Category Archives: The suffering of the Syrian people
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
To the civilized world, the very civilized world الى العالم المتحضر…..المتحضر جدا
I followed on the TV screens the local attempts in Aleppo to pull out the civilians from under the debris and shattered walls of concrete which were their homes. I am not going to mention the more than one hundred … Continue reading
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
Broken Wings
When Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote his poetic novel Broken Wings, Syria and Lebanon were in the grip of a dream and latent aspirations for change, social, political and spiritual. The novel is a long anguished and climactic cry of a … Continue reading
My reflections: are the chemical weapons the heart of the matter or the fate of Syria and the Syrian people
A friend of mine living in the ruins of Aleppo said to me: “The truth is that they have betrayed us as human beings because they never really saw us as human beings, as human beings separate from politics and … 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
Inaction versus human values
I wrote the article below two days before the No vote in the British Parliament. The vote when it took place saddened me immensely, so I am posting my comments on the vote, hoping they will be read before the … Continue reading
The President and the man who would be King
Some thoughts and reflections on Syria and the world: The Price of International inaction They have let it brew and spawn and and fester till all hell was let loose. Let them face the concurrences now. Sometimes not to act … Continue reading
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