Articles AR History Politics 2024 As-Safir

من المكبوت الفلسطيني-اللبناني نشأة المخيّمات الفلسطينية في لبنان

The Palestinian-Lebanese Taboo: The Genesis of Palestinian Camps in Lebanon

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We put them near the cities — to serve businessmen's need for cheap labor: the repressed Palestinian-Lebanese history.

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Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 2019 As-Safir

في صداقة ادوارد سعيد

On the Friendship of Edward Said

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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.

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Articles AR History Politics 2017 As-Safir

الأزرق من حزيران/ يونيو ١٩٦٧

The Blue of June 1967

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A memoir of 1967: in the cell, they hadn't realized we'd lost — and the Baalbeki dreamed of freeing his caged bird, as if Chahine had been among us.

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Book Reviews AR History 2016 As-Safir

قراءة في كتاب«جنوب اليمن في حكم اليسار- شهادة شخصية»

A Reading of the Book "South Yemen Under Leftist Rule - A Personal Testimony"

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A critical review praises the book "South Yemen Under Left Rule," which objectively analyzes the leftist governance experience in the South, free from dogmatism, highlighting its grim conflicts and national achievements.

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Debates AR Art & Literature 2015 As-Safir

مشاريع ادونيس

Adonis' Projects

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Which revolution is Adonis's reference? His eloquence covering for dictatorship now approaches stupidity.

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Debates AR Art & Literature 2015 As-Safir

مشاريع ادونيس … وادونيس ايضا مهموم بالمشاريع.

Adonis' Projects... And Adonis Too Is Preoccupied with Projects

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Adonis rejects revolutions for lacking a "project" — has any revolution in history not begun by toppling the system as the path to an alternative?

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Articles AR Art & Literature 2015 As-Safir

مشاريع ادونيس … وادونيس ايضا مهموم بالمشاريع

Adonis' Projects... And Adonis Too Is Preoccupied with Projects

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Once “the project” becomes a pretext against revolutions, despotism is absolved and people are asked to change everything except power.

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Articles AR Politics International Relations 2013 As-Safir

١٥ ايار السوري

Syria's May 15

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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.

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Articles AR Politics International Relations 2013 As-Safir

اللعب على «تغيير قواعد اللعبة»

Playing at "Changing the Rules of the Game"

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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.

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Articles AR History 2013 As-Safir

من يتذكر الاول من ايار؟

Who Remembers the First of May?

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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.

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Articles AR Politics 2013 As-Safir

من يحاسِب؟ ومن يحاسِب مَن؟

Who Holds Accountable? And Who Holds Whom Accountable?

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The issue is not merely the overthrow of the ruler, but preventing immunity, exile, and assassination from swallowing the revolutions' first achievement: the right to accountability.

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Articles AR International Relations 2013 As-Safir

مارغريت ثاتشر – الارث والجنازة 

Margaret Thatcher - The Legacy and the Funeral

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The "milk snatcher" privatized everything; Ken Loach proposed privatizing her funeral — more consistent with her legacy.

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Articles AR History Politics 2013 As-Safir

١٣ نيسان: تأملات لبنانية-سورية

April 13: Lebanese-Syrian Reflections

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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.

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Articles AR Politics 2013 As-Safir

مؤتمر الحوار الوطني اليمني: البداية المبتورة

The Yemeni National Dialogue Conference: A Truncated Beginning

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Yemen's National Dialogue Conference is a major step, but it is fundamentally truncated by the immunity granted to the former president and the marginalization of revolutionary youth and the Southern Movement.

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2013 As-Safir

مواد قابلة للاشتعال

Flammable Materials

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The confrontation over the wage ladder reveals Lebanon's true power: the financial-commercial-real estate complex that obstructs reforms and accumulates flammable social and sectarian tensions.

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Articles AR Politics Sociology 2013 As-Safir

٨ آذار ٢٠١٣ – الثورة أنثى

March 8, 2013 - The Revolution Is Female

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The revolution is feminine—every retreat from the civil state strikes women first: Saudi women on the Shura Council who can't attend without a male guardian.

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2013 As-Safir

تمرين في الترجمة

An Exercise in Translation

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How are globalization's terms like transparency and transitional justice translated in the Arab world to become a cover for plundering wealth and exempting ruling families from accountability?

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Articles AR Politics International Relations 2013 As-Safir

القاعدة في إستخدمات «القاعدة»

Al-Qaeda in the Uses of "Al-Qaeda"

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O al-Qaeda—with all your own crimes—how many crimes against peoples are committed in your name and in the name of the war against you!

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Articles AR History Politics 2013 As-Safir

الثورة اليمنية في العام الثالث

The Yemeni Revolution in Its Third Year

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The Yemeni revolution enters its third year with a faltering national dialogue and a paralyzed transition, as old regime structures maintain control and the Gulf-American initiative transforms into a counter-revolution.

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Articles AR Politics Sociology 2013 As-Safir

هل الدولة اللبنانية دولة دينية؟

Is the Lebanese State a Religious State?

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The constitution guarantees "absolute freedom of belief" — yet absolute freedom was translated into absolute subjection to sectarian law.

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Articles AR Politics 2013 As-Safir

قانون انتخاب: لماذا التصويت؟

An Electoral Law: Why Vote?

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Six leaders predetermine results — when elections resemble appointments and citizens lose their vote, what's the point of voting?

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2013 As-Safir

هي ثورة

It Is a Revolution

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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.

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Articles AR Political Economy 2013 As-Safir

ردّ على غسان عيّاش حول أرباح المصارف

A Reply to Ghassan Ayyash on Bank Profits

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Lebanon loses while its banks profit—"be sure there's no connection." Banking profitability is sacred—the sacred hides the profane.

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Articles AR Politics International Relations 2012 As-Safir

الإستغاثة بالكيماوي

Calling on Chemical Weapons

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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."

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