التفكير الاجتماعي في أزمنة التحولات الكبرى

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

SifR

What is needed are forces that translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

في وداع زياد الرحباني

Farewell to Ziad Rahbani

Ziad created the lingua franca of post-war Lebanon — through it a generation found each other across front lines and carried their innocence to October 17.

في صداقة الياس خوري

On the Friendship of Elias Khoury

I have not yet said goodbye to Elias Khoury — for him, culture was a moral act and friendship its highest commitment.

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

The left must translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

من المكبوت الفلسطيني-اللبناني نشأة المخيّمات الفلسطينية في لبنان

The Palestinian-Lebanese Taboo: The Genesis of Palestinian Camps in Lebanon

As-Safir

We put them near the cities — to serve businessmen's need for cheap labor: the repressed Palestinian-Lebanese history.

فواز طرابلسي: «زمن اليسار الجديد» سؤال النشأة وسياق التحولات

Fawwaz Traboulsi: "The Time of the New Left" - The Question of Origins and the Context of Transformations

Either the left becomes the party of answers to neoliberalism and social justice — or religious and right-wing extremism takes its place.

غزة – فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي

Gaza - Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

From the 1982 Beirut siege to Gaza today, the AI-powered brutality of the occupation is revealed against the backdrop of popular resistance, Arab regime complicity, and an unprecedented surge of global solidarity.

عن الطوائف والطبقات والحروب الاهلية

On Sects, Classes, and Civil Wars

The weakest expression of societal and power relations is the political one — manufacturing experience demands tools beyond politics.

لينين والكومنترن والصهيونية – المؤتمر الثاني للكومنترن آب/اوغسطس ١٩٢٠

Lenin, the Comintern, and Zionism - The Second Congress of the Comintern, August 1920

Comintern 1920: the Zionist project as a prime example of colonial deception — subjecting Arabs to British exploitation "under the pretext of a Jewish state."

لينين والكومنترن والصهيونية

Lenin, the Comintern, and Zionism

The Comintern in 1920: "Under pretext of a Jewish state, Arab workers are subjected to British exploitation" — Britain expelled Arabs then turned them against settlers to monopolize control.

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut 1982

During the 1982 siege, Darwish read: "In the name of the fedayeen who created / from a boot, a horizon" — then locked himself in to write "Memory for Forgetfulness": "We only saw our image on Lebanon's polished stone."

محمود درويش: ذكاء القلب

Mahmoud Darwish: The Intelligence of the Heart

Jadaliyya

What is death? Its color is white. Watch your heart — for others it's ordinary, for you it's a means of production. Death is the only crime for which there is no punishment.

هبّة فلسطين المستقبل ومستقبل الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي

The Palestine Uprising: The Future and the Future of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Bidayat

The recent Palestinian uprising and Israel's 'peace of hegemony' compel Arab and Palestinian forces to reconnect the liberation struggle with national sovereignty and move beyond military reductionism in the face of new regional alliances.

رؤوف مسعد عن حصار بيروت

Raouf Massad on the Siege of Beirut

Writer Raouf Massad recalls his memories of the 1982 siege of Beirut, bringing to mind Naji al-Ali, Saadallah Wannous, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and others who shared the experience of resistance and steadfastness.

في صداقة إدوارد سعيد | القدس العربي

On the Friendship of Edward Said | Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

It began in Dhofar and did not end with “late style”: a friendship that opened onto talent, grace, and commitment.

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.'

في صداقة ادوارد سعيد

On the Friendship of Edward Said

As-Safir

Edward Said's friendship, which began with a political invitation and a hidden intervention to lift a travel ban, spanned decades of intellectual and political struggle, and transcended controversy to reveal the depth of their bond.

فوّاز طرابلسي: حضور سايكس ـ بيكو فاعل في الثقافة السياسية العربية

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Sykes-Picot Remains Active in Arab Political Culture

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Sykes-Picot became predetermined fate whitewashing rulers—but current borders don't even match its map.

الأزرق من حزيران/ يونيو ١٩٦٧

The Blue of June 1967

As-Safir

A memoir of 1967: in the cell, they hadn't realized we'd lost — and the Baalbeki dreamed of freeing his caged bird, as if Chahine had been among us.

١٩٦٧، ١٩٨٢، ٢٠١٧ الآلة الجهنمية: من الحروب الوطنية الى الحروب الاهلية

1967, 1982, 2017 - The Infernal Machine: From National Wars to Civil Wars

Bidayat

The infernal machine: armies built to fight the enemy shattered against their own peoples — and between 1967 and 2017, we know Guantanamo better than Sednaya.

مدرسة الكذب الصهيونية

The Zionist School of Lies

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Netanyahu's lie about the Holocaust is merely a link in the Zionist school of fabrication, which reinvents narratives to justify colonization and distort Palestinian resistance.

وعد بلفور: نظرة جديدة مقالتي اليوم في القدس العربي

The Balfour Declaration: A New Look - My Article Today in Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was less about serving Zionism than it was a British pretext to seize the mandate over Palestine under the guise of minority protection, thereby denying the majority of its inhabitants their political rights.

وعد بلفور – نظرة جديدة

The Balfour Declaration - A New Look

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was not merely a commitment to a national home, but a colonial tool to secure the British Mandate over Palestine and deny the Arab majority its political rights by defining them as "non-Jewish communities".

فن رندا مداح – او التعلّق بحبال الهوا

The Art of Randa Maddah - Or Hanging from the Ropes of the Wind

A woman suspended like her homeland the Golan — she responds to live bullets with photography by live bullets, and a people in their savage freedom "hanging by threads of air."