“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ce n’est pas le multiconfessionnalisme, mais un système oligarchique qui gouverne le Liban – Interview Mediapart

It Is Not Multi-Confessionalism, but an Oligarchic System That Governs Lebanon - Mediapart Interview

Mediapart

An interview with Mediapart: it is not the confessional system that governs Lebanon but an oligarchy in which the political and capitalist classes have fused—and sectarianism is the ideal system for whitewashing everything.

حوار مع فواز طرابلسي عن تجربته الفكرية والثورات وإعادة تأسيس اليسار

A Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi on His Intellectual Experience, Revolutions, and Refounding the Left

Al Jadeed

Fawwaz Traboulsi asserts that the Arab revolutions were radical popular explosions, not social movements, and that the left needs re-founding to confront neoliberalism and sectarianism, which deepen disparities.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (4-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (4/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

In a paradox revealing the limits of Communist internationalism, the Soviets did not object to Salmin's removal but opposed Abd al-Fattah's presidency because he was a 'northerner,' amidst internal conflicts that led to the liquidation of comrades.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (3-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (3/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

From al-Hamdi's assassination in Sana'a to Salmin's end in Aden, chapters of Yemen's bloody conflicts unfold, where internal divisions reached the point of readiness for battle, and a personal letter survives to bear witness to that era.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (2-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (2/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

After the left took power in "Democratic Yemen," the conflict within the ruling troika exposed the contradiction between the ideological drive towards Marxism and one-party rule, and Salmin's pragmatism in facing economic realities.

فواز طرابلسي يتذكّر الترويكا في “اليمن الديمقراطي” (1-4)

Fawwaz Traboulsi Remembers the Troika in "Democratic Yemen" (1/4)

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

The author recounts his personal experience with leftist rule in Democratic Yemen, revealing the dynamics and internal contradictions of the ruling 'troika,' including the conflict between the city and the countryside.

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.

كيف نفهم ما يجري في لبنان؟ حوار مع «فواز طرابلسي»

How Do We Understand What Is Happening in Lebanon? A Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi

The October 17 uprising is unprecedented in its peaceful popular movement against Lebanon's post-civil war system, yet it faces a paradox between its aspirations for change and the challenges of "excess of politics" and lack of cross-sectarian organization.

مقابلة شاملة مع فواز طرابلسي عن الثورة والحرب في سورية

A Comprehensive Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on Revolution and War in Syria

Bidayat

The Syrian revolution, an expression of a deep crisis, was pushed into civil war by regime violence, yet it remains a revolution with class and sectarian dimensions requiring a clear vision from the Left and opposition.

interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi on the Syrian revolution

An interview (2013): "Syrian revolutionaries owe nobody an apology"—militarization was forced by the regime, and the US seeks to salvage regimes through a military-Islamist assemblage. The opposition must crystallize its vision now.

حرير وحديد – مقابلة مع سنان أنطون ـ جدلية

Silk and Iron - Interview with Sinan Antoon, Jadaliyya

Jadaliyya

"Silk and Iron," a book born from surplus research for "A Modern History of Lebanon," narrates how individual and collective destinies intertwined in the 19th century through historical facts stranger than fiction.