By Dr. Adnan Bouzan Politics, in our contemporary reality, is no longer a rational practice for organizing shared life; it has become a form of organizing domination. What we face today is not a passing malfunction in the management of power, but a transformation in its very nature. Politics has been severed from its historical function as an expression of the general will and has instead become an instrument for reproducing control, regulating society, and perpetuating existing relations of power. In this context, politics cannot be understood in isolation from...
What is taking place today along the banks of the Euphrates River between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the militia of the Interim Damascus Authority (known as the al-Jolani gangs) cannot be understood as a conventional military confrontation, nor...
By Dr. Adnan Bozan More than a decade after its outbreak, the war in Syria can no longer be understood...
By Dr. Adnan Bouzan Politics in this geography is no longer a rational act of managing public affairs; it has turned into organized crime, conducted with full awareness and cold blood, and marketed to peoples as an unavoidable fate or an unquestionable wisdom. What we are living through today is not a crisis of governments nor a stumble of systems, but a comprehensive collapse of the very idea of politics itself—when it is severed from ethics, stripped of any relation to the human being, and reduced to instruments of repression, mobilizing rhetoric, and mechanisms of subjugation. A politics that does not produce justice is not politics at all, but deferred violence. A politics that does not recognize pluralism is not a state, but a latent civil war. And a politics governed by the logic of domination rather than the logic of the...
By Dr. Adnan Bozan In recent days, we have witnessed an unprecedented escalation between Iran and Israel. The confrontation has moved beyond indirect conflict and limited security skirmishes to a state of open war with multiple dimensions: missiles, assassinations, cyber operations, and drone attacks. This is not a traditional war between two standing armies on a defined battlefield. Rather, it is a hybrid war in which geography intersects with technology, religion with geopolitics, and overt operations with covert ones — a war entangled with both internal and external actors. The Present: A Complex and Intertwined War Scene At this very...
By Dr. Adnan Bouzan In a revealing political moment—one in which masks can no longer hold—the American position appears as the distilled outcome of a long-standing logic of crude pragmatism: a logic governed neither by values, nor alliances, nor the moral discourse Washington has long promoted, but solely by a volatile calculus of interests. What was articulated by Tom Barrack, whether in its explicit wording or implicit meanings, can only be read...
بقلم: د. عدنان بوزان في أعماق تاريخ البشرية تنسج الثورات الشعبية خيوطاً من الشجاعة والصمود، تحمل في طياتها الصرخات المكبوتة للشعوب الذين يسعون إلى الحرية والعدالة. إنّ الثورات الشعبية أو الانتفاضة تمثل فصلاً بارزاً في التحولات الاجتماعية، حيث تنهض الشعوب بشجاعة وإصرار لتحدي الظلم والفساد، وتسعى إلى بناء عالم أفضل ينبعث فيه نور العدالة والحرية. إنها ليست مجرد صفحة من التاريخ، بل هي حكاية عن صمود الإنسانية وإرادتها القوية في مواجهة الاستبداد...
By: Dr. Adnan Bouzan At the beginning of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to impose new tariffs of up to 25% on imports from the European Union. With the escalation of the trade wars he has initiated, some did not expect his policies to have a rapid impact on the European economy, which is already facing huge challenges. However, with ongoing economic crises in major EU countries,...
By Dr. Adnan Bouzan Ignorant societies do not oppose falsehood as much as they oppose those who expose it, for their moral and psychological structures are founded upon the principle of obedience rather than understanding, upon submission rather than critique. In such an atmosphere, truth is not received as an illumination of consciousness, but as a threat to the harmony of collective illusion — a germ infecting the symbolic system through which man lives and derives the justification for his existence. Thus, truth becomes, in the consciousness of a community possessed by its dogmas, an intellectual crime and a dagger that strikes at the collective self built upon delusion rather than knowledge. Ignorance, at its deepest level, is not a transient condition nor an accidental state; it is a self-sustaining...
By Dr. Adnan Bouzan Introduction The current Kurdish situation—in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran—cannot be approached as a mere reflection of immediate political events, the outcome of tactical mistakes committed at specific historical moments, or even as a form of self-inflicted failure in managing conflict. Such a superficial interpretation fails to explain the persistence of the tragedy, and does...
By Dr. Adnan Bouzan We are the ones who loved life when life was narrow like a shirt pierced by bullets, who fell in love with freedom as it walked barefoot over the glass of exile. We were not devotees of death, nor lovers of rifles. We planted wheat in school notebooks, and dreamed of a house with a window opening onto tomorrow, not onto barricades. But fate— that arrogant fool— threw...
What Reuters has revealed cannot be treated as a passing news item or a mere journalistic leak. It must be read in a deeper context, as...
By Dr. Adnan Bozan In an age where man is supposed to be the child of freedom and knowledge, there are still those who insist on shoving you back into the cage of the tribe, reducing your entire dignity to the name of...
