التفكير الاجتماعي في أزمنة التحولات الكبرى

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

SifR

What is needed are forces that translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

Democracy in the Arab World

The Arab ruler concedes everything to Washington and nothing to his people — a pyromaniac firefighter.

Social Thinking in Times of Great Transformations

The left must translate Palestine into questions of power and livelihood — not rhetorical solidarity while neoliberalism devours the rest.

“The Architecture of Empire”: Writing as Resistance to Fascism

Roy and Traboulsi dissect how neoliberalism and religious nationalism reinforce each other — from India's caste architecture to Lebanon's captured resistance — and ask what writing can do when the state controls the story.

فواز طرابلسي: «زمن اليسار الجديد» سؤال النشأة وسياق التحولات

Fawwaz Traboulsi: "The Time of the New Left" - The Question of Origins and the Context of Transformations

Either the left becomes the party of answers to neoliberalism and social justice — or religious and right-wing extremism takes its place.

استئناف نقاش مع فكر مهدي عامل – ٢

Resuming a Discussion with the Thought of Mahdi Amil - Part 2

SifR

Can theory invent history? And is Marxist-Leninist thought truly absent from Arab thinking? A critical discussion with Mahdi Amil.

استئناف حوار مع فكر مهدي عامل -١

Resuming a Dialogue with the Thought of Mahdi Amil - Part 1

SifR

Mahdi Amil was distinguished by his theoretical independence from Soviet orthodoxy and the Communist Party, yet he remained rigorously committed to justifying its policies, creating a tension between his thought and his theoretical and political practice.

عن الماركسية والتاريخ والثورات والدولة الوطنية والمجتمع المدني والطائفية وأشياء أخرى

On Marxism, History, Revolutions, the Nation-State, Civil Society, Sectarianism, and Other Things

الترا صوت

In a comprehensive intellectual review, the author re-examines fundamental concepts and experiences in the Arab world, calling for a critical, self-reliant approach that transcends imported ideas and simplistic dichotomies.

غزة – فلسطين والصراع العربي الاسرائيلي

Gaza - Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

From the 1982 Beirut siege to Gaza today, the AI-powered brutality of the occupation is revealed against the backdrop of popular resistance, Arab regime complicity, and an unprecedented surge of global solidarity.

عن الماركسية والثورات والمجتمع المدني والطائفية

On Marxism, Revolutions, Civil Society, and Sectarianism

Bidayat

This article interrogates post-Cold War concepts adopted uncritically by the Arab world—from Marxism to the national state, civil society, and sectarianism—calling for a critical vision rooted in Arab reality.

المقابلة – فوّاز طرابلسي: توجد دولة ولكن لا توجد معارضة

The Interview - Fawwaz Traboulsi: There Is a State but There Is No Opposition

SifR

The interview challenges dominant narratives of the Lebanese crisis, asserting that the state exists and serves an oligarchy, and that the real problem lies in the absence of an organized opposition.

عن الطوائف والطبقات والحروب الاهلية

On Sects, Classes, and Civil Wars

The weakest expression of societal and power relations is the political one — manufacturing experience demands tools beyond politics.

نحن وين؟ || فقر أم إفقار مع د. فواز طرابلسي أوان | Awan

Where Are We? Poverty or Impoverishment with Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi - Awan

Awan

The Lebanese situation is not mere poverty, but systematic impoverishment resulting from deliberate policies that concentrated wealth among the few at the expense of the majority, fundamentally altering our understanding of the crisis and the responsibility of those who engineered it.

قراءة غرامشي في العصر النيوليبراليّ

Reading Gramsci in the Neoliberal Age

Gramsci in the neoliberal age: hegemony through consent, not coercion — "common sense" makes the ruling class's interests seem natural.

كيف وصلنا لهون؟ || عن الطائفية مع فواز طرابلسي

How Did We Get Here? On Sectarianism with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Sectarianism in Lebanon is not an inevitable fate, but a complex historical structure shaped by colonial interventions and mandate policies, leading the country to its current political impasse.

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

How Did We Get Here? On Sectarianism with Fawwaz Traboulsi, Part Two

Sectarianism in Lebanon is not a matter of fate, but a political system instrumentalized by colonial powers and local elites to consolidate their rule and fragment society.

الحرية ضد العدالة والمساواة نقاش لأفكار فون هايك النيوليبراليّة

Freedom Against Justice and Equality: A Discussion of Friedrich von Hayek's Neoliberal Ideas

Bidayat

The article discusses Friedrich von Hayek's neoliberal ideas, which prioritize individual liberty over justice and equality, showing how his concept of market "spontaneity" ignores the role of human struggles in achieving justice and transforms the market into a speculative "casino."

علاء الدين العالم – محاورة فوّاز طرابلسي

Alaa al-Din al-Alem - A Conversation with Fawwaz Traboulsi

The October 2019 uprising is a historic break with the post-war neoliberal 'reconstruction' system, facing the challenge of building independent leadership to resist austerity and hold the corrupt accountable.

مقابلة الثقافة الجديدة

Al-Thaqafa al-Jadida Interview

Ath-Thaqafa Al-Jadida

An intellectual and political journey that never separated struggle from writing, offering critical revisions of civil war experiences and the challenges of the Left, and reaffirming Marxism as a reference for understanding contemporary capitalism.

فوّاز طرابلسي: حضور سايكس ـ بيكو فاعل في الثقافة السياسية العربية

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Sykes-Picot Remains Active in Arab Political Culture

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Sykes-Picot became predetermined fate whitewashing rulers—but current borders don't even match its map.

Edward Said in Translation – The personal and the academic

A lecture on translating Said and the friendship: "Your language is convoluted—I plan to deconstruct it and reconstruct in Arabic." Twenty years barred from the US, and emails about Tahiyya Karioka, Cyd Charisse, and Oslo as "the peace of the weak."

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

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

Bidayat

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

Interview L’Orient Le Jour – “Fratricide et guerre civile”

L'Orient Le Jour Interview - "Fratricide and Civil War"

L'Orient Le Jour

An interview about The Blood of the Two Brothers: in civil war, the executioner hides in the victim's body—what is needed is not remembering the horrors but remembering the causes.

توضيح من فواز طرابلسي: لنتذكر الأسباب والدروس في الحروب الاهلية وننسى العنف

A Clarification from Fawwaz Traboulsi: Let Us Remember the Causes and Lessons of Civil Wars, and Forget the Violence

Al-Akhbar

Remember causes and lessons, forget the violence — the opposite of the illusion that reminding people of massacres prevents wars. Reducing war to sectarianism is explaining water by water.