Articles AR Political Economy History Politics International Relations 1989 زوايا

مائة يوم هزت أوروبا الشرقية: الإرادوية ــ المرض الصبياني للاشتراكية

One Hundred Days That Shook Eastern Europe: Voluntarism — Socialism's Infantile Disorder

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A hundred days toppled Eastern Europe's regimes. The real question isn't how they fell — it's how we stayed silent so long.

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Articles AR Art & Literature Politics International Relations 1989 زوايا

قضية سلمان رشدي: اللعبة الشيطانية

The Salman Rushdie Affair: A Satanic Game

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Khomeini's fatwa is politics before faith. The West inflates Rushdie's blood to forget Palestinian blood.

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Articles AR Political Economy Politics International Relations 1989 زوايا

البيرسترويكا عربياً: مقدمات

Perestroika in Arabic: Preliminaries

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Perestroika is not a renewed revolution, nor a bankruptcy — it is the attempted exit from Stalinist voluntarism.

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Articles AR History Sociology 1989 زوايا

١٤ تموز: الثورة عيد

14 July: The Revolution as Festival

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The Bastille fell to the armed people, not to the legislators. That is why the people's day is the Revolution's day.

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Articles AR History Politics 1989 زوايا

١٤ تموز: الديمقراطية ثورة

14 July: Democracy as Revolution

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Democracy was taken, not given — wrested from the bourgeoisie, not bestowed by it.

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