Category Archives: Activism

The war children of Syria: our reluctant heroes

I am calling these children whom you are going to see below our unknown reluctant heroes for the ordeals they have been through surpass the imagination. They have undergone the ordeals of fire, hunger, terrible injuries, amputated limbs, the loss … Continue reading

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The story of Father Paolo and the picturesque Deir Mar Mousa

DEIR MAR MOUSA – THE STORY OF FATHER PAOLO DALL’OGLIO AND THE PICTURESQUE DEIR MAR MOUSA By Alisar Iram By Alisar Iram / in My Take       / tags Kidnapping, Religion, Revolution, Syria, Terrorism, War What has prompted me to revise this article and try to publish … Continue reading

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There will always be a Syria and a Syrian Revolution

http://therepublicgs.net/2014/02/18/there-will-always-be-a-syria-and-a-syrian-revolution/ By Alisar Iram Mars the bringer of war A great deal of what is being written about the Syrian Revolution at this stage is descriptive and diagnostic. In fact the patient is on the verge of extinction because of … Continue reading

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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

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Addressed to Al-Qaeda affiliates, ISIS (Da’ish), Al Nusra Front and those in the Islamic Front who are emulating them

  All honour rests with the Syrian people in their struggle for freedom against the Syrian regime Listen to us very carefully, you who are rampaging in Syria, pretending to fight the regime, while in truth you are fighting the … Continue reading

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The abduction of the members of the Violations Documentation Center in Syria (Douma)

http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/home The Office of the Violations Documentation Center in Syria was attacked last night  and ransacked by masked unknown armed men  in Douma, a town in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, mainly held by Opposition fighters. Its staff members were abducted … Continue reading

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Syria for Sale: سوريا للبيع

They are selling Syria for thirty pieces of silver: the chemical weapons. They will get their chemical weapons or the promise of them then wash their hands off the blood of the Syrian people like Pilate, leaving Christ alone to … Continue reading

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Farewell to Syria, for a while: في وداع سورية… مؤقتا

Farewell to Syria, for a while By Yassin Al Haj Saleh October 12, 2013 I have tried hard for the last two and a half years to stay in Syria. It was important for me as a writer to stay … Continue reading

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Testimony of an activist who escaped from a Syrian state security branch

The testimony and documentation below were issued by the Violation Documentation Center in Syria which includes lawyers, doctors and Human Rights activists. I expect that the readers can take their word for it without the need for further verification, the magic … Continue reading

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Help Syria now. Tomorrow it may be too late: open letter to the intellectuals and opinion makers in the West

This article by the dissident writer Yassin Al Haj Saleh was first published  in Arabic, then was translated into French (see my last post but one), Spanish and English, appearing successively in several Arab newspapers, Le Monde, El Mundo and the Guardian. … Continue reading

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