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Al Jadeed News
Huna Beirut
Adam Shamseddine
July 2021
Video 1h 4m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Michel Aoun Continues His Coup, and Now Is the Time for Confrontation

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2021

فواز طرابلسي : ميشال عون يواصل انقلابه والآن وقت المواجهة ومنع تحميل الأكثرية الشعبية تبعات الازمة

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Michel Aoun Continues His Coup, and Now Is the Time for Confrontation

The World Bank says thirty years of economy served the few at the expense of the many — then calls for a wealth tax, and nobody here is even saying this.

Al Jadeed News
Huna Beirut
Adam Shamseddine
July 2021
Video 11m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Conditions for War Are Not Present in Lebanon, and Hezbollah Is Not a Party to the Conflict but a Party to Security

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2021

فواز طرابلسي : أجواء الحرب غير متوفرة حالياً في لبنان و"الحزب" ليس طرفاً في النزاع ولكنه طرف بالأمن

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Conditions for War Are Not Present in Lebanon, and Hezbollah Is Not a Party to the Conflict but a Party to Security

Dive into Fawwaz Traboulsi's profound analysis of Lebanon's economic collapse, the monopolistic nature of its sectarian system, and the legacy of the October 17 uprising. Discover why he argues that despite the severe social crisis, the structural conditions for a new civil war in Lebanon are currently absent.

Jad Ghosn
Jad Ghosn Podcast
Jad Ghosn
April 2021
Video 47m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi — Extras

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Video AR Jad Ghosn 2021

Extras فواز طرابلسي

Fawwaz Traboulsi — Extras

In-depth interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Jad Ghosn YouTube channel exploring the roots of Lebanon's post-war political crises, the founding of the Communist Action Organization, and the intersections of Marxism and Arab nationalism.

Jad Ghosn
Jad Ghosn Podcast
Jad Ghosn
April 2021
Video 9m
Arabic

The End of War Does Not End Conflict, and the Myths of Nonviolence from Gandhi to Mandela

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Video AR Jad Ghosn 2021

نهاية الحرب لا تنهي الصراع وخرافات اللا عنفية من غاندي الى نيلسون مانديلا

The End of War Does Not End Conflict, and the Myths of Nonviolence from Gandhi to Mandela

Interview clip on the Jad Ghosn YouTube channel. Critically examines the distinction between the end of war and the end of conflict, dismantling the myths of non-violent resistance through the historical examples of Gandhi and Mandela.

Reflections with Jad Ghosn
Reflections with Jad Ghosn
Jad Ghosn
April 2021
Podcast 1h 36m
Arabic

The Duty of Memory and the Necessity of Forgetting — Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Podcast AR Reflections with Jad Ghosn 2021

واجب الذكرى وضرورة النسيان — فواز طرابلسي (Reflections, Ep. 2)

The Duty of Memory and the Necessity of Forgetting — Fawwaz Traboulsi

A rare autobiographical podcast interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on Reflections with Jad Ghosn, covering sixty years of political engagement, the causes of Lebanon's civil war, memory and forgetting, and the gap between uprising and structural change.

Jad Ghosn
Qanat Jad Ghosn
Jad Ghosn
April 2021
Video 1h 36m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Duty of Memory and the Necessity of Forgetting — Episode 2

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Video AR Jad Ghosn 2021

المؤرّخ والكاتب فواز طرابلسي : واجب الذكرى وضرورة النسيان - الحلقة 2

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Duty of Memory and the Necessity of Forgetting — Episode 2

Historian Fawwaz Traboulsi unpacks the social roots of the Lebanese Civil War, the rise of the post-war rentier economy, and the strategic failures of the October 17 uprising. A profound historical analysis exploring memory, political violence, and the enduring nature of hope in Lebanon.

Awan Media
Kayf Wasalna La-Hon?
Rabih Barakat
October 2020
Podcast
Arabic

How Did We Get Here? On Sectarianism with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 2

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Podcast AR Awan Media 2020

كيف وصلنا لهون؟ || عن الطائفية مع فواز طرابلسي, الجزء الثاني

How Did We Get Here? On Sectarianism with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 2

Part 2 of the Awan Media podcast with Fawwaz Traboulsi, covering the civil war, Taif Agreement, post-war oligarchy, and the October 2019 uprising — why sectarianism endures despite mass mobilization.

Awan Media
Kayf Wasalna La-Hon?
Rabih Barakat
October 2020
Podcast
Arabic

How Did We Get Here? On Sectarianism with Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Podcast AR Awan Media 2020

كيف وصلنا لهون؟ || عن الطائفية مع فواز طرابلسي

How Did We Get Here? On Sectarianism with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Part 1 of a podcast interview on Awan Media with Fawwaz Traboulsi, tracing sectarianism in Lebanon from the 19th century to the Chehab era, linking it to class, regional, and colonial structures.

AFA Lebanon
June 2020
Video 16m
Arabic

What Is Happening in Our Region? Revolution and the Horizon of Politics in Lebanon — Fawwaz Traboulsi

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Video AR AFA Lebanon 2020

فيديو تقديمي: ماذا يحدث في منطقتنا؟ الثورة وأفق السياسة في لبنان – فواز طرابلسي

What Is Happening in Our Region? Revolution and the Horizon of Politics in Lebanon — Fawwaz Traboulsi

What is happening in our region? Questions about revolution and political horizons in post-October 17 Lebanon.

Al Jadeed News
March 2020
Video 16m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Current Uprising Has Sparked Dreams of Radical Change in Lebanon

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2020

فواز طرابلسي: الانتفاضة الحالية اثارت أحلام وطموحات بتغيير جذري للنظام في لبنان

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Current Uprising Has Sparked Dreams of Radical Change in Lebanon

The middle classes are the system's base and the uprising's base — 40% of the population. Most of Hezbollah's base is middle class — not clientelism, parties with ideology and orders.

Al Jadeed News
March 2020
Video 11m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Majority of Lebanese Are Paying the Price of the Current Crisis

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2020

فواز طرابلسي: اكثرية اللبنانيين يدفعون ثمن الازمة الحالية من معيشتهم وعملهم

Fawwaz Traboulsi: The Majority of Lebanese Are Paying the Price of the Current Crisis

This is not a rentier economy — it's a market economy based on profit and private property. Rent is a small fraction — most Lebanese actually work.

Al Jadeed News
Al-Hadath
Nancy Al-Sabeh
November 2019
Video 3h 38m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Al-Hadath" (12-11-2019)

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2019

«الحدث» (12-11-2019)

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Al-Hadath" (12-11-2019)

A revolution against a thirty-year system — education is a right not a commodity, work is a right not a za'im's favor, and "you're teaching us fabrication."

July 2019
Video 11m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi at the Twiza Festival, Tangier 2019

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Video AR 2019

فواز طرابلسي بمهرجان ثويزا-طنجة 2019

Fawwaz Traboulsi at the Twiza Festival, Tangier 2019

Culture is not a luxury — it is a tool of resistance and understanding in an age of decline.

Diwan FM
Huna Tunis
Mohammad Al-Yousfi
April 2019
Podcast 40m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Huna Tunis": The Role of the Arab Intellectual Amid the Democratic Movement

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Podcast AR Diwan FM 2019

فواز الطرابلسي ضيف هنا تونس للحديث عن دور المثقف العربي في خضم الحراك الديمقراطي

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Huna Tunis": The Role of the Arab Intellectual Amid the Democratic Movement

The intellectual's function is producing knowledge — and we're abandoning it for giving opinions: regimes fear the word because they are built on it.

Diwan FM
April 2019
Podcast 2m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Marxism Has Become Excommunicating

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Podcast AR Diwan FM 2019

الاكاديمي اللبناني فواز الطرابلسي: الماركسية أصبحت تكفيرية

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Marxism Has Become Excommunicating

The worst thing in Marxism is that it became takfiri — part of our people is turning jihadist and we write theories for Westerners.

Les clés du Moyen-Orient
Les clés du Moyen-Orient
Mathilde Rouxel
December 2018
Video 5m
French

Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Writing the History of the Lebanese Civil War

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Video FR Les clés du Moyen-Orient 2018

Entretien avec Fawwaz Traboulsi - Ecrire l'histoire de la guerre civile libanaise

Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Writing the History of the Lebanese Civil War

Scholarly interview in French where historian Fawwaz Traboulsi examines the historiography of the Lebanese Civil War, challenging the official narrative of a "war of others" and advocating for a decentralized, socio-economic approach to Lebanese history.

Al Jadeed News
Al-Hadath
Nancy Al-Sabeh
December 2018
Video 1h 24m
Arabic

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Al-Hadath" with Nancy Al-Sabeh (03-12-2018)

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Video AR Al Jadeed News 2018

فواز طرابلسي في برنامج «الحدث» مع نانسي الصبح (03-12-2018)

Fawwaz Traboulsi on "Al-Hadath" with Nancy Al-Sabeh (03-12-2018)

A country importing $10 billion and exporting $1 billion — "this is no accident, people live off this system" — and whole generations pushed out because they can't buy an apartment.

iReMMO
Silk and Iron
Farouk Mardam-Bey
June 2018
Video 1h 27m
French

Silk and Iron: At the Heart of the Tumultuous Relations Between Europe and the Near East in the 19th Century

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Video FR iReMMO 2018

Soie et fer : au cœur des relations tumultueuses entre Europe et Proche-Orient au XIXe siècle

Silk and Iron: At the Heart of the Tumultuous Relations Between Europe and the Near East in the 19th Century

French-language interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on his book "Silk and Iron" exploring 19th-century Europe-Middle East relations. Covers imperial projects, the silk trade, global capitalism, and a critical analysis of the 2011 Arab uprisings.

Pa Reece
February 2018
Video 13m
English

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

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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
LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts
Fawaz Gerges
November 2017
Podcast 1h 38m
English

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

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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.

Mucem
Program Palestine
November 2017
Video 1h 34m
French

[Palestine] Translating Palestine

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Video FR Mucem 2017

[Palestine] Traduire la Palestine

[Palestine] Translating Palestine

Guernica was not the first — Churchill ordered aerial bombing of Iraqi tribes in 1920: aerial warfare against civilians started in our region.

Asir Al-Kutub
Asir Al-Kutub
August 2017
Video 52m
Arabic

Book Juice with Bilal Fadl — Episode 100

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Video AR Asir Al-Kutub 2017

عصير الكتب مع بلال فضل│الحلقة 100

Book Juice with Bilal Fadl — Episode 100

Jarallah Omar: the last of the Arab democrats — debated the Brotherhood on sharia in the constitution, and paid for his courage with assassination.

Asir Al-Kutub
Asir Al-Kutub
Bilal Fadl
August 2017
Video 34m
Arabic

Book Juice — Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 3

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Video AR Asir Al-Kutub 2017

عصير الكتب│لقاء مع الكاتب اللبناني فواز طرابلسي│الجزء الثالث

Book Juice — Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 3

Jar Allah Omar: "last of the democratic Arabs." Darwish: "his children are his poems, he reads the dictionary daily." The translator is a musical arranger — reproducing the text in another language.

Asir Al-Kutub
Asir Al-Kutub
Bilal Fadl
August 2017
Video 31m
Arabic

Book Juice — Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 2

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Video AR Asir Al-Kutub 2017

عصير الكتب | لقاء مع الكاتب اللبناني فواز طرابلسي | الجزء الثاني

Book Juice — Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi — Part 2

The left split between liberals whose democracy arrives on American tanks and resisters who cannot grasp new exploitation — between them, a generation discovering the answers are leftist.

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