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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
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Annihilation, Baba Amr, Bearing witness, Homs, suffering, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian Children, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The suffering of the Syrian people
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Is this World War 2? No it is Homs as Assad has re-designed it
The great architect, the inimitable designer and planner of cities, the unique demolisher, the superb wrecker, Assad of Syria has created a masterpiece of ruins Hiroshima cannot vie with. This heap of broken images, this wasteland, this NOTHING, this primordial … Continue reading
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A painting soaked in the blood of the child who painted it and a school destroyed by a missile in a never ending story
Pictures from an exhibition In a school in Aleppo the teachers thought to offer the war children some relief and the chance to express their feelings about the war … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's notes and aerticles, Children of Syria, Ein Jalout School in Aleppo, Images, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian Children's art, Victims, Video
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The pottery of ancient Tell Halaf, in Syria, and my ceramics
The love affair between me and the ancient pottery of Tell Halaf started when a friend of mine, a fellow potter and a university lecturer lent me some of his books about ancient Mesopotamia and the history of archaeological excavations there. … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's pottery and ceramics, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Archaeology, Ceramics, Civilization, Cradle of Civilization, Images, Pottery, Starvation and malnutrition in Syria, Syria's cultural heritage, Syrian ceramics, Tell Halaf, Tell Halaf pottery, The Neolethic
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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
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The sacrificial Poppies: شقائق النعمان
جاءني صديق في المنام وطلب مني ان ارسم شقائق النعمان، جراحات تموز، لا اعرف ما يعني المنام ولكن هذه هي صور للشقائق ارجو ان تكون مقدمة للرسمِ A friend of mine appeared in my dream and asked me to draw … Continue reading
Krak des Chevaliers: images of the latest damage to a world heritage site and one of the greatest castles in Syria
My method for recording damage to cultural sites in Syria has always been, first, to give a synopsis of the history of the damaged monuments with pictures if available, then to give an account of the damage mostly in pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Archaeology, Civilization, Crusader Castle, Destruction, Images, Krak des Chevaliers, Syria, Syrian Archaeology and antiquities, Syrian Heritage, World Heritage Site
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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
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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
O no, I am not going to warn you and apologize for the painful disturbing pictures of starving children, for I wish you you to gaze at them and keep a place for them in your hearts and perhaps do something about it. … Continue reading
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