تأملات كورونيالية – قابيل، انكيدو وجورج حاتم

Coronial Reflections - Cain, Enkidu, and George Hatem

When humans domesticated animals, animals retaliated with plague — Enkidu was humanized through woman but died incomplete. In the 21st century, the savage is entirely human.

Socotra l’ensorcelleuse fait son entrée dans la modernité

Enchanting Socotra Enters Modernity

Socotra lagged behind the continents millions of years ago and still hesitates—between enchantment, history, oil, and tourism, the island enters modernity while needing a single doctor.

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.

عيد البربارة والصراع الطبقي

Saint Barbara's Day and the Class Struggle

The Feast of Barbara: collective begging — the Rahbanis warned: "Poverty, when hungry, eats the king." No one listened. Hunger ate Beirut's port in the 1975 carnival.

نوادر الزمان في بلاد الالمان

Curiosities of the Age in the Land of the Germans

From “Khamas” to pork and the headscarf, Berlin's anecdotes are not all that funny: they show an ignorance so confident it feels entitled to lecture the world.

سيدة الصخور الظفارية

Our Lady of the Dhofari Rocks

As-Safir

From Dhofar, what remains is not the slogan but the image: an unnamed woman on the rocks becoming an icon of revolution, poverty, and veiled hope.

Our Lady of the Rocks

A literary text on Dhofar: a Freudian slip of the camera turned a shepherdess into a madonna — the tubercular woman asks for medicine from strangers who carry everything except what helps, and the unknown name endures across wars and exiles.

Reflections on Culture and Folklore in Lebanon

Folklore is the "matrix of every culture": the dabkeh is a pre-monotheistic fertility rite, proverbs are ruins of old tales—and the Rahbanis and Ziad created modern folklore confronting war and hypocrisy.

Genealogy: Science or Practical Illusion?

Genealogy is "practical illusion" per Ibn Khaldun: its utility lies not in knowledge but in cementing solidarity and "social honor"—and families accept from their own history only what pleases them.

فواز طرابلسي حول كتابه “يا قمر مشغرة”

Fawwaz Traboulsi on His Book "O Moon of Mashghara"

Drawing on a family archive from Mashghara, "Ya Qamar Mashghara" re-historicizes Greater Lebanon from a social and economic perspective, moving beyond narratives that reduce its history to Mount Lebanon or sectarian groups.

Les transformations des structures tribales depuis l’indépendance du Yémen du Sud

Transformations of Tribal Structures Since South Yemen's Independence

A Marxism that never studied its own social formation: tribal structures in South Yemen did not disappear under "classist" discourse but operated clandestinely until they exploded in January 1986.