INDEX, GUIDE TO CONTENTS: ARTICLES IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC,documentations, damage to antiquities, images, poetic prose, meditations, reflections

Please note that although I started this blog in November, 2012, some of the entries in it specially those posted in November and December, 2012, date back to 2011, the first year of the Revolution.

Also not that this Guide is more or less chronological. starting with the earliest.

1. ARTICLES

a. Bearing Witness documentations

(The bearing witness articles record damages to the Syrian Cities and also bearing witness to massacres, crimes against humanity and human rights grave violations. They also contain a meticulous compilations of images)

Genocidal crimed against humanity

**The Massacre of Aqra

Posted on December 13, 2012

**Bearing witness:The children of Syria, the new born of Syria, the babies of Syria, the toddlers of Syria, I present them to you

Posted on February 28, 2013

**Bearing witness: I present to you the children of Syria

Posted on February 27, 2013

**Bearing witness to a child bearing witness: a child’s tale, a child’s testimony. Nayef is his name

Posted on February 26, 2013

**Bearing witness: the victims of the bombing in Aleppo on 19 February 2013 by the Syrian Regime. Rescuing the dead and the living from under the rubble

Posted on February 20, 2013

**Massacre in the Ansari neighborhood of Aleppo: bearing witness

Posted on February 5, 2013

**Bearing witness: the Bayda massacre, genocide or sectarian cleansing?

Posted on 6 May, 2013

**The massacre of Bayda in Banyas: As the darkness proclaims its victories, let us give it no dominion

Posted on May 11, 2013

**Message to the UN

Posted on May 9, 2013

**Chemical attack?what chemical attack? Sorry it is alleged and cannot be verified

Posted on August 24, 2013

Read it please, read all of it: Assad’s Cold Calculation: The Poison Gas War on the Syrian People

Posted on August 27, 2013 Article by:By Hans Hoyng and Christoph Reuter

****Testimony of an activist who escaped from a Syrian state security branch not my report

Posted on September 15, 2013

****Bearing witness:The children of Syria, the new born of Syria, the babies of Syria, the toddlers of Syria, I present them to you

Posted on September 20, 2013

**Starvation: I accuse you world, I accuse you Obama, I condemn you Putin: Look at the image of Syrian childhood turning into stone under the gaze of the Medusa of hunger***

Posted on October 18, 2013

**To the civilized world, the very civilized world الى العالم المتحضر…..المتحضر جدا

Posted on December 17, 2013

**Starvation and more starvation in Syria

Posted on January 9, 2014

**To the civilized world, the very civilized world الى العالم المتحضر…..المتحضر جدا

Posted on December 17, 2013

****Have you heard? They are dying of cold in Syria With images including 2 of my own

Posted on December 12, 2013

**Report into the credibility of certain evidence with regard to Torture and Execution of Persons Incarcerated by the current Syrian regime.

Posted onJanuary 21, 2014

Aleppo ( Old City)

**Bearing witness: I present to you Aleppo, a city that predates written history, the second oldest inhabited city in the world, as it was and as it has become after the deadly shadow of destruction and annihilation fell upon her: Part one***

Posted on March 27, 2013

**The library of the Great Omayyad Mosque in Aleppo, the Waqfiyya library goes up in flames

Posted on March 10, 2013

**Bearing witness: The Destruction of the great city of Aleppo, the second oldest city in the world, Part two.***

April 2013

**Bearing witness: The destruction of the Old City of Aleppo, the second oldest city in the world, Part three

Posted on April 14, 2013

**Bearing witness: the destruction of the Old city of Aleppo, the second oldest city in the world, Part three continued****

Posted on April 18, 2013

**Bearing witness: The Destruction of the great city of Aleppo, the second oldest city in the world, Part two.****

Posted on April 9, 2013

**Old Aleppo and its Great Mosque are but memories the butchers of cities left to us?

Posted on September 24, 2013

**Devastated Old Aleppo revisited in images: Civilization is diminished

Posted on November 8, 2013

HOMS

**Flash back: Homs revisited lest we forget how the Syrian regime destroyed Baba Amr, thus changing the course of the Revolution

Posted on January 23, 2013

**Bearing witness: The destruction of Homs, the third largest city in Syria. The mosque of Khalid Ibn Al Walid is under attack

Posted on July 19, 2013

**Bearing witness: the destruction of Homs. Under this rubble,melting stone and concrete, there lie the remains of human beings who once lived, struggled, dreamed and begat children.

Posted on July 30, 2013

**The people under the debris: we cannot take humanity out of a human tragedy,leaving only politics

Posted on July 31, 2013

**Bearing witness: The annihilation of Homs, its Old City,its cultural and religious sites, its history, heritage and earth: Introduction

Posted on August 3, 2013

**Is this World War 2? No it is Homs as Assad has re-designed it

Posted on May 13, 2014

b.Articles and notes in English

**Hubris (الغطرسة او جنون العظمة) and Nemesis ( الانتقام او العقاب) : on the character of Bashar Al-Assad **In the Beginning was the Arab Spring: Good Dreams That We had. Good Dreams That We Must Never Forget Posted in November, 2012 **Violence and Nonviolence Posted on November 25, 2012 **Sanctuary Posted on November 29, 2012 **Open letter to Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria

Posted on December 13, 2012

**The Night of Pain, The Night of Sorrow, this ae Nighte

Posted on December 14, 2012

** We love them all: Let us Love them all

Posted on December 17, 2012

**The Ghouta, farms and orchards, of Damascus

Posted on December 7, 2012

**The Invisible victims of Rape: victims we tend to forget

Posted on December 8, 2012

**The story of Da’il and its struggle for freedom

Posted on December 7, 2012

**Lest We Forget You will not kill the children

Posted on December 5, 2012

**Children of Syria Forgive Us For We Have Sinned comment on the video

**Death Will Not Find Me An Accomplice

Posted on December 2, 2012by alisariram

**We shall raise our voices loud and clear against the inhumanity of man to man

Posted on January 10, 2013

**Where are the lost children of Syria, why is the cruel world not looking for them, for the children who have gone missing?

Posted on January 29, 2013

**Virtual Everything

Posted on January 26, 2013

**Flash back: Homs revisited lest we forget how the Syrian regime destroyed Baba Amr, thus changing the course of the Revolution

Posted on January 23, 2012

**Syria, myself and Poetry سوريا، الشعر، وأنا

Posted on January 19, 2013

**It came to pass

Posted on January 16, 2013

**Assad’s Speech in Damascus, 6 January, 1913

Posted on January 7, 2013

**The colour red, red is the name of Syria now

Posted on February 18, 2013

**The Revolution, myself and multitasking

Posted on February 9, 2013

**As God is our witness

Posted on February 1, 2013

**The pillars of Hell

Posted on February 3, 2012

**In March of the year 2011, in peaceful green Daraa, the writings on the wall of a group of children sparked a Revolution

Posted on March 18, 2013

**On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Syrian Revolution dedicates this Friday to the Syrian Women of the Revolution

Posted on March 8, 2013

**Bearing witness: From France voices rise bearing witness

Posted on March 3, 2013

****The Syrian people are crying in the wilderness

Posted on April 23, 2013

**Spam it or unspam it? Spam that led me to question my very soul.

Posted on April 13, 2013

**How can they forget geopolitics and remember humanity?

Posted on May 7, 2013

**Where are the lost children of Syria, why is the cruel world not looking for them, for the children who have gone missing?

Posted on January 29, 2013

**The Revolution, the media and facebook

Posted on June 12, 2013

**Let us not debase ourselves or our Revolution دعونا لا نحقر ثورتنا ولا نحقر انفسنا

Posted on June 6, 2013 Arabic and English

**Lest we forget and lest the world forgets

Posted on July 2, 2013 (With images of the early days of the Revolution)

**The Ghouta, farms and orchards, of Damascus

Posted on July 8, 2013

**Help Syria now. Tomorrow it may be too late: open letter to the intellectuals and opinion makers in the West Yassin Al Haj Saleh

Posted on July 11, 2013

**The President and the man who would be King

Posted on August 27, 2013

**Inaction versus human values

Posted on August 30, 2013

**The Anti-war Campaigners would do better to shout :Hands off Syria, Assad

Posted on September 7, 2013

**Open Letter to President Obama and the reply to the letter from President Obama

Posted on September 8, 2013

**The Death of the young is upon me

Posted on September 5, 2013

**To strike or not to strike

Posted on September 4, 2013

**Syria for Sale: in Arabic and English

Posted on September 27, 2013

**Open Letter to President Obama and the reply to the letter from President Obama

Posted on September 8, 2013

**The Anti-war Campaigners would do better to shout: Hands off Syria, Assad!

Posted on September 14, 2013

**The story of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio and the picturesque craggy Deir Mar Mousa of the lovely frescoes where he lived and preached love *****

Posted on September 16, 2013

**Syria for Sale: in Arabic and English

Posted on September 27, 2013

**Broken Wings

Posted on October 5, 2013

**Farewell to Syria, for a while: في وداع سورية… مؤقتا Yassin Al Haj Saleh, translated by Alisar Iram

Posted on October 13, 2013

**Syria for Sale: سوريا للبيع

Posted on October 15, 2013

**What does it mean to Syria and to the world if Assad stays

Posted on November 10, 2013

**Broken Wings

Posted on October 5, 2013

**Farewell to Syria, for a while: في وداع سورية… مؤقتا By Yassin Al Haj Saleh

Posted on October 13, 2013

**Syria for Sale: سوريا للبيع

Posted on October 15, 2013

**The Syrian Holocaust and the Philippines Haiyan Typhoon

Posted on November 17, 2013

**Meditation on the destruction of Aleppo, Homs and the Syrian urban centres

Posted on November 22, 2013

***Have you heard? They are dying of cold in Syria? (2)

**القتل الرحيم (euthanasia)

Posted on December 15, 2013

**Women and the state of the Syrian Revolution at the present

Posted on December 29, 2013

**Hail the Coming ٌRevolution: we shall not give up

Posted on December 5, 2013

** The abduction of the members of the Violations Documentation Center in Syria (Douma)

Posted on December 10, 2013

**Words are, should be rebels

Posted on December 11, 2013

**The original sin, Assad and Medusa

Posted on January 9, 2014

**Protest is the Heroism that tyranny can crush but cannot wipe out from our collective memory

Posted on January 8, 2014

**The Syrian Revolution and Victorian London

Posted on January 12, 2014

**Starvation and more starvation in Syria

Posted on January 9, 2014

**Where to Syria of the Sorrows?***

Posted on January 25, 2014

**Addressed to Al-Qaeda affiliates, ISIS (Da’ish), Al Nusra Front and those in the Islamic Front who are emulating them

Posted on January 4, 2014

**Manual in images: How to destroy your cities and annihilate your people by Bashar Al Assad

Posted on February 5, 2014

****The library of the Great Omayyad Mosque in Aleppo, the Waqfiyya library goes up in flames

Posted on February 11, 2014

**Stephen Hawking on Syria

Posted on February 16, 2014

**There will always be a Syria and a Syrian Revolution

Posted on February 19, 2014

**Some thoughts on International Women’s Day, mainly in the context of the Syrian Revolution

Posted on March 8, 2014

**The Third Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution

Posted on March 13, 2014

**Myth and the Syrian Revolution: A tribute to the Syrian people on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Syrian Revolution *****

Posted on March 14, 2014

**In March of the year 2011, in peaceful green Daraa, the writings on the wall of a group of children sparked a Revolution****

Posted on March 18, 2014

**A painting soaked in the blood of the child who painted it and a school destroyed by a missile in a never ending story

Posted on May 1, 2014

**War rape: The forgotten pandemic sweeping Syria

Posted on June 11, 2014

**The rise of ISIS: The birth of Islamic colonialism

Posted on July 4, 2014

**The Rise of ISIS: extracts from articles and comments

Posted on July 11, 2014 The Why

MEDITATION ON ISIS (DA’ISH): THE BIRTH OF ISLAMIC COLONIALISM By Alisar Iram / in My Take /

c. Articles in Arabic

**هل ستصبح مهد الحضارات مقبرة الحضارات خصوصا الاسلامية؟

**لن تكون سوريا مملكة الموت

Posted on December 2, 2013

**The Syrian people are crying in the wilderness

Posted on April 23, 2013

**We shall raise our voices loud and clear against the inhumanity of man to man Arabic and English

January, 2013

** تأملات بشأن ابادة حلب و حمص و التجمعات المدنية السورية

Posted on December 8, 2013

**لأسطورة وثورة الشعب السوري Myth and the Syrian Revolution

Posted on May 5, 2014

2.DAMAGE TO HERITAGE, ANTIQUITIES AND CULTURAL LOSSES (articles and reports)

**Syrian Archeology in danger: Abu Kamal, Mari, Tel Al-Hariri Posted on November 29, 2012 **Syrian Archeology in danger: Mari, Tel Al-Hariri Posted on November 29, 2012 **Al-Raqqa, once the second capital of a great empire then a ceramic center which created wonders in clay

Posted on November 29, 2012

**The Ancient Kingdom of Ibla is in danger

Posted on December 2, 2012

**Protect Syrian Archaeology: Report detailing the condition of 12 Syrian museums which were pillaged and were exposed to shelling, explosions and bombardment

Posted on January 11, 2013

**Ugarit which gave the world its alphabet gave it too the oldest musical notation in the world

Posted on January 1, 2013

**Syrian Heritage: The museum of Ma ’art Al-Nou’man which holds the biggest collection of mosaics in the Middle East is in grave danger

Posted on March 25, 2013

**Sons and daughters of Syria, protect your own history: a plea

Posted on March 17, 2013

**Bearing witness: Syria’s history and heritage are being wantonly looted and criminally destroyed. Pay attention sleeping world for Syria is also part of your history and inheritance

Posted on March 16, 2013

**The library of the Great Omayyad Mosque in Aleppo, the Waqfiyya library goes up in flames

**Looting, vandalization, illegal excavations, army occupation, criminal shelling and bombing: the tragic fate of Syrian antiquities

Posted on April 29, 2013

**Destroying Syria’s past: Ibla

Posted on April 7, 2013

**Bearing witness: list of damage to archaeological sites, monuments and heritage in Syria

Posted on April 4, 2013

**Looted and smuggled Syrian antiquities: attempts and appeals to document and protect them

Posted on May 18, 2013

**Apamea: illegal excavation and looting results in the theft of hundreds of priceless mosaic pieces and floors

Posted on October 8, 2013

**The Great Omayyad Misque

By alisariram | Published September 24, 2013

**Ibla in danger: more damage, illegal excavations and vandalization of the site

Posted on November 13, 2013

**Krak des Chevaliers: images of the latest damage to a world heritage site and one of the greatest castles in Syria

Posted on March 29, 2014

**Damage to Syria’s cultural heritage (lists and maps); belated rescue attempts

Posted on June 6, 2014

**Funereal Sculptures Confiscated in Palmyra and an Exhibition calling for the protection of Syria’s cultural heritge

Posted on June 20, 2014

**Further damage to Syria’s cultural heritage: Illegal excavations at Ibla and more International efforts to safeguard Syria’s Heritage

Posted on June 18, 2014

**Damage to Syria’s cultural heritage (lists and maps); belated rescue attempts

Posted on June 6, 2014

**Ladies of Palmyra by Alisar Iram

Posted on June 25, 2014

See also damage to the monuments of Aleppo and Homs under Bearing Witness Documentations and Damage to Antiquities

3.DESTRUCTION AND DAMAGE TO SYRIAN CITIES

**The Syrian blitz revisited See also destruction to Aleppo and Homs under Bearing witness Documentations and

Posted on February 17, 2013

**Massacre in the Ansari neighborhood of Aleppo: bearing witness

Posted on February 5, 2013

4.IMAGES OF WAR, DESTRUCTION, SUFFERING AND CHILDREN

**Syria: let there be love

**A child clutching her necklace in a hospital

Posted on December 20, 2012

**The Slain American children, the slain Syrian children: they are the children of the world

Posted on December 15, 2012

**Deir Ezzor Burning

Posted on December 13, 2012

**The picture of today

Posted on December 12, 2012

**The nihilism of annihilation: destruction of man, habitat, history, the environment and means of survivval

Posted on December 11, 2012

**The Lost Children of Syria; children with no hope (2)

Posted on December 10, 2012

** The Lost Children of Syria; children with no hope

Posted on December 9, 2012

**https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/the-lost-children-of-syria-children-with-no-hope-2/

Posted on December 9, 2012

**Children of Syria: from the video

Posted on December 6, 2012

**Children of Syria Forgive Us For We Have Sinned

**Violation of human rights: prisoners are tortured and starved to death in the Syrian regime’s prisons

Posted on January 28, 2013

**The Dummy

Posted on January 27, 2013

**Syria’s children hide underground in caves to escape the fighting

Posted on February 26, 2013

**https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/syrias-tragedy-wins-prizes/

**Bearing witness: the victims of the bombing in Aleppo on 19 February 2013 by the Syrian Regime. Rescuing the dead and the living from under the rubble

Posted on February 20, 2013

**Images from Revolutionary Syria: Children and others

Posted on February 13, 2013

**Pictures from Syria: the children of Syria

Posted on February 7, 2013

**The Death River: bearing witness

Posted on February 5, 2013