Edward Said in Translation – The personal and the academic

A lecture on translating Said and the friendship: "Your language is convoluted—I plan to deconstruct it and reconstruct in Arabic." Twenty years barred from the US, and emails about Tahiyya Karioka, Cyd Charisse, and Oslo as "the peace of the weak."

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.

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.

الأمل لا يعني التغاضي عن الانتكاسات مقابلة مع فواز طرابلسي

Hope Does Not Mean Overlooking Setbacks: An Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Bidayat

Marxism gave him the confidence to write about everything — and hope does not mean overlooking setbacks.

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.

حرير وحديد – مقابلة مع سنان أنطون ـ جدلية

Silk and Iron - Interview with Sinan Antoon, Jadaliyya

Jadaliyya

"Silk and Iron," a book born from surplus research for "A Modern History of Lebanon," narrates how individual and collective destinies intertwined in the 19th century through historical facts stranger than fiction.

بريشت – اسئلة العامل

Brecht - Questions from a Worker

Translation of Brecht: Who built Thebes? Books list kings. Caesar defeated the Gauls — didn't he have a cook? Every decade a great man. Who paid the bill?

جوناثن سويفت – اقتراح متواضع

Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal

Translation: Swift proposes selling Ireland's poor children as food for the rich — the most famous dark satire in literature, and the sharpest critique of colonialism.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: منالماغوط إلى لينين الذي يعرفالعربية!

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: From al-Maghut to Lenin Who Knows Arabic!

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

From al-Maghout to Lenin who “knows Arabic”: translation is an obsession whose danger lies in small details.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: مستويات“الخيانة” بين المبنى والمعنى

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: Levels of "Betrayal" Between Form and Meaning

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The test of translation is simple and severe: the text must read as if it were written in Arabic from the start. Everything else is excuse.

عبد الرحمن منيف يؤسِّس لأدب الصداقة – والباهي محمد يحلم بالطُوفان

Abdel Rahman Munif Founds a Literature of Friendship - And al-Bahi Muhammad Dreams of the Deluge

As-Safir

The friend alone is chosen — not the comrade, not the brother. Al-Bahi dreamed of a flood: a new Noah filling the earth with justice. Where are you, great Flood?

On Etel Adnan

A tribute to Etel Adnan: "she transforms noise into velvet," and woman is what man lost since Adam—his paradise lost. "Change the world or go home!"

عشر سنوات على غياب ايميه سيزير١٩١٣-٢٠٠٨، عودة الى الوطن الأم

Ten Years Since the Passing of Aime Cesaire (1913-2008): Return to the Motherland

Al-Hurriya Magazine

On the anniversary of Aimé Césaire's passing, the Martiniquais poet and politician evokes his return to the "Native Land," declaring his commitment to be the mouth of sufferings and the lover of his unique people.

Orientalizing the Orientals: The Other Message of Edward Said

Edward Said's "Orientalism" reveals another, less-discussed message: how Arab intellectuals internalized Orientalist frameworks and reproduced them in their self-representation.

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.

فواز طرابلسي حول كتابه “يا قمر مشغرة”

Fawwaz Traboulsi on His Book "O Moon of Mashghara"

Drawing on a family archive from Mashghara, "Ya Qamar Mashghara" re-historicizes Greater Lebanon from a social and economic perspective, moving beyond narratives that reduce its history to Mount Lebanon or sectarian groups.

عبد الرحمن منيف ينادي الطوفان*

Abdel Rahman Munif Calls for the Deluge

In "Land of Darkness," a project of alternative national modernity. From al-Bahi's testament: "The flood comes and everything becomes possible, and impossible is deleted from the dictionary."

Edward Said’s Orientalism revisited: translations and translators

A reading of Said's evolution: from Orientalism to "Imperialism is the export of identity"—warning against self-orientalizing and Occidentalism alike, and admitting his book sometimes relapses into what it critiques.

Edward Said’s Late Style

Three moments of Said: from critiquing Orientalism to "identity is its owner's creation, not the inheritance of a past"—and reducing imperialism to knowledge/power sanitizes it of occupation and exploitation.

هرطقات الطبقات الدنيا – اول ثورة ديمقراطية

Heresies of the Lower Classes - The First Democratic Revolution

The English Revolution was the first democratic revolution, unleashing the "heresies of the lower classes" that demanded collective land ownership and equality, before being suppressed in favor of the merchant class.