Talks & Panels AR Political Economy Politics International Relations Sociology 2026 SifR

التفكير الاجتماعي في أزمنة التحولات الكبرى

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

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What is needed are forces that translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

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Debates AR Political Economy 2023 SifR

استئناف نقاش مع فكر مهدي عامل – ٢

Resuming a Discussion with the Thought of Mahdi Amil - Part 2

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Can theory invent history? And is Marxist-Leninist thought truly absent from Arab thinking? A critical discussion with Mahdi Amil.

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Debates AR Political Economy Politics 2023 SifR

استئناف حوار مع فكر مهدي عامل -١

Resuming a Dialogue with the Thought of Mahdi Amil - Part 1

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Mahdi Amil was distinguished by his theoretical independence from Soviet orthodoxy and the Communist Party, yet he remained rigorously committed to justifying its policies, creating a tension between his thought and his theoretical and political practice.

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2023 SifR

عكس السير – القراءة السياسية للاقتصاد. سلطة المال وسلطة السياسة

Against the Current - A Political Reading of the Economy: The Power of Money and the Power of Politics

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Reverse direction: the political reading of economics — the ruling class uses power to build its interests, and the state is a tool of accumulation, not development.

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Interviews AR Political Economy Politics 2023 SifR

المقابلة – فوّاز طرابلسي: توجد دولة ولكن لا توجد معارضة 

The Interview - Fawwaz Traboulsi: There Is a State but There Is No Opposition

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The interview challenges dominant narratives of the Lebanese crisis, asserting that the state exists and serves an oligarchy, and that the real problem lies in the absence of an organized opposition.

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Articles AR Political Economy History Politics 2022 SifR

المبادئ الاقتصادية والاجتماعية في الدستور اللبناني

The Economic and Social Principles in the Lebanese Constitution

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The Lebanese constitution was neoliberal before the word existed — we beat Pinochet by decades.

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2022 SifR

الاقتصاد السياسي: اين الاقتصاد؟ وأين السياسة؟

Political Economy: Where Is the Economy? And Where Is the Politics?

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Where is economics in Arab politics? Absent behind "resistance." Where is politics in economics? Confiscated by the World Bank. Neoliberalism severs the link to control both.

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