ملاحظات على خطاب الجنرال غورو

Notes on General Gouraud's Speech

Bidayat

Gouraud laments the absence of Lebanon's delegates — one is absent because he himself ordered his arrest, while his brother the Patriarch sits at his right.

تصوّرات عربيّة لاتفاقيّة سايكس-پيكو الوحدة المقدّسة ورُهاب التقسيم

Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement: Sacred Unity and the Phobia of Partition

Bidayat

A century later, Sykes-Picot has become a myth explaining every division and foretelling the next, married with the Balfour Declaration, where all plurality is condemned as a violation of unity and 'fitna' attributed to external 'projects.'

مئوية سايكس بيكو الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary: Maps and History

Bidayat

The Great Loot: Gouraud raised his glass — "the deal will be profitable!" What the French unified economically, the independentists divided in 1950. One partition Sykes-Picot can't be blamed for.

مؤتمر الحوار الوطني اليمني: البداية المبتورة

The Yemeni National Dialogue Conference: A Truncated Beginning

As-Safir

Yemen's National Dialogue Conference is a major step, but it is fundamentally truncated by the immunity granted to the former president and the marginalization of revolutionary youth and the Southern Movement.

الثورة اليمنية في العام الثالث

The Yemeni Revolution in Its Third Year

As-Safir

The Yemeni revolution enters its third year with a faltering national dialogue and a paralyzed transition, as old regime structures maintain control and the Gulf-American initiative transforms into a counter-revolution.

الدم اليمني في ذكرى الوحدة والانفصال

Yemeni Blood on the Anniversary of Unity and Secession

As-Safir

Yemen commemorates its unity anniversary with blood and separation, after a short-lived unity experiment marred by discrimination, necessitating today a popular referendum on the form of governance, especially in the South.

الاستفتاء على الدستور السوري: النظام الفردي كما هو

The Referendum on the Syrian Constitution: The One-Man Regime as It Is

As-Safir

Multiparty by license, a president who legislates and dissolves at will — dialogue whose results are already issued.

هل الوحدة ممكنة دون مركزية؟ حالة اليمن

Is Unity Possible Without Centralism? The Case of Yemen

As-Safir

Centralism doesn't equal strength — the strongest states are federal, and Arab dictatorships never won against Israel.

نفط وديمقراطية

Oil and Democracy

As-Safir

Amidst events in Sudan, Kurdistan, and Yemen, this text links oil to the absence of democracy and wealth mismanagement, questioning how oil has become an obstacle to unity and a catalyst for separatism.

تأملات استقلالية

Independence Reflections

As-Safir

14 + 8 = 22—make it whatever you want, but it's not and won't be the 22 of independence.

عشرينية الوحدة اليمنية: عندما تصير الوحدوية شريكة الانفصالية 

The Twentieth Anniversary of Yemeni Unity: When Unionism Becomes a Partner of Separatism

As-Safir

Twenty years and the flaw is the authoritarian system — the choice: democracy or separation. Federalism is the minimum, but it needs a southern referendum.

عشرينية الوحدة اليمنية: عنـدما تصيـر الوحدوية شـريكـة الانفـصـاليـة

The Twentieth Anniversary of Yemeni Unity: When Unionism Becomes a Partner of Separatism

As-Safir

Unity turned from hope into domination—the choice: democracy or regression to secession. A southern referendum has become necessary.

السيادة بين دمشق ومزارع شبعا – هل يمكن ان يعود لبنان الى اتفاقية الهدنة؟

Sovereignty Between Damascus and Shebaa Farms - Can Lebanon Return to the Armistice Agreement?

As-Safir

Claiming Shebaa Farms places Lebanon under Resolution 242—"land for peace." The spell meant as a peg for resistance backfired on the sorcerer.

عشرينية «الطائف»: طبِّقوا الدستور!

The Twentieth Anniversary of Taif: Implement the Constitution!

As-Safir

Twenty years after Taif: "rejecting resettlement" is a failed founding myth, and the citizen-sect duality has a constitutional solution never applied. Apply the constitution first.

طائف الذين لا «طائف»/ة لهم: الجرح لا السهم!

The Taif of Those Who Have No Taif: The Wound, Not the Arrow!

As-Safir

The two constitutional articles on abolishing sectarianism remain unapplied—politicians treat the arrow of sectarianism, not the wound. Like tribes that tend the arrow expecting the wound to heal.

الحراك الجنوبي اليمني: الوحدة في الديمقراطية

The Yemeni Southern Movement: Unity Through Democracy

As-Safir

Yemeni unity is in deep crisis after the 1994 war imposed northern dominance over the south, pushing the "Southern Movement" to demand democratic federalism as the only way to save unity from secession and chaos.

Ethnonationalism and the Failed State: Sources of Civil State Fragmentation in the International Political Economy

Ethnonationalist conflicts stem not from ancient hatreds, but from modern state failures that rationally drive individuals towards ethnic and religious identities.

من »الطائف« الى »الدوحة« وما بعد

From Taif to Doha and Beyond

As-Safir

Correcting Taif by reverting to the First Republic: pounding water with water—the entire system desperately needs change.

Do Collective Rights Contribute to Conflict Resolution? The case of Lebanon

Politicized sects are enlarged patronage networks shielding members from the market and covering predation—and the solution lies in the existing constitution: a Senate for sects, a non-sectarian House for citizens, plus social justice.

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

An-Nahar

Translation: Iraqi federalism should be based on the national divide, not the sectarian one—and the occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime. Kirkuk's oil belongs to all Iraqis.

أعيدوا الينا الرئاسة!

Give Us Back the Presidency!

As-Safir

Give back the presidency to the citizens—last month they waited for war on Iran, now for a "password" from Ankara. The solution: direct popular election.

من اجل فيدرالية عربية – كردية في العراق

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

As-Safir

The occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime — federalism is either partition's euphemism or a path to rebuilding unity. Condition: an Arab-Kurdish formula transcending ethnicity and sects.

الاستقلالان: اسئلة التاريخ ودروسه

The Two Independences: Questions of History and Its Lessons

As-Safir

Independence cannot be separated from the sectarian system, which is the primary generator of foreign dependency, rendering true sovereignty in Lebanon a mere illusion.

كي يتحول الكيان الى وطن

For the Entity to Become a Homeland

The entity created in 1920 has never become a homeland — the individual never became a citizen. Every solution carries the seeds of a new crisis, and every disagreement invites foreign intervention.