabism and Nationalist Ideology: The Arabism of the Present

Between the glorious past and the promised future lies the entire subject—the present. No Arabism without the value of work against "rentier laziness."

كلمة تقديم لمحاضرة نوام تشومسكي/ الاونسكو

Introductory Remarks for Noam Chomsky's Lecture / UNESCO

Noam Chomsky is presented as a thinker who combines humility with extreme sensitivity to injustice, a critic of American imperialism, an advocate for freedom and equality, and a supporter of resistance against occupation.

Saudi expansion: The Lebanese Connection (1924-1952)

Hussein 'Uwayni—the first "Saudi national" to govern Lebanon, four decades before Hariri—and through him the Kingdom penetrated Lebanese politics: wealth buys honor, and the regional broker makes prime ministers.

The Political Economy of Militia Control – Brown University

Wars have no sense but functions—Lebanese militias achieved the "supreme capitalist phantasm": profit without capital investment, through ten illegal ports and a mafia predation economy.

Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach

The text calls for a critical approach to the concept of the 'public sphere' in the Middle East, emphasizing that democracy requires popular power beyond theoretical debate to confront authoritarianism and the challenges of colonial history.

How to prevent civil war: Remember the last one

The Daily Star

An interview: the simple reason to remember the war is to avoid another—and "constructed amnesia" protects warlords-turned-rulers. The young generation carries a "big black hole."

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.