Category Archives: Notes
The massacre of Bayda in Banyas: As the darkness proclaims its victories, let us give it no dominion
The report of The Syrian Human Rights Watch documenting the massacre which took place in the coastal town of Banyas in Syria, covering the massacres of Bayda, and Ras Al-Nabe’. The report is in Arabic but as soon as I have it … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civilians, Human Rights, Massacres, Militias, Notes, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian regime, Video
Tagged children, civilians, executions, Human Rights, Massacres, Notes, Syria, Syrian army. militias, Syrian rgime, Victims, Videos, women
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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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Bearing witness to a child bearing witness: a child’s tale, a child’s testimony. Nayef is his name
I need help. I cannot bear witness on my own. If I feel that other people are sharing this child’s innocent dignified sorrow with me, I might be able to continue. He is a child yet he has been wrenched out of … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's notes and articles, Annihilation, Bearing witness, Children of Syria, Death, Destruction, Images, Notes, Scud missiles, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Video
Tagged Bearing witness, Children of Syria, Images, Scud missiles, Syria, syrian regime, unspeakable acts, violence
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Love creates a garden in the graveyard
I do not know why the picture below, posted to Facebook, caught my imagination. Perhaps I saw a message in it: while the terrible bombardment of Homs, the blitz of Homs, goes on, love recedes to the graveyards. Love so tenderly and … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's poems, Death, graveyard, Images, Love, Notes, Syria
Tagged Alisar's poems, Death, image, spirituality, Syria
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The colour red, red is the name of Syria now
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Annihilation, Death, Images, Notes, Syria
Tagged annihilation, image, Images. Art, Syria
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The Revolution, myself and multitasking
I have a problem to which I seem to have no solutions. I am lost, utterly irrevocably lost. When I wake up in the morning existential choices crowd my vision and banish simple normal life away. What to be or … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Notes, Syria, The Syrian Revolution
Tagged Revolution, Syria
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Massacre in the Ansari neighborhood of Aleppo: bearing witness
On the second of February 2013. the Syrian army bombed and shelled the Ansari neighborhood of Aleppo killing and injuring many defenseless civilians, among them women and children. Many refugees fleeing the bombings in other areas had taken refuge in this locality … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's notes and articles, civilians, Destruction of cities and habitats, Images, Notes, suffering, Syria, Syrian regime, Victims
Tagged Civillians, Images, Syria, syrian regime, Victims, violence
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As God is our witness
I was looking in my papers when I cam across the note below which I wrote in the early days of the Syrian Revolution. I wrote it in August 2011 when the Syrians marched under banners pleading for and repeating the call for a … Continue reading
Posted in First phase of the Syrian Revolution, Freedom, Notes, Syria, Syrian regime
Tagged Demonstrations, Revolution, Syria
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Flash back: Homs revisited lest we forget how the Syrian regime destroyed Baba Amr, thus changing the course of the Revolution
Please note that all images are images published by the media except a few which were posted to facebook. On my Introduction page, I had mentioned that I would be travelling back in time to various important landmarks in the Revolution in … Continue reading
Syria: let there be love
©Alisar Iram It is Christmas 2012. I feel like whispering, let there be light, let there be love. For although the powers of darkness possess the earth at times, we are creature of light, of our sun which sustains our … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and aerticles, Art, Images, Notes, Syria, Syrian people
Tagged Alisar's art, Human spirit, image, Images. Art, Syria
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