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Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2020 Bidayat

ماذا يستطيع الحراك؟ جدل المتخيّل والضروري

What Can the Movement Do? The Dialectic of the Imagined and the Necessary

Bidayat

The Hirak faces a paradox between the dream of radical change and the necessity of resisting the crisis; if it keeps demanding the impossible without achieving the necessary, it will fail to secure the rights of the popular majority.

Memoirs AR Political Economy Politics 2020 Bidayat

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.

Papers AR History Politics 2019 Bidayat

من سويسرا الشرق إلى هانوي العرب تاريخ مختصر لصورة بيروت

From the Switzerland of the East to the Hanoi of the Arabs: A Brief History of Beirut's Image

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Beirut, port for assembling cities — from "Switzerland of the East" to "Hanoi of the Arabs": every image has its political and class context.

Articles AR History Politics 2019 Bidayat

الثورة السلمية في عظمتها وحدودها

The Peaceful Revolution in Its Greatness and Its Limits

Bidayat

The Sudanese peaceful revolution succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship and imposing a partnership with the military, but it faces major challenges in holding perpetrators accountable and securing genuine civilian authority over the army and security forces.

Editorials AR Politics 2019 Bidayat

السودان، الجزائر، إلخ. استئناف البدايات

Sudan, Algeria, Etc.: Resuming the Beginnings

Bidayat

The popular movements in Sudan and Algeria represent a resumption of the 2011 uprisings, posing the challenge of achieving genuine change that expresses the will of the people in the face of authoritarian regimes and the interference of old and external powers.

Translations AR History 2019 Bidayat

مقالات عن سورية ولبنان، ١٨٦٠

Articles on Syria and Lebanon, 1860

Bidayat

Translation: Marx in 1860 reveals great-power horse-trading over Syria's corpse — but neglects the internal causes: the collapse of the muqata'ji system and peasant uprisings.

Memoirs AR History Politics 2019 Bidayat

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.

Papers AR History Politics 2019 Bidayat

تصوّرات عربيّة لاتفاقيّة سايكس-پيكو الوحدة المقدّسة ورُهاب التقسيم

Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement: Sacred Unity and the Phobia of Partition

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A century later, Sykes-Picot has become a myth explaining every division and foretelling the next, married with the Balfour Declaration, where all plurality is condemned as a violation of unity and 'fitna' attributed to external 'projects.'

Papers AR History Politics 2019 Bidayat

ماركس في «ربيع الشعوب» ١٨٤٨ بناء الحقل السياسي والتعلّم من الممارسة

Marx in the "Spring of Nations" 1848: Building the Political Field and Learning from Practice

Bidayat

Marx's engagement with the 1848 revolutions refined his understanding of class representation and the state, leading him to view socialism as the necessary completion of political democracy to resolve the contradiction between political and social inequality.

Interviews AR History Politics 2018 Bidayat

جورج البطل، آخر البلاشفة ٢ شيوعيّون في «حوادث الـ٥٨»

George al-Batal, the Last Bolshevik (2): Communists in the 1958 Crisis

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"You're good at demonstrations but can't shoot," Jumblatt told them — so the communists smuggled three hundred weapons past his own checkpoints.

Memoirs AR History Politics 2017 Bidayat

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.

Papers AR History 2017 Bidayat

١٩٦٧، ١٩٨٢، ٢٠١٧ الآلة الجهنمية: من الحروب الوطنية الى الحروب الاهلية

1967, 1982, 2017 - The Infernal Machine: From National Wars to Civil Wars

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The infernal machine: armies built to fight the enemy shattered against their own peoples — and between 1967 and 2017, we know Guantanamo better than Sednaya.

Editorials AR History Politics 2017 Bidayat

ثورة أكتوبر الروسية ١٩١٧: البدايات

The Russian October Revolution 1917: The Beginnings

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October centenary editorial: not about the system but the revolution — a decade of freedom and experimentation crushed by bureaucracy and the sole leader.

Papers AR History 2016 Bidayat

القتل من السماء تاريخ موجز للطيران الحربي ضد المدنيّين

Killing from the Sky: A Brief History of Military Aviation Against Civilians

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Churchill proposed mustard gas on Iraqis as "more humane" — killing from the sky began against the colonized before Guernica. Daraa's people answered barrel bombs by drilling for water.

Articles AR History Politics 2016 Bidayat

مئوية سايكس بيكو الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary: Maps and History

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The Great Loot: Gouraud raised his glass — "the deal will be profitable!" What the French unified economically, the independentists divided in 1950. One partition Sykes-Picot can't be blamed for.

Prefaces AR Political Economy Politics 2016 Bidayat

عودة علي شريعتي

The Return of Ali Shariati

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

Memoirs AR Art & Literature History 2016 Bidayat

قصة حوار لم يتم

The Story of a Dialogue That Never Was

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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.

Articles AR History Politics 2016 Bidayat

مئوية سايكس بيكو – نقاط على حروف الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary - Dots on the Letters of Maps and History

Bidayat

The article deconstructs the mythologization of Sykes-Picot, showing it as a prolonged colonial process linked to the Balfour Declaration for seizing Palestine, and reshaping the region based on major powers' interests while denying the majority self-determination.

Articles AR History 2016 Bidayat

تقاسيم على مقام الوحدة والتقسيم – تصوّرات عربية لاتفاقية سايكس-پيكو

Variations on Unity and Partition - Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement

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ISIS declared it "broke Sykes-Picot" — as if the borders weren't already a sieve. The agreement has become a myth: one headline suffices to launch partition paranoia.

Articles AR Political Economy Politics 2015 Bidayat

الحراك الشعبي في العراق ولبنان ملفات الفساد بيد الناس

The Popular Movement in Iraq and Lebanon: Corruption Files in the People's Hands

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In the name of religion, the thieves robbed us — sectarianism isn't the cause of corruption but its cover, and the World Bank fights "corruption" with the privatization that produces it.

Articles AR History Politics 2015 Bidayat

في أربعينية حرب الـ ٧٥ – واجب التذكّر وضرورة النسيان

On the Fortieth Anniversary of the '75 War - The Duty to Remember and the Need to Forget

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Official amnesia as "failure to remember" — kill hundreds of civilians, you're acquitted; kill a statesman, you're prosecutable. We can only forget what we remember.

Interviews AR Art & Literature History Politics 2015 Bidayat

الأمل لا يعني التغاضي عن الانتكاسات مقابلة مع فواز طرابلسي

Hope Does Not Mean Overlooking Setbacks: An Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Bidayat

Marxism gave him the confidence to write about everything — and hope does not mean overlooking setbacks.

Biographies AR History Politics Sociology 2015 Bidayat

سليمان تقي الدين، وداعاً

Suleiman Taqi al-Din, Farewell

Bidayat

He never stopped fighting in life, and never stopped fighting in death — and the red star remained his compass after the comrades dispersed.

Articles AR Politics 2015 Bidayat

اليمن في عين العاصفة

Yemen in the Eye of the Storm

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The richest Arab states bomb the poorest — the Gulf Initiative destroyed Yemen by pardoning the dictator. Camp David summit: an arms fair, not a diplomatic forum.