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Prefaces AR Political Economy History 2021 Bidayat

مقدّمة لـ«أسس نقد الاقتصاد السياسي» (١٨٥٧) جزء ٢/١

Introduction to the "Grundrisse" (1857) Part 1/2

Bidayat

In "Grundrisse," Marx challenges the classical economic view that separates and eternalizes production and distribution, revealing their organic unity and historical determination within specific social relations.

Prefaces AR History Politics 2020

مذكرات جارالله عمر

The Memoirs of Jarallah Omar

How could he support one-party rule in the South while fighting to overthrow it in the North? He opposed both war and secession — both sides called him traitor, then assassinated him.

Prefaces AR History Politics 2019

ظفار: شهادة من زمن الثورة – مقدمة الطبعة الثانية

Dhofar: Testimony from the Time of Revolution - Second Edition Preface

In the preface to the second edition of "Dhofar," the author returns to the region decades later, witnessing its transformations and meeting former comrades who assert their revolution prompted official attention, hoping to keep its memory alive.

Prefaces AR History Politics 2017

تقديم كتاب “دم الاخوين”

Introduction to the Book "Blood of the Two Brothers"

Civil violence and art from the Cathars to drones — the Cathars' tragedy: they convinced themselves the world is evil, so they became the evil.

Prefaces AR Political Economy Politics 2016 Bidayat

عودة علي شريعتي

The Return of Ali Shariati

Bidayat

Nasrallah and Khamenei declare Shariati's era over — insisting it has "passed" only confirms it is returning: "Red Shiism" vs. "Black."

Prefaces AR History Politics 2016

انطونيو غرامشي – ملاحظات عن التاريخ الايطالي – فترة النهضة القومية

Antonio Gramsci - Notes on Italian History - The National Renaissance Period

What matters in Gramsci goes beyond Italy: state, hegemony, and revolutions that cannot be read through class alone, yet make no sense without it.

Prefaces AR Political Economy History 2015

كتاب لينين “تطوّر الرأسمالية في رُوسيَا”

Lenin's "The Development of Capitalism in Russia"

Lenin's "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" settled the debate with populism, laying the foundations for the Leninist method of applying Marxism to Russian reality, and remains a living model for concrete analysis.

Prefaces AR Politics 2012 As-Safir

مقدمة كتاب السفير

Introduction to the Al-Safir Book

As-Safir

Preface: writing in revolutionary time mixes pleasure with confusion — the word becomes an act of change, and the writer must nurture hope.

Prefaces AR Art & Literature Anthropology 2012

تقديم كتاب: إن كان بدك تعشق، كتابات في الثقافة الشعبية

Book Introduction: If You Want to Fall in Love - Writings on Popular Culture

Gilgamesh is popular culture, Picasso drew from African masks — no rupture between "high" and "low," but the key distinction: culture produced by the people vs. culture produced for their consumption.

Prefaces AR Art & Literature History 2011

في أدب الصداقة: المهم هو النور

On the Literature of Friendship: What Matters Is the Light

A new book is a loaf of bread, a manuscript aged wine — Marwan waits for light in Berlin. Spring 2011: Bouazizi fulfilled Hikmet's testament: "If we don't all burn, how will darkness become light?"

Prefaces AR History 2007

تقديم لـ-تاريخ البقاع

Introduction to the History of the Bekaa

A boy before a locked library in Zahle — and a historian who broke Mount Lebanon's monopoly on Lebanese history. History won't be written by sectarian consensus: either unanimity or veto.

Book Reviews AR Art & Literature History 2006 Bidayat

ادوارد سعيد في «الاسلوب المتأخر» – الوقاحة بما هي منهج فكري

Edward Said on "Late Style" - Impudence as Intellectual Method

Bidayat

"Intellectual impudence" is the method in Edward Said's "On Late Style," where creators reject conformity, embrace contradiction, and remain "out of place" and against the current until the very end.

Prefaces AR History 2005

تقديم تاريخ الاسر الشرقية

Introduction to the History of Eastern Families

Published half a century after its author's death, 'History of Eastern Families' reveals that the passion for genealogy is not just a search for origins, but a social function that legitimizes present positions and invents roots for them.

Prefaces AR Art & Literature 2003

تعريب ادوارد سعيد

Arabizing Edward Said

A promise to Said: "I'll make you speak Arabic" — Arabization as musical rearrangement: not the same piece, but the feelings remain.

Prefaces AR Art & Literature 1990

تقديم: الملصقات بوصفها أسلحة

Introduction: Posters as Weapons

You can only forget what you know — a tank driver in Basra aimed at a Saddam portrait and sparked an uprising. Posters are weapons.

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