كارل ماركس – مقالات عن سورية ولبنان، ١٨٦٠

Karl Marx - Articles on Syria and Lebanon, 1860

Bidayat

In his articles on the 1860 events in Syria and Lebanon, Marx exposes French and Russian imperial ambitions behind the pretext of protecting Christians, and reveals the "Arab Kingdom" project.

هذا العدد

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.

يوسف عبدلكي والتفاصيل المشاغِبة    

Youssef Abdelke and the Rebellious Details

An engraving looks like passion until the details reveal rape — the title: "The Director General." His grotesques try to match the super-grotesqueness of our "reality."

مقالات عن سورية ولبنان، ١٨٦٠

Articles on Syria and Lebanon, 1860

Bidayat

Translation: Marx in 1860 reveals great-power horse-trading over Syria's corpse — but neglects the internal causes: the collapse of the muqata'ji system and peasant uprisings.

Interview L’Orient Le Jour – “Fratricide et guerre civile”

L'Orient Le Jour Interview - "Fratricide and Civil War"

L'Orient Le Jour

An interview about The Blood of the Two Brothers: in civil war, the executioner hides in the victim's body—what is needed is not remembering the horrors but remembering the causes.

القتل من السماء تاريخ موجز للطيران الحربي ضد المدنيّين

Killing from the Sky: A Brief History of Military Aviation Against Civilians

Bidayat

Churchill proposed mustard gas on Iraqis as "more humane" — killing from the sky began against the colonized before Guernica. Daraa's people answered barrel bombs by drilling for water.

مئوية سايكس بيكو – نقاط على حروف الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary - Dots on the Letters of Maps and History

Bidayat

The article deconstructs the mythologization of Sykes-Picot, showing it as a prolonged colonial process linked to the Balfour Declaration for seizing Palestine, and reshaping the region based on major powers' interests while denying the majority self-determination.

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."

الحرب الكونية ضد الارهاب – اعلى مراحل الاستعمار

The Global War on Terror - The Highest Stage of Colonialism

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Lenin inverted: "The War on Terror — the highest stage of colonialism." Instead of drying terrorism's sources, the sources are destroyed and their people displaced.

حفريات السماء – حفريات الارض

Excavations of the Sky - Excavations of the Earth

What began with a plane landing in Damascus ended in barrel bombs above and wells dug below: modernity from the sky, resistance from the ground.

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."

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.

تحقيق عن تحقيق – في مجزرة موصوفة 

An Investigation into an Investigation - On a Documented Massacre

Bidayat

In Ghouta, the weapon was criminalized and its user excused: an international justice that seizes the tool and lets the crime walk.

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.

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.

اللعب على «تغيير قواعد اللعبة»

Playing at "Changing the Rules of the Game"

As-Safir

Israel bombs Damascus as "self-defense" while occupying the Golan—the Syrian people bury their dead while great powers decide their fate in their name.

من يتذكر الاول من ايار؟

Who Remembers the First of May?

As-Safir

Despite political crises, May Day reminds us that the Arab revolutions were founded on workers' issues and rights, and that freedom cannot stand without bread and true democracy.

١٣ نيسان: تأملات لبنانية-سورية

April 13: Lebanese-Syrian Reflections

As-Safir

From the anniversary of April 13, Lebanon and Syria parallel each other in the transformation of popular movements into civil wars, with the Syrian regime bearing primary responsibility for declaring war on its people.

مقابلة شاملة مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة والحرب في سورية

A Comprehensive Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on Revolution and War in Syria

Bidayat

The Syrian revolution, an expression of a deep crisis, was pushed into civil war by regime violence, yet it remains a revolution with class and sectarian dimensions requiring a clear vision from the Left and opposition.

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.

هي ثورة

It Is a Revolution

As-Safir

These are revolutions, not a 'spring' or uprisings: they erupt when rulers can no longer govern and the ruled can no longer tolerate them, imposing systemic change, not just reform, through popular power.

الإستغاثة بالكيماوي

Calling on Chemical Weapons

As-Safir

The chemical weapons threat is not intimidation but a cry of bankruptcy — a regime blackmailing the world while every other method of killing passes as "legitimate."

خطاب الاسد: الحرب مستمرة

Assad's Speech: The War Goes On

As-Safir

No orders to fire for eleven months across 400 sites — he warns of a "monopolist class" exploiting "current" events. No comment.

سوريا العيد بلا هدنة

Syria: A Holiday Without a Truce

As-Safir

Lavrov anointed Assad "protector of minorities" — the worst orientalist frameworks recycled from Moscow. What is Putin's price before "selling" the Levant's minorities?