تمرين في الترجمة

An Exercise in Translation

As-Safir

How are globalization's terms like transparency and transitional justice translated in the Arab world to become a cover for plundering wealth and exempting ruling families from accountability?

ردّ على غسان عيّاش حول أرباح المصارف

A Reply to Ghassan Ayyash on Bank Profits

As-Safir

Lebanon loses while its banks profit—"be sure there's no connection." Banking profitability is sacred—the sacred hides the profane.

فلسطين تنتفض ضد أوسلو الاقتصادي

Palestine Rises Against Economic Oslo

As-Safir

The Palestinian uprising against austerity reveals that 'economic Oslo' is the foundation of political subservience, and that high prices and unemployment are a cry against this dependency.

الشعب يريد… في السودان ايضا

The People Want... In Sudan Too

As-Safir

The people want... in Sudan too — IMF-dictated austerity under military authoritarianism with an Islamic beard.

اليسار في الزمن الثوري

The Left in Revolutionary Times

Bidayat

The Arab revolutions are a critique-by-practice of neoliberalism — the World Bank admitted the metric it imposed for 25 years doesn't solve unemployment. Democracy is the road to socialism.

No Freedom Without Equality

Heinrich Boll Stiftung

There is no genuine freedom without social equality; separating political liberty from economic justice empties it of its content and renders it an illusion.

وأثر التحولات الراهنة في الفكر العربي المعاصر

The Impact of Current Transformations on Contemporary Arab Thought

What blocks understanding is not a lack of cultural explanations but their excess: “culturalism” erases social reality and reduces politics to identity and religion.

The Left in Time of Revolution

Bidayat

A founding essay in Bidayat: the Arab uprisings are a movement against neoliberalism—"the people want" is popular sovereignty above all others, and "work, freedom, bread" places unemployment at the heart of democracy.

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.

انها المؤامرة

It Is the Conspiracy

As-Safir

How comfortable the conspiracy — always exposed, always succeeding. Yassin al-Hafez: instead of "conspiracy" say "interests"; instead of "victim" say "inability."

رأسمالية بلا مصالح – وامبريالية من دون استغلال 

Capitalism Without Interests - And Imperialism Without Exploitation

Al-Akhbar

Debate: capitalism without interests, imperialism without exploitation — post-colonialism replaces the thing with its image. Arafat asked for "understanding" in exchange for oil; the demand degraded to "some interest."

الففر والنيوليبرالية والإحسان

Poverty, Neoliberalism, and Charity

As-Safir

Heaven for the poor — no share of this world? Charity preserves hierarchy while taxes universalize. The poor's share remains growing poverty.

الكازينو الفضيحة

The Casino Scandal

As-Safir

The Jericho casino: built for Israeli gamblers because gambling is banned in Israel for religious reasons—Palestinians barred from entry. Oslo's economic symbol.

الُمرابي والمديون

The Usurer and the Debtor

As-Safir

Banks profit billions while the state borrows abroad to pay them — the only subsidized commodity is the confessions. This state deserves demolition.

أسواق وجدران وأبراج

Markets, Walls, and Towers

As-Safir

The Berlin Wall fell and the world's biggest wall-building workshop opened—Israel's "devouring wall" steals land while segregating, and the Burj Khalifa is globalization's Babel.

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.

Interview on Noam Chomsky

LBC

Fawwaz Traboulsi reviews Noam Chomsky's dual significance as a linguist and critical thinker who exposes mechanisms of power, applying his approach to contemporary Lebanese and Arab issues, warning against the nation's transformation into client states due to the criminal use of oil.

تأميم الخسائر وتخصيص الارباح

Nationalizing Losses and Privatizing Profits

As-Safir

Samir Amin: what's happening is "nationalizing losses and privatizing profits"—the state rescues the rich and charges the poor. Resisting starts with inverting the equation.

الفقر إنْ جاع…

When Poverty Goes Hungry...

As-Safir

A child dies of hunger every five seconds—the FAO decides to "eliminate" it without funds or deadlines. "Poverty, when it hungers, devours the king"—what when the poor man is the hungry?

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.

السيادة العراقية بين الاتفاق الامني وخصخصة النفط

Iraqi Sovereignty Between the Security Agreement and the Privatization of Oil

As-Safir

The occupation exits through the military window and returns through the oil gate—Basra follows Kurdistan in privatizing Iraq's wealth.

فواز طرابلسي لـ«الوقت»: نشهد سقوط الأوهام.. وإضعاف الدولة لا يقوّي الحريات

Fawwaz Traboulsi to Al-Waqt: We Are Witnessing the Fall of Illusions... Weakening the State Does Not Strengthen Freedoms

Al-Waqt

The global financial crisis shatters liberal illusions about the market and state intervention, affirming that weakening the state in our countries disintegrates society and does not strengthen freedoms, necessitating deep left-wing critique.

ما بين بوش وبن لادن من ليبرالية

The Liberalism Between Bush and Bin Laden

As-Safir

Bin Laden promises Americans: no taxes in Islam—2.5% instead of 30%. The millionaire sheikh is more liberal than the most extreme Republican, and closer to Bush than either would admit.

الازمة بين السياسة والاقتصاد

The Crisis Between Politics and Economics

As-Safir

Banks grow at 8%, the economy at zero — $516 million in profits including two months of war. If pre-war Lebanon was golden, why did the war erupt?