من سويسرا الشرق إلى هانوي العرب تاريخ مختصر لصورة بيروت

From the Switzerland of the East to the Hanoi of the Arabs: A Brief History of Beirut's Image

Bidayat

Beirut, port for assembling cities — from "Switzerland of the East" to "Hanoi of the Arabs": every image has its political and class context.

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."

A Response to Manfred Sing

A “non-repentant Marxist” responds to an academic who read three pages of his book and declared him a liberal convert — do you suggest skipping democracy for the dictatorship of the proletariat?

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq: An Arab Traveler in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Beyond

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, the rebellious Nahda thinker, bridged the gap between East and West, advocating for freedom, equality, and women's liberation, facing censorship and marginalization.

Does Guilt Matter?

Does guilt matter in politics? The paper interrogates the suppression of collective guilt in post-war Lebanon, calling for the restoration of the memory of causes, not just violence, as a condition for conscious forgetting that enables coexistence.

إدوارد سعيد في تطوره الفكري

Edward Said in His Intellectual Development

Al-Akhbar

Edward Said's *Orientalism* and his thought were appropriated and reduced by three currents; this reading reconnects it to his intellectual evolution towards democratic secular humanism, highlighting his role as a critical translator.

ماذا ينفع الشعور بالذنب؟

What Good Is Guilt?

The "culture of humiliation" is surprised by revolutions — and Israel's "David" had double the combined Arab armies in '48. In civil wars: a duty to remember and a necessity to forget.

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.

Senile Orientalism

Allah will know his own: Lewis attributed a Catholic Crusader phrase to Islam—and his real argument is that Iran has no right to what Israel already possesses in nuclear warheads.

Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach

The text calls for a critical approach to the concept of the 'public sphere' in the Middle East, emphasizing that democracy requires popular power beyond theoretical debate to confront authoritarianism and the challenges of colonial history.

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.