Of the Left and Other Demons
In his book project entitled Of the Left and Other Demons, Saghieh retraces his trajectory as a journalist navigating both a turbulent region and a mutating political tradition. He does so by probing the notion of ideological self-fashioning against the backdrop of his own intellectual and professional transformations as a militant journalist in postwar Lebanon. As he reflects on his experience of covering two decades of neoliberal policies, imperialist invasions, and popular uprisings, he points to the ways in which traditional print and visual media have sustained the paradox of being both a catalyst for change and a tool for repression. At the intersection of autobiography and historiography, the book makes visible the fault lines of the contemporary Arab and Lebanese left and attempts to identify the prospects of leftist ideologies of emancipation.