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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
Tagged Alisar's notes and articles, annihilation, Baba Amr, Bearing witness, destruction, Homs, syrian government, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, thewhy on-line newspaper, unspeakable acts, Victims, violence
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Have you heard? They are dying of cold in Syria? (2)
Have you heard, O have you heard?
Posted in Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Exposure to the elements, Freezing weather, Rfugees, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian refugee camps
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Bearing witness, Exposure to the cold, Extreme weather conditions, Human Rights, humanity, image, Refugee Camps, starvation, Syria, Syrian people
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Descent into the Syrian Hell: an illustrated imaginary journey into the hell of Syria with invocations from world literature
Forward This is an allegorical imaginative journey into the Syrian Hell, created for the Syrians by their rulers with the complicity of the world. The residents of this Hell are mainly the children of Syria; therefore it is a hell … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Alisar's poems, Art, Article, Images, Inferno, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Victims
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Alisar's poems, Bearing witness, destruction, Images, Images. Art, Poetry, Syria, syrian regime, unspeakable acts, Victims, violence
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Bearing witness: the Bayda massacre, genocide or sectarian cleansing?
Very graphic images. They were murdered and dumped like garbage. To all whom it may concern in our civilized world, please investigate…investigate…investigate. O, how the world looks the other way! If they were dogs and cats, the world would have been … Continue reading
Posted in Children, civilians, Crimes against humanity, Militias, Syria, Syrian army, Victims
Tagged Bearing witness, Death, Human Rights, Images, Syria, unspeakable acts, Victims, Video, violence
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Bearing witness: the destruction of the Old city of Aleppo, the second oldest city in the world, Part three continued
All 4 parts of the documentation of the destruction of Ancient Aleppo will be updated to include more damage to heritage as it occurs. I am going to continue with Part Three of my documentation of the damage inflicted upon the cultural … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's notes and articles, Arab Islamic art, Archaeology, architecture, Art, Civilization, Destruction of cities and habitats, photographs, Syria, Syrian Archaeology and antiquities, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, The Khans of Aleppo
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Bearing witness: The destruction of the Old City of Aleppo, the second oldest city in the world, Part three
All 4 parts of the documentation of the destruction of Ancient Aleppo will be updated to include more damage to heritage as it occurs. Coming to Part Three of my documentation of the destruction of the Old city of Aleppo and its … Continue reading
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
Related https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/bearing-witness-the-destruction-of-the-great-city-of-aleppo-part-two/ https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/bearing-witness-the-destruction-of-the-old-city-of-aleppo-the-second-oldest-city-in-the-world-part-three/ https://alisariram.wordpress.com/bearing-witness-the-destruction-of-the-old-city-of-aleppo-the-second-oldest-city-in-the-world-part-three-continued/ https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/deavastated-old-aleppo-revisited-in-images-civilization-is-diminished/ Please note that part three of my documentation of cultural heritage was posted in April, 2013, which means that damage since last April until the present day is awaiting documentation. Aleppo I have been delaying … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Archaeology, Art, Crimes against humanity, Destruction of cities and habitats, Great Omayyad Mosque, Images, Syria, Syrian Archaeology and antiquities, Syrian Heritage, Syrian regime
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Bearing witness, destruction, Images, Images. Art, syrian government, Syrian heritage and antiquities
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Bearing witness: From France voices rise bearing witness
I came across the following videos by accident. My search was sparked by the death of a great fighter for human rights, Stephane Hessel. The video contain extracts from other videos made by citizen journalists and photographers showing glimpses of the different stages of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Bearing witness, Freedom, Human Rights, Images, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, The Syrian Revolution, Video, Writers
Tagged Bearing witness, Human Rights, Revolution, Syria, syrian government, unspeakable acts, Videos
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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
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Bearing witness:The children of Syria, the new born of Syria, the babies of Syria, the toddlers of Syria, I present them to you
I have to continue bearing witness for the children of Syria, to continue addressing the conscience of the world and drawing attention to the little people of Syria. What Chance has a new born or a baby against the Scud missiles raining erratically on peaceful villages … Continue reading
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