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.

لا تحيّة لهذا العلم!

No Salute to This Flag!

A blue crescent reduces Arabs to Muslims, a yellow line grants Kurds exclusive nationality — Saddam in reverse, and a flag that deserves only to be torn apart in the street.

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."

A Collective History for Lebanon

Qantara.de

The solid confessional blocs only emerged in the mid-19th century — before that, leaders were secular, and in 1820, Christians, Druze, Shia, and Sunnis rebelled together against taxes.

The New Iraqi Flag: an exercise in identity manipulation

The new Iraqi flag (2004) was identity manipulation under occupation: erasing Arabism and Islam—and successive Iraqi flags record the country's gradual drift from secularism toward religion.

Stereotyping the ‘Syrian’ in Lebanon, Arab Stereotyping

Bashir Gemayel reduced eighteen million Syrians to the singular "the Syrian"—and the entire political class adopted this stereotyping that redirects class resentment toward a neighboring people.