أوكرانيا على مذبح المعسكريَن أوقفوا هذه الحرب!

Ukraine on the Altar of the Two Camps: Stop This War!

Bidayat

The Cold War ended by dissolving one alliance and enlarging the other, but Russian aggression remains aggression — and Ukrainians are paying the price. Stop this war.

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.

ميكلوس يانكشو فتنة الثورة واقتتال الإخوة

Miklós Jancsó: The Temptation of Revolution and Fratricidal Strife

Bidayat

Jancsó: where oppression reigns, open space becomes a prison without bars — commissioned for the revolution's anniversary, he made an anti-war film.

أزمة الانفجار وانفجار الازمات اللبنانية

The Explosion Crisis and the Explosion of Lebanese Crises

Bidayat

The Beirut explosion, a "crime of negligence," laid bare a system of corruption and unaccountability, whose repercussions are now escalating into political, economic, and sovereign crises.

حروب الردّة

Wars of Counter-Revolution

Bidayat

Jihadi-Takfirism isn't born of "revolutionary chaos" but of regime repression — it builds nothing, carries no cause, and punishes society for its otherness.

العنف في الحروب الاهلية: القنّاص والمنتقم

Violence in Civil Wars: The Sniper and the Avenger

Bidayat

In civil wars, the language of war singularizes the enemy to justify collective punishment, turning the sniper and avenger into instruments of absurd violence that fragments society and makes the enemy latent within each individual.

العنف في الحروب الأهلية: القبيلة والمقدّس والمعجزة

Violence in Civil Wars: The Tribe, the Sacred, and the Miraculous

Bidayat

In civil wars, sects transform into monsters that draw justifications for violence from tribalism and the sacred, redefining the "stranger," beatifying leaders, and manufacturing miracles to purify the "sanctuary."

Yemen Elections

On the eve of unified Yemen's first elections: will the regime combine the best of both experiences or return to one-man rule? Education reform faces demands to restore Sharia as the sole source of legislation.

The Woes of Confessionalism

As-Safir

Translation of two columns from as-Safir: Yousif Bey Karam said it in 1867—sectarian division invites external domination. The question: "Do we change the system or the people?"

Lebanon on the Brink

As-Safir

Translation from as-Safir after Gemayel's assassination: sectarian division invites external domination since 1867—and when the Lebanese unite, they do so despite the confessional system and against it.