Category Archives: Humanity
We are the saddest people, we are the tragic people
I believe we have become the saddest people in the world. not only the saddest but the most tragic. We are the sad people We are the tragic people We carry our losses and stare Our losses carry us … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's poems, Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Syria, Syrian people, The world
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's poetry, Alisar Iram: articles, Human spirit, humanity, suffering, Syria, The Syrian people, The world, Tragedy
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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
Posted in Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Alisar's notes and articles, Children of Syria, Concrete rubble, Death, Destruction, Destruction of cities and habitats, Ethics, Freedom, Heroism, Human Rights, Humanity, Images, Massacres, Myth, Prometheus, Protest, Sisyphus, suffering, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Tyranny, Victims, Violence
Tagged Alisar Iram's articles, Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Civilization, Compassion, destruction, freedom, Heroism. Myth, Human spirit, humanity, Images, morality, Prometheus, Sisyphus, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The world, unspeakable acts, Victims, violence
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Myth and the Syrian Revolution: A tribute to the Syrian people on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Syrian Revolution
I have always been interested in myth for I see life mirrored in myth and myth mirrored in life. My first book was about myths and legends. A myth is an archetypal kind of story which manifests creatively the workings … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, civilians, Civilization, Common man and woman, Destruction, Freedom, genocide, Heroism, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Myth, Prometheus, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Sysiphus, The Third Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, The world
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles, Death, destruction, freedom, Genocide, Myth, Prometheus, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Sysiphus, The common man and the common woman, The Syrian people, The thirf anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, unspeakable acts
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Stephen Hawking on Syria
It matters, it matters a lot that one of the world’s greatest thinkers, a humanist at heart, is declaring what he thinks of the war in Syria and the failure of humanity to stop it. His point of view … Continue reading
Posted in Civilization, Ethics, Humanitarian aid, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Syria, Syrian Children, Syrian people, Univese
Tagged Children of Syria, Civilization, destruction, Ethical values, Ethics, humanity, Scientist, Stephen Hawking, suffering, Syria, The Syrian people, Universe
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Thoughts on love and the Syrian revolution
A Prayer Let love be greater than pain and the terror of suffering. let it hold pain in its arms and sing it to sleep peacefully. Let love be mightier than hate. Let love softly softly breathe the kiss … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Children of Syria, Compassion, Death, Destruction, Hell, Humanity, Images, Love, Meditation, Reflections, suffering, Syrian army, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, The Syrian Revolution, Thoughts, Victims
Tagged Alisar Iram: articles, Compassion, Human values, humanity, Invocation, Love, spirituality, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Victims
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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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Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee and for Syria
This morning my sorrow for Syria can only be assuaged by the great English poet and writer John Donne. I am choosing the following extracts from his Meditation: Alisar Iram
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Humanity, John Donne, Syria
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, humanity, John Donne, Mankind, Meditation, Syria
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What does it mean to Syria and to the world if Assad stays
1. Breaking the spirit of Syria and destroying its will. 2. Putting the seal of approval on the claim that all has been in vain, that all is lost: the dreams, the idealistic aspirations , the quest for emancipation and … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Bashar Al-Assad, Freedom, Human Rights, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Super powers, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, The Syrian Revolution, The world, Tyranny
Tagged Al-Qaida, Alisar Iram: articles, Alisar's art, Arab Spring, Bashar Al-Assad, Death, freedom, history, Human Rights, humanity, Morality and ethics, politics, suffering, Super powers, Syria, Syrian Revolution, The Syrian people, unspeakable acts, violence
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Out of the Chrysalis
Sometimes I close my eyes and try to recollect the person I was before the coming of pain, before my life became an open register of suffering, not my own suffering but the suffering of others, which inevitably took on … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Civilization, Crimes against humanity, Healing, Humanity, Images, Love, Reflections, Starvation, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, The suffering of the Syrian people, Uprooted people, Visionary poem
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Civilization, destruction, Grace, Human Rights, Human spirit, humanity, Love, Revolution, spirituality, Syria: a crime against humanity, Syrian people, The dispersion of the Syrian peopl, The failure of humanity to help the Syrian people, unspeakable acts, violence, Visionary writing
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