في وداع زياد الرحباني

Farewell to Ziad Rahbani

Ziad created the lingua franca of post-war Lebanon — through it a generation found each other across front lines and carried their innocence to October 17.

في صداقة الياس خوري

On the Friendship of Elias Khoury

I have not yet said goodbye to Elias Khoury — for him, culture was a moral act and friendship its highest commitment.

مجموعة «لبنان الاشتراكي» السنوات الأولى ١٩٦٥-١٩٦٨

The "Socialist Lebanon" Group: The Early Years 1965-1968

Bidayat

From the heart of the "Lebanon Socialist" experience and its self-critique, a contemporary question emerges: Can social justice, by ensuring equal opportunities and fair resource distribution, socio-economically hollow out sectarianism and curb sectarian grievances?

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut 1982

During the 1982 siege, Darwish read: "In the name of the fedayeen who created / from a boot, a horizon" — then locked himself in to write "Memory for Forgetfulness": "We only saw our image on Lebanon's polished stone."

الحوار الأخير مع اتيل عدنان

The Last Dialogue with Etel Adnan

He visited her in Paris. She cut through greetings: "Record what I'll say" — three last discoveries, then "I wanted poetry to be free." It was the testament.

محمود درويش: ذكاء القلب

Mahmoud Darwish: The Intelligence of the Heart

Jadaliyya

What is death? Its color is white. Watch your heart — for others it's ordinary, for you it's a means of production. Death is the only crime for which there is no punishment.

من يوميّات الحراك الشعبي

From the Diaries of the Popular Movement

Bidayat

The October 17 uprising erupted as popular anger against a corrupt ruling class, but it is threatened with co-optation or suppression unless it organizes itself and adopts clear demands to confront austerity plans and overcome sectarianism.

في صداقة إدوارد سعيد | القدس العربي

On the Friendship of Edward Said | Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

It began in Dhofar and did not end with “late style”: a friendship that opened onto talent, grace, and commitment.

مذكرات جورج بطل ٣ فرج الله حلو في موقفه الجريء وعزله واستشهاده

The Memoirs of George al-Batal 3: Farajallah al-Helou in His Courageous Stance, His Isolation, and His Martyrdom

Bidayat

I am Farajallah Helou, there is no other responsible person — his last words before torture killed him and acid dissolved his body. Heikal denied he ever existed.

في صداقة ادوارد سعيد

On the Friendship of Edward Said

As-Safir

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.

جورج البطل، آخر البلاشفة مذكرات قائد شيوعي من لبنان

George al-Batal, the Last of the Bolsheviks: Memoirs of a Communist Leader from Lebanon

Bidayat

At age five he insisted on what he knew despite his father's slap, and solved a murder — the tannery taught him that a generous employer curses communists when a worker carries a clock.

قصة حوار لم يتم

The Story of a Dialogue That Never Was

Bidayat

He chose his "inveterate friend" as interviewer, then reclaimed the answers before they were copied. Only the questions remain from a dialogue that never happened.

Incurable Hope

Extracts from the siege diary: an Israeli officer says "Palestinians are an epidemic"—asked about the resemblance to Hitler, he answers: "Yes." And "boutiques equal the number of martyrs."

30 على انطلاقة «جمول»: شهادة عن فترة التأسيس

30 Years Since the Launch of the LNRF: Testimony on the Founding Period

Bidayat

Don't shoot us, we're withdrawing — the Israeli army left Beirut after JAMOUL operations reached one every five hours.

أيام مع محمود درويش في حصار بيروت صيف ١٩٨٢

Days with Mahmoud Darwish During the Siege of Beirut, Summer 1982

Days with Darwish in the siege — he read us "Read in the name of the fedayee who created from a boot a horizon." I am a poet, not a fighter.

نيو يورك … نيو يورك

New York... New York

New York begins and ends with “jet lag”: a city that sells the world prepackaged and leaves you searching for democracy between garbage and Marines.

نوادر الزمان في بلاد الالمان

Curiosities of the Age in the Land of the Germans

From “Khamas” to pork and the headscarf, Berlin's anecdotes are not all that funny: they show an ignorance so confident it feels entitled to lecture the world.

سيدة الصخور الظفارية

Our Lady of the Dhofari Rocks

As-Safir

From Dhofar, what remains is not the slogan but the image: an unnamed woman on the rocks becoming an icon of revolution, poverty, and veiled hope.

Variations on an Andalusian Theme – Undated Letters to Etel

From Granada to Cana: civil wars replicate—and water did not turn to wine, "blood simply turned into blood."

Our Lady of the Rocks

A literary text on Dhofar: a Freudian slip of the camera turned a shepherdess into a madonna — the tubercular woman asks for medicine from strangers who carry everything except what helps, and the unknown name endures across wars and exiles.

جوزيف سماحة: التوأم!

Joseph Samaha: The Twin!

As-Safir

They call him "Fawwaz" and call me "Joseph" — a twinship. He wrote editorials like dancing dabke: you never know where the blow will land. Who allowed you to take half of me and leave?

سمير قصير، كيف أضعتك؟

Samir Kassir, How Did I Lose You?

As-Safir

"Samir Kassir, how did I lose you?" is a personal elegy that goes beyond physical loss to a political and intellectual estrangement, as "false heirs" attempt to erase Kassir's true legacy by presenting his final years as his entire life.

مع أبو عمار في حصار بيروت

With Abu Ammar During the Siege of Beirut

الكرمل

Phantom jets before the chemical assassination, the accordion plan before "preventive war." Arafat's arenas.

شهادة عن فترة تأسيس «جبهة المقاومة الوطنية اللبنانية»

Testimony on the Founding Period of the Lebanese National Resistance Front

As-Safir

A direct testimony about the clandestine founding of the Lebanese National Resistance Front (Jammoul) in the final days of the 1982 Siege of Beirut, and its role in accelerating the Israeli occupation's withdrawal.