الانقلاب على الثورات

The Coup Against the Revolutions

Bidayat

The coup against the revolutions: removing heads to save systems — only organization defeats organization, only parties defeat parties.

AHDR: a critique

300 books translated per year is an unreliable figure—and culture is used to mask neoliberal agendas: unemployment cannot be solved by translation but by productive economies. The Alexandria Charter is a shopping list, not a roadmap.

مقابلة لجريدة «السفير» – المشروع الثقافي لرفيق الحريري

Al-Safir Interview - Rafik Hariri's Cultural Project

As-Safir

Hariri's reconstruction project for Lebanon gambled on a peace that never came, plunging the country into debt and reproducing the flaws of the pre-war economic system at the expense of most Lebanese.

مقابلة لجريدة السفير

Al-Safir Newspaper Interview

As-Safir

Hariri's project rebuilds the pre-war system with all its flaws amplified — a dangerous disregard for its role in igniting the war threatens to rebuild the conditions for explosion.

The Lebanese System Revisited

The Lebanese system was "globalized before globalization"—it was not coexistence that produced prosperity but economic expansion, and when it was unevenly distributed, war followed. The alternative: "Security by providing bread for everybody."

الشرعيات الخارجية على حساب الشرعية الشعبية

External Legitimacies at the Expense of Popular Legitimacy

The Islamist scarecrow justified decades of dictatorship — the uprisings proved jihadism is the exception, and "development reports" explained water with water.

هل يكون “الكازينو الدولي” بديلاً من العدالة الاجتماعية؟

Could the "International Casino" Replace Social Justice?

Bidayat

Can the "global casino" replace social justice? This piece critiques Friedrich von Hayek's neoliberal ideas and calls on the Arab left to reclaim the concepts of justice and equal opportunity it abandoned.

Feminizing Politics

Al-Raida

Feminizing politics is not numerical representation but freeing politics from the patriarchy that produces authoritarianism—and the intellectual construction of Arab feminism remains an unfinished project.

Des bons et mauvais usages du modèle suisse

On the Good and Bad Uses of the Swiss Model

Switzerland of the Orient is a French colonial invention selectively applied—banking without industry, neutrality without an army, federalism only to justify cantons—revealing ideological distortions, not resemblances.