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.

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.

مائة عام على اتفاقية سايكس-بيكو واعلان بلفور

One Hundred Years Since the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration

Conspiracy-seekers hunting for "projects" overlook the declared imperial strategy: the "Global War on Terror" — a real imperial project that needs no quotation marks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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.

De la Suisse de l’Orient au Hanoi du monde arabe : bref historique d’une représentation

From the Switzerland of the East to the Hanoi of the Arab World: A Brief History of a Representation

Autrement

From "Switzerland of the Orient" to "Hanoi of the Arab world"—Beirut is a city made of the desires and fears of others, and having destroyed itself under its projected roles, now searches for an author.

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.

Palestine In The “Fatal Triangle”

Chiha reduced Palestine from a "project of planetary domination" to "difficulties"—and for the first and last time, he defended industry.