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This Issue

Bidayat

This issue delves into neoliberalism and consumer society, revealing how they reshape cities, transport, and social relations, leading to segregation, privatization, and new forms of wealth display.

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.

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.

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.

Mamdouha Bobst Center for Peace and Justice – Princeton lecture

A Princeton lecture: neoliberalism banned "social justice" for a quarter century—and the Arab revolutions diagnosed the problem: unemployment, despotism, class inequality. No military solution to ISIS, only drying up its social sources.

قصة حوار لم يتم

The Story of a Dialogue That Never Was

Bidayat

He chose his "inveterate friend" as interviewer, then reclaimed the answers before they were copied. Only the questions remain from a dialogue that never happened.

إدوارد سعيد في «الأسلوب المتأخر» الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style": Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

Lateness is not maturity but "intransigence and unresolved contradiction" — Said concludes with the method of impudence, and with Genet declares imperialism the exportation of identities.

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت صيف ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut, Summer 1982

Days with Darwish in the siege — he read us "Read in the name of the fedayee who created from a boot a horizon." I am a poet, not a fighter.

بيني وبينك الياسمين – الى عاصم الجندي

Between You and Me, the Jasmine - To Assem al-Jundi

A dedication to Asim al-Jundi, the friend reborn after a bullet from the 'Arab silencer,' who held fast to his grand dreams, and between them, jasmine remains a symbol of their enduring bond.

عبد الرحمن منيف يؤسِّس لأدب الصداقة – والباهي محمد يحلم بالطُوفان

Abdel Rahman Munif Founds a Literature of Friendship - And al-Bahi Muhammad Dreams of the Deluge

As-Safir

The friend alone is chosen — not the comrade, not the brother. Al-Bahi dreamed of a flood: a new Noah filling the earth with justice. Where are you, great Flood?

Giordano Bruno is a bronze tree

Giordano Bruno was burned on wood and sculpted from wood—he is not the one standing upside down, our world is.

Mai Masri 3000 nights

An introduction to Mai Masri's film: her films are about women and children not as victims but as resisters—and a child born in prison asks: "What is a bird?"

مناسبة لقائنا معا هذه الليلة لا تحتاج الى كلمات

The Occasion of Our Meeting Tonight Needs No Words

Omar Amiralay saw the dam cracking and the people saying: I am the river — how painful that he is not among us to share the Flood.

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.

محيي الدين اللبّاد وثقافة العين

Mohieddin al-Labbad and the Culture of the Eye

A lifetime project to revive Arab eye culture: the book as hospitality — three-quarters for the writer, one-quarter blank for the reader. Before al-Jahiz's duck: "This is not a duck!"

عشر سنوات على غياب ايميه سيزير١٩١٣-٢٠٠٨، عودة الى الوطن الأم

Ten Years Since the Passing of Aime Cesaire (1913-2008): Return to the Motherland

Al-Hurriya Magazine

On the anniversary of Aimé Césaire's passing, the Martiniquais poet and politician evokes his return to the "Native Land," declaring his commitment to be the mouth of sufferings and the lover of his unique people.

جوزيف سماحة: التوأم!

Joseph Samaha: The Twin!

As-Safir

They call him "Fawwaz" and call me "Joseph" — a twinship. He wrote editorials like dancing dabke: you never know where the blow will land. Who allowed you to take half of me and leave?

عيسى المعلوف

Issa al-Maalouf

From his grandfather's library, which taught him that a book is a treasure, the historian sheds light on Issa Iskandar al-Maalouf, who broke historical traditions, wrote the history of common people and modest families, and established a comprehensive approach to Lebanese history.

في القلب، يا بو انيس!

In the Heart, O Abu Anis!

George Hawi the builder — revolution is like the mole, it burrows then returns. His killer couldn't bear his independence.

في الذكرى الاولى للرفيق جورج حاوي 

On the First Anniversary of Comrade George Hawi

Al-Akhbar

Whoever killed Hawi was exhausted by his defining trait: independence. The left needs rebuilding — Hawi the inventor, the risk-taker, no change without risk.

ادوارد سعيد في «الاسلوب المتأخر» – الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style" - Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

"Intellectual impudence" is the method in Edward Said's "On Late Style," where creators reject conformity, embrace contradiction, and remain "out of place" and against the current until the very end.

كلمة فواز طرابلسي في تشييع الفقيد سليمان تقي الدين

Fawwaz Traboulsi's Eulogy at the Funeral of Suleiman Taqi al-Din

Al-Akhbar

He never stopped fighting in life or in death — his elegance inhabited a body made of dreams and the metal of will.

Lebanese Wars: Memory and Forgetfulness

Forgetting is "the life force of memory"—and what Lebanon practiced is programmed amnesia. What is needed is remembering causes—and we need daydreams (hope) as much as memory.