Category Archives: The Syrian Revolution
On the Third Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution: images
بمناسبة العيد الثالث للثورة السورية كالعنقاء ستنهض سوريا وتحمل الى العالم روحا من روحها Behold the tree of life Syria will rise again and the Syrian people will be free Variation on a theme by Bansky © Alisar Iram Please … Continue reading
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
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
Addressed to Al-Qaeda affiliates, ISIS (Da’ish), Al Nusra Front and those in the Islamic Front who are emulating them
All honour rests with the Syrian people in their struggle for freedom against the Syrian regime Listen to us very carefully, you who are rampaging in Syria, pretending to fight the regime, while in truth you are fighting the … Continue reading
Women and the state of the Syrian Revolution at the present
Revolutions are great mass movements carrying within themselves the promise to stop time for a while then perform a jump either to the future, or bend upon themselves to jump backwards and revert to a point in time where dichotomies … Continue reading
Hail the Coming ٌRevolution: we shall not give up
Under the weight and onslaught of the tremendous violations, epic violence and dehumanization, the Syrians are evolving. They are evolving into super ghouls on the one level and super humans, super ethical and humane beings, on another . Therefore while the suspicious, calculating … Continue reading
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
Letter to the intelligentsia, and opinion makers of the West by the Syrian writer Yassin Al Haj Saleh
The letter is published below in Arabic and French رسالة إلى المثقفين وقادة الرأي العام في الغرب ياسين الحاج صالح 28 حزيران 2013 الأصدقاء الأعزاء.. قبل نحو ثلاثة شهور قصدتُ منطقة الغوطة الشرقية «المحررة» تاركًا خلفي العاصمة دمشق التي بات … Continue reading
In March of the year 2011, in peaceful green Daraa, the writings on the wall of a group of children sparked a Revolution
The article below was the first article I wrote celebrating the dawning of the Syrian Revolution. I did not know then that my life was going to change out of recognition. All I felt was that a door suddenly opened … Continue reading
The Second Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution
ايتها السيدة في ربيعها الثاني تنحني الثورة لك وتعانق أرضك وأولادك يا سوريا On the second anniversary of the Revolution, on its second spring, I am uttering a prayer in the image above, for Syria to remain sovereign and integral. … Continue reading