Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq: In quest of another modernity

Cambridge University Press

Al-Shidyaq, bearer of "the possible modernity": Work, not Education, as the motor of renaissance; the repression of female instinct as the basis of male domination—and peasant revolts, not the European "spark," as his context.

جوناثن سويفت – اقتراح متواضع

Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal

Translation: Swift proposes selling Ireland's poor children as food for the rich — the most famous dark satire in literature, and the sharpest critique of colonialism.

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When Poverty Goes Hungry...

As-Safir

A child dies of hunger every five seconds—the FAO decides to "eliminate" it without funds or deadlines. "Poverty, when it hungers, devours the king"—what when the poor man is the hungry?

اللبنانيون راضون

The Lebanese Are Satisfied

As-Safir

Carlos Ghosn advises Lebanon: "only do what is easy." The neighbor on her balcony says "God damn this country"—perhaps reminding us the country is us.