Monthly Archives: January 2014
Poems by the poet
What is pulling me to poetry more and more as the Syrian trsgedy continues to spiral towards the ultimate, is that poetry invents it own language and speaks with a logic that defies logic in its attempt to confront pain … Continue reading
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Some diverse thoughts and reflections inspired by the Syrian Revolution
Sensibilities The only thing that brute force and armed tyranny cannot defeat is the intellect and the soul. Even if they kill and destroy many of us the word will live, the thought will live, the creative energy of the Revolution will … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Freedom, Meditation, Reflections, Sensibilities, Syria, Syrian regime, The Syrian Revolution, Thoughts, Uncategorized
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Where to Syria of the Sorrows?
( I consider the following article as one of my most important articles on the Syrian Revolution) I started this article 2 weeks ago, before the convening of Geneva 2 in Switzerland on the 22nd of January. This fact does … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Annihilation, Civilian struggle and activism, civilians, Civilization, Culture, Destruction of cities and habitats, Enlightenment, French Revolution, International Jihadism, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic civilization, Islamists, Legacy of the Syrian Revolution, Literature of enlightenment, Massacres, Qaeda, Russia, Shiaa and Sunna, Starvation, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Torture, Tyranny, Violence
Tagged Alisar Iram: articles, annihilation, Arab Islamic civilization, Civilization, French Revolution, history, Human Rights, humanity, Industrial torture, ISIS, Islam, Islamic civilization, Islamists, Legacy of the Syrian Revolution, Literature of enlightenment, Qaeda, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Tyranny, unspeakable acts, violence
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Report into the credibility of certain evidence with regard to Torture and Execution of Persons Incarcerated by the current Syrian regime.
Warning: Graphic tragic images which viewers might find painful to watch We thought it was bad, terribly bad, nightmarishly bad, absolutely unequivocally bad, but not this bad, O God, no, not this bad….I think we should all be treated for … Continue reading
البلبل والوردة The Nightingale and the Rose
ايها الناقوس رِنَ… رنَ… رنَ رنّم… رنّم… رنّم الا ان الرنة الضائعة هي الرنة .التي تقرع في قلبي *لقد صار قلبي، لا، ليس قارة *وليس مرعى لغزلان وليس بيتا لاوثان أوكعبة طائف فلقد صار مجرّة وصار هذا الكون الذي … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's poems, Arabic, Ibn Arabi, John Donne, Love, Mysticism, Sufi poetry
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The Rose and the Nightingale
Ring… Ring… Ring The bells do Toll Ding…ding…ding But the missing beat is the one Ringing in my heart. My heart has become Not a continent,* Not the pasture of gazelles,** No, not a temple or a mosque or a … Continue reading
The Syrian Revolution and Victorian London
It is strange how when we write about suffering and agony we seem to connect with all those who suffered the tyranny of fate and injustice now and in times past. Yesterday I wrote the short piece below and a … Continue reading
The original sin, Assad and Medusa
Two concepts sprang into my mind this morning, that of the Greek monster of vengeance the Medusa, growing venomous snakes for hair, who used to turn all those who gazed on her to stone, and that of the Christian concept of … Continue reading
Starvation and more starvation in Syria
This is part of a report I compiled and wrote in October 2003. The areas under siege then are still under siege ,in addition to reported starvation in Raqqa and part of Aleppo because the Syrian people have now to … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Ghouta of Damascus, Humanity, ISIS, Qaeda, Raqqa, Starvation and malnutrition in Syria, Starvation in Syria, Starving Syrian children, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Victims
Tagged Aleppo, Alisar Iram: articles, humanity, Hunger, Images, ISIS, Qaeda, Raqqa, starvation, Syria, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The Ghouta of Damascus, The Syrian people, Victims, Yarmouk Refugee Camp
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Protest is the Heroism that tyranny can crush but cannot wipe out from our collective memory
Protest is the Heroism that tyranny can crush, but cannot wipe out from our collective memory There came a time when the Syrian people could no longer say yes to tyranny and maintain silence, pretending that surrendering their will … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Alisar's notes and articles, Assad, Freedom, Humanity, International Jihadism, Islamists, Protest, Protest Movement, Qaeda, Syria, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
Tagged Activism, Al Qaeda, Alisar Iram: articles, Assad, freedom, humanity, International Jihadism, Islamists, Justice, Syria, syrian government, Syrian people, Syrian Protest Movement, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
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