In The Media

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

What Does It Mean to Be an Arab Marxist?

Podcast EN Centre Marc Bloch 2023

What Does It Mean to Be an Arab Marxist?

An English-language multi-voice interview on Radio Marc Bloch exploring what it means to be an Arab Marxist intellectual, with Fawwaz Traboulsi, Leyla Dakhli, Saphe Shamoun, and artists Bassem Saad and Joud Al-Tamimi.

August 2023

ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

The Legacy of Edward Said

Video EN Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2023

The Legacy of Edward Said

Panel discussion at AUB marking the tenth anniversary of Edward Said's passing. Distinguished academics and close friends reflect on his contributions as a secular humanist, literary critic, and a fearless voice for the exiled.

Translating Politics into Art and Literature in the Arab World

Video EN ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry 2023

Translating Politics into Art and Literature in the Arab World

A recorded discussion at ICI Berlin with Fawwaz Traboulsi on translating politics into art and literature in the Arab world — from Guernica-Beirut to Fayrouz and the Rahbanis, with Leyla Dakhli and Jens Hanssen.

Pa Reece

February 2018

LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts

Mandatory Palestine: 1936 revolt against British colonialism and 1948 annexation by King of Jordan

Video EN Pa Reece 2018

Mandatory Palestine: 1936 revolt against British colonialism and 1948 annexation by King of Jordan

The 1936-39 revolt: a year-long strike and three years of guerrilla war — forcing Britain to reconquer Palestine with 30,000 soldiers.

LSE Middle East Centre

Fawaz Gerges

November 2017

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)

In the Eye of the Storm: The History of Lebanon Revisited

Podcast EN LSE Middle East Centre 2017

In the Eye of the Storm: The History of Lebanon Revisited

Why would 120,000 Lebanese kill each other to serve others? — memory doesn't produce history: collecting violence material is not enough without causes and questions.

A Journey of Ideas Across — In Dialog with Edward Said

November 2013

American University of Beirut

On Said's Late Style — (HKW Berlin, A Journey of Ideas Across)

Video EN Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) 2013

On Said's Late Style — (HKW Berlin, A Journey of Ideas Across)

A lecture at HKW Berlin where Fawwaz Traboulsi examines Edward Said's concept of late style, drawing on his experience as Said's Arabic translator. Part of 'A Journey of Ideas Across.'

Inaugural panel, Issam Fares Institute, AUB

Rami Khouri

January 2012

Understanding the Arab...Spring? Uprising? Revolution? Awakening? Citizen revolt?

Video EN American University of Beirut 2012

Understanding the Arab...Spring? Uprising? Revolution? Awakening? Citizen revolt?

We are ruled by Ali Baba — and they haven't even reached forty: six Saudi princes collecting one million barrels daily, with Obama and Sarkozy's full knowledge.

July 2010

A Defining Moment of the 2006 War in Lebanon

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

A Defining Moment of the 2006 War in Lebanon

The real existential threat to Israel — from Israelis themselves sabotaging peace: and Nasrallah admitted — had I known, we wouldn't have decided.

July 2010

Why Did Israel Attack Lebanon in 2006?

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Why Did Israel Attack Lebanon in 2006?

The military command proposed four days — Olmert wanted a full war: not a single stated objective achieved, infantry defeat despite air superiority.

June 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 10

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 10

Hezbollah: "the last armed sect to join the Lebanese system" — its rise poses for the first time a Sunni-Shia competition over executive power.

June 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 9

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 9

Israel chose to withdraw from Lebanon rather than lose both Lebanon and the Golan — and after 2000, Shebaa Farms and hundreds of prisoners remained.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 8

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 8

Lebanon exports humans and imports everything — and the tax system transfers $20 million from the poorest to the richest.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 7

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 7

12 ports in Beirut — each militia controlling smuggling, drugs, and protection taxes: then brother killing brother — Aoun vs Geagea, Hezbollah vs Amal.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 6

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 6

The resistance began secular — Christians, Muslims, and Jews, men and women — and forced Israel out of Beirut within two weeks.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 5

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 5

Sabra and Shatila: the Kataeb were transported via Beirut airport by Israeli forces — a thousand civilians with American-British-Italian complicity.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 4

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 4

The war was not inevitable — it was the product of three causes: Kissinger convinced Assad to intervene, then considered it his greatest trick on the Soviets.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 3

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 3

The army lost its real role in national defense — becoming more and more an army of law and order: repressing workers and farmers while Israel bombed villages.

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 2

Video EN The Real News Network 2010

Hezbollah and the Modern History of Lebanon — Part 2

Ten years of social movements — not a single demand met: sectarian institutions so rigid that nobody found a way in.

April 2010