Category Archives: Reflections
Poems and thoughts in times of war
Compiled between January and April The poetBlessed are the words for the words are makersBlessed is the music for the music is the soul of GodBlessed are our songs, our poems,Our sighs, our cries, our murmurs, Our lullabies, our prayers, our … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's poems, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Images, Love, Meditation, Poetry, Reflections, Spirituality, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Thoughts
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's poetry, Alisar's notes and articles, Human spirit, humanity, Love, Meditation, Poems, Reflections, suffering, Syria, The Syrian people, Thoughts
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Some thoughts on International Women’s Day, mainly in the context of the Syrian Revolution
International Women’s day “also called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year.[2] In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political, and social … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Emancipation of Women, Images, International Women's Day, Prisons and prisoners, Razan Zaitounah, Reflections, Syria, Syrian Revolution, Women, Women's Human Rights
Tagged Alisar Iram: articles, Liberation of women, Prisoners of Conscience, Revolution, Syria, syrian regime, The changing roles of women, The human rights of women
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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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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
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles, freedom, Geneva Conference, Injustice, Meditation, Reflections, Revolution, Sensibilities, spirituality, Syria, syrian regime, Thoughts
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Words are, should be rebels
In the beginning was the word. Kun fayakoun, be and it was. READ the word for the word is power, creation and life. Words can resurrect, grace, sing, paint and call with the voice of the sea, with the voice … Continue reading
تأملات بشأن ابادة حلب و حمص و التجمعات المدنية السورية
https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/meditation-on-the-destruction-of-aleppo-homs-and-the-syrian-urban-centres/ هل باستطاعة الحياة أن تبعث من جديد بعد الموت؟ هل يستطيع التاريخ أن يولد مرة اخرى ويتهض من رماده ؟ هل باستطاعةالتراث أن يعاد ترميمه ؟ هل لمدينة حولت إلى حطام و باطون مذاب أن تقوم من جديد؟ هل … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Annihilation, Atchitecture, Civilization, Concrete, Concrete rubble, Destruction, Destruction of cities and habitats, Ecology, Enviornment, Reflections, Ruins, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
Tagged Alisar Iram's articles, annihilation, Civilization, Concrete, Concrete rubble and debris, destruction, Ecology, Evils of building with concrete, Rebuilding, Syria, Syrian cities and towns, Syrian heritage and antiquities, syrian regime, 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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Syria needs a sea change into something rich and strange.
I need to dream. Last night, the full moon rose in golden glory and touched the sea with rare splendour. There was a strange beauty in the moonlit waves and the luminous night, a beauty that made me whisper: everything … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Healing, Images, Peace, Reflections, Syria, Uncategorized
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Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man
Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man: That death will have no dominion That children will not be butchered That their limbs will not be torn from their bodies And be mangled That young girls will not … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's poems, Peace, Poetry, Reflections, Syria
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's poems, Human spirit, suffering, Syria
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Spam it or unspam it? Spam that led me to question my very soul.
Today, for the first time, I noticed that there were comments on my posts marked as spam. I became curious so I decided to look at that which was classified as spam. To my great astonishment, I found out that some of … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Poetry, Reflections, Syria, Syrian people
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