“The Architecture of Empire”: Writing as Resistance to Fascism

Roy and Traboulsi dissect how neoliberalism and religious nationalism reinforce each other — from India's caste architecture to Lebanon's captured resistance — and ask what writing can do when the state controls the story.

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.

ظفار: شهادة من زمن الثورة – مقدمة الطبعة الثانية

Dhofar: Testimony from the Time of Revolution - Second Edition Preface

In the preface to the second edition of "Dhofar," the author returns to the region decades later, witnessing its transformations and meeting former comrades who assert their revolution prompted official attention, hoping to keep its memory alive.

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."

L’art de Randa Mdah – Ou l’art suspendu aux cordes du vent

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

Randa Mdah draws with real bullets to say that real bullets kill—and the Golan hangs between foreign occupation and familiar tyranny, "suspended on the ropes of the wind."

نيرودا بول روبصن

Neruda - Paul Robeson

A translation of Neruda on Paul Robeson: his voice separated from silence as light from darkness—singing for all peoples, triumphant over the silence of rivers that lost their voice from carrying too much blood.

دليل ثوار وثوريين العرب

A Guide to Arab Revolutionaries and Rebels

This is not a museum of revolutionaries but a guide to what revolutions teach: independence is not enough, and defeat itself changes the victor.

السحابة بظهرها المحني

The Cloud with Its Hunched Back

The jailer is one, and poetry's remaining task is to turn cloud, wheat, and despair into a language of resistance.

interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian revolution

An interview (2013): "Syrian revolutionaries owe nobody an apology"—militarization was forced by the regime, and the US seeks to salvage regimes through a military-Islamist assemblage. The opposition must crystallize its vision now.

30 على انطلاقة «جمول»: شهادة عن فترة التأسيس

30 Years Since the Launch of the LNRF: Testimony on the Founding Period

Bidayat

Don't shoot us, we're withdrawing — the Israeli army left Beirut after JAMOUL operations reached one every five hours.

سيدة الصخور الظفارية

Our Lady of the Dhofari Rocks

As-Safir

From Dhofar, what remains is not the slogan but the image: an unnamed woman on the rocks becoming an icon of revolution, poverty, and veiled hope.

حوار موسّع مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة السورية

Extended Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian Revolution

Jadaliyya

Airpower signals the bankruptcy of resolution—"you can destroy but won't control people without the ground."

Our Lady of the Rocks

A literary text on Dhofar: a Freudian slip of the camera turned a shepherdess into a madonna — the tubercular woman asks for medicine from strangers who carry everything except what helps, and the unknown name endures across wars and exiles.

Hezbollah’s New Political Platform

As-Safir

Translation: Hezbollah abandoned the Islamic state and Wilayat al-Faqih—but its new platform accepts full partnership in the confessional system and its economic conditions. "Order is from faith"—or from serving bankers?

Un constructeur d’espoirs – Comment s’explique le retour du Che?

A Builder of Hopes - How to Explain the Return of Che?

Why does Che Guevara return to be revered anew? Because he represents an antithesis to neoliberal materialism and individualism, and a symbol of moral commitment, solidarity, and the building of hopes.

خاف الطغاة فقتلوه

The Tyrants Feared Him, So They Killed Him

Tyrants feared him and killed him — because he said with brazen simplicity that democracy is the road to Palestine. A free man whose prisons can no longer hold everyone.

شهادة عن فترة تأسيس «جبهة المقاومة الوطنية اللبنانية»

Testimony on the Founding Period of the Lebanese National Resistance Front

As-Safir

A direct testimony about the clandestine founding of the Lebanese National Resistance Front (Jammoul) in the final days of the 1982 Siege of Beirut, and its role in accelerating the Israeli occupation's withdrawal.

Guide des révolutionnaires et des rebelles arabes

A Guide to Arab Revolutionaries and Rebels

A guide, not a museum: portraits of Arab revolutionaries from Ben Barka to Mahmoud Mohamed Taha—and the lesson that defeated revolutions change the victor and failed ones accomplish more than revolutionaries imagine.

محمد بلعيدي: شهيد عربي دفاعاً عن الجمهورية الاسبانية

Muhammad Belaidi: An Arab Martyr in Defense of the Spanish Republic

When I heard Arabs fought for Franco, I said: I must do something — what will they say about Arabs? A Spanish woman raised her fist over the Arab's coffin.

Ahmad uz-Za’tar – A poem by Mahmoud Darwish

Translation: "Let the siege be—my body is the fortress—for I am besieging you"—Darwish's Ahmad uz-Za'tar, translated by Traboulsi.

بيروت ٢٨ – نون والقلم

Beirut 28 - Nun wal-Qalam

A translation of Etel Adnan's poem on the siege of Beirut 1982: "Name your children Deir Yassin and Sabra and Shatila so we do not forget"—and poets are called to change the world or stay home.