Category Archives: Alisar’s notes and articles
MEDITATION ON THE DESTRUCTION OF ALEPPO, HOMS AND THE SYRIAN URBAN CENTRES
http://www.thewhy.com/meditation-destruction-aleppo-homs-syrian-urban-centres/ Published in The Why Can life spring out of death, can history be reborn out of its ashes, and can heritage be restored? Can a city reduced to debris and melted concrete rise again? Can archaeology exist without archaeology … Continue reading
FLASH BACK: HOMS REVISITED
FLASH BACK: HOMS REVISITED LEST WE FORGET HOW THE SYRIAN REGIME DESTROYED BABA AMR, THUS CHANGING THE COURSE OF THE REVOLUTION 19 May 2014 By Alisar Iram On my Hello page to my blog, I had mentioned that I would be travelling back … Continue reading
الأسطورة وثورة الشعب السوري Myth and the Syrian Revolution
See also the English version: https://alisariram.wordpress.com/myth-and-the-syrian-revolution-a-tribute-to-the-syrian-people/ كنت دائما مهتمة بالأسطورة و ذلك لأنني أرى فيها انعكاسا للحياة كما أرى في الحياة انعكاسا للاسطورة. وكان أول كتاب نشرلي يدور حول الأساطير و القصص الخرافية. الأسطورة هي نوع خارق او امثولي من القصص … 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
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
The Anti-war Campaigners would do better to shout: Hands off Syria, Assad!
http://therepublicgs.net/2013/09/14/the-anti-war-campaigners-would-do-better-to-shout-hands-off-syria-assad/ The Anti-war Campaigners would do better to shout: Hands off Syria, Assad! Alisar Iram 14 September 2013 Below are some of my thoughts on the Anti-war Movement and the antiwar campaigners, in addition to the infiltrators: the Assadis who … Continue reading
Open Letter to President Obama and the reply to the letter from President Obama
7 September, 2013 This open letter to Obama started in January 2009 and I am finishing it today. We have a dream, Mr President As I listened to Obama’s inauguration speech yesterday, like millions and millions of people all over … Continue reading
Chemical attack?what chemical attack? Sorry it is alleged and cannot be verified
Nothing but a gratification of the appetites and wishful, distorted, speculative,futile thinking: this sums up my opinion of the International Media in its reaction to the chemical attack in the Ghouta of Damascus which took place on 21 August and … Continue reading
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My art and poetry before the Syrian Revolution
http://alisariramart.wordpress.com/ I have decided to start a blog for my art and poetry before the Revolution. My art in particular ,which was greatly inspired by Arab Islamic art and civilization is very relevant to this blog dedicated to the Syrian … Continue reading