Category Archives: Damascus
Leighton House Museum, Sir Richard Burton, Syrian Ceramics, the Syrian Revolution and I
I woke up this morning missing my life as a potter, missing the clay, missing its feel and textures for there is a difference to the touch between porcelain and stoneware and between earthenware and stoneware, clays out of which … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Arab Islamic art, Damascus, Iznik Tiles, Language of ornament, Leighton House Mureum, Leighton House Museum, Lord Frederick Leighton, Mamluk and Ottoman Syrian tiles, Pottery, Richard Francis Burton, Syrian ceramics, Syrian tiles, Victorian art, William De Morgan
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's articles, Alisar Iram: ceramics, Damascus, Damascus ceramics, Damascus ceramics in the 15 and the 16th centuries, Geometric and floral, Histoty of art, Iznik tiles, Language of ornament, Leighton House Museum, Lord Frederick Leighton, Mamluk and Ottoman ceramic tiles, Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus tiles, pottery, Richard Francis Burton, Syria, The Arab Hall, The Arabian Nights, The art of the potter, Victorian Art, William De Morgan
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Read it please, read all of it: Assad’s Cold Calculation: The Poison Gas War on the Syrian People
Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack: Western Intervention Draws Nearer Assad’s Cold Calculation: The Poison Gas War on the Syrian People By Hans Hoyng and Christoph Reuter Evidence clearly suggests that Syria’s president has deployed chemical weapons. The latest poison gas attack should set … 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
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Chemical weapons, Damascus, Images, Massacres, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The Ghouta of Damascus, The suffering of the Syrian people, Victims, Video
Tagged Alisar's notes and articles, Chemical attack, Children of Syria, destruction, Images, Images. Art, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, The Ghouta of Damascus, unspeakable acts, Victims, Video, violence
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Bearing witness: I present to you Syria in ruins, I invite you to witness annihilation and untold destruction
To an artist , the end of the world and the end of existence is signified by the destruction of form, the disintegration of structure, the made, the being. Why? Because it is the not to be, because it is the dissolution … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's notes and articles, Bearing witness, civilians, Damascus, Homs, Notes, photographs, Scud missiles, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Victims
Tagged annihilation, Bearing witness, Images, Syria, syrian regime, Victims
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The Road to Damascus الطريق الى دمشق
The Road to Damascus الطريق الى دمشق. The Road to Damascus: glass sculpture by Alisar Iram الطريق الى دمشق Posted on August 16, 2013by alisariram My love for ceramics and my experiments with glazes opened the way for me to the world of … Continue reading
Assad’s Speech in Damascus, 6 January, 1913
It was the worst speech Assad has ever made, unbelievable in its smugness, blindness, narcissism and self delusion. Assad staged a soap opera yesterday with him playing the Ghost of the Opera, as true to soaps as could be in … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Bashar Al-Assad, Damascus, Speech, Syria, Syrian regime
Tagged politics, Syria, syrian regime
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The Ghouta, farms and orchards, of Damascus
The Ghouta, farms and orchards, of Damascus.
The Ghouta, farms and orchards, of Damascus
This post which I am updating now, was published a few months ago. The situation in the Gouta has deteriorated gravely since then. Two million people used to live in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus Now only one million people are left to … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and aerticles, Alisar's poems, Annihilation, Damascus, Images, Nature, Poems, Syria, The Ghouta of Damascus
Tagged Alisar's art, destruction, Images. Art, Poem, Syria, syrian regime, violence
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