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 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.

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.

Incurable Hope

Extracts from the siege diary: an Israeli officer says "Palestinians are an epidemic"—asked about the resemblance to Hitler, he answers: "Yes." And "boutiques equal the number of martyrs."

١٥ ايار السوري

Syria's May 15

As-Safir

The Syrian regime responded to Israeli airstrikes with declarations about opening the Golan and its resistance, and by conflating the external enemy with the internal one to justify continuing the civil war.

من الوثائق الرسمية الاميركية التدخل العسكري السوري في لبنان، ١٩٧٦

From Official American Documents: Syria's Military Intervention in Lebanon, 1976

Bidayat

Kissinger claimed Washington "was not consulted" about Syria's intervention — the official documents narrate the coordination in detail.

موارد اليأس الذي لا يُهزم

Resources of an Invincible Despair

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Jerusalem's knives are knives of despair — youth resisting not for victory but against surrender. "No force can defeat this despair — and that is the hope."

كمال جنبلاط

Kamal Jumblatt

As-Safir

The mystery of the final hours before Kamal Jumblatt's assassination opens onto a life teeming with contradictions, yet unified in a project to transcend the sectarian system towards a secular Lebanon.

ذلك الاسبوع من أيلول

That Week of September

As-Safir

Sabra-Shatila: the practical application of "rejecting resettlement"—displacement through massacre. Now leaders trade "resettlement" as a cipher, unable even to form a cabinet.

لكي لا تُهزم غزة – دور للجماهير العربية

So That Gaza Is Not Defeated - A Role for the Arab Masses

As-Safir

Amidst the aggression on Gaza, Arab masses are urged to move beyond the paralysis and complicity of regimes, pressuring them to halt normalization and suspend agreements so that the resistance is not defeated.

Lebanon in the Middle East Peace Talks: Player or Bargaining Card?

The Oxford International Review

Lebanon between the Syrian-Israeli "condominium": player in the peace talks or bargaining card? Ghazi Kanaan: "Let the Lebanese trade and leave politics to the Syrians."