Tag Archives: Civilization
The story of Father Paolo and the picturesque Deir Mar Mousa
DEIR MAR MOUSA – THE STORY OF FATHER PAOLO DALL’OGLIO AND THE PICTURESQUE DEIR MAR MOUSA By Alisar Iram By Alisar Iram / in My Take / tags Kidnapping, Religion, Revolution, Syria, Terrorism, War What has prompted me to revise this article and try to publish … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Appeal, Deir Mar Musa, Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, ISIS, Syria, Syria's cultural heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
Tagged Alisar Iram: articles, Christianity and Islam, Civilization, Deir Mar Mousa, Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, ISIS, kidnapping, Mar Mousa frescoes, Syria, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, terrorism, unlawful imprisonment
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MEDITATION ON THE DESTRUCTION OF ALEPPO, HOMS AND THE SYRIAN URBAN CENTRES
http://www.thewhy.com/meditation-destruction-aleppo-homs-syrian-urban-centres/ Published in The Why Can life spring out of death, can history be reborn out of its ashes, and can heritage be restored? Can a city reduced to debris and melted concrete rise again? Can archaeology exist without archaeology … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Alisar's notes and articles, Annihilation, Concrete, Concrete rubble, Destruction, Homs, Syria, Syria's cultural heritage, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
Tagged Aleppo, Alisar Iram: articles, Civilization, concrete. concrete debris. rebuilding, destruction, Homs, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, violence
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الأسطورة وثورة الشعب السوري Myth and the Syrian Revolution
See also the English version: https://alisariram.wordpress.com/myth-and-the-syrian-revolution-a-tribute-to-the-syrian-people/ كنت دائما مهتمة بالأسطورة و ذلك لأنني أرى فيها انعكاسا للحياة كما أرى في الحياة انعكاسا للاسطورة. وكان أول كتاب نشرلي يدور حول الأساطير و القصص الخرافية. الأسطورة هي نوع خارق او امثولي من القصص … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Alisar's notes and articles, Children of Syria, Concrete rubble, Death, Destruction, Destruction of cities and habitats, Ethics, Freedom, Heroism, Human Rights, Humanity, Images, Massacres, Myth, Prometheus, Protest, Sisyphus, suffering, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Tyranny, Victims, Violence
Tagged Alisar Iram's articles, Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Civilization, Compassion, destruction, freedom, Heroism. Myth, Human spirit, humanity, Images, morality, Prometheus, Sisyphus, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The world, unspeakable acts, Victims, violence
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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
Tagged Alisar's notes and articles, Civilization, Crusader Castle, destruction, Krak des Chevaliers, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, World heritage site
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There will always be a Syria and a Syrian Revolution
http://therepublicgs.net/2014/02/18/there-will-always-be-a-syria-and-a-syrian-revolution/ By Alisar Iram Mars the bringer of war A great deal of what is being written about the Syrian Revolution at this stage is descriptive and diagnostic. In fact the patient is on the verge of extinction because of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Annihilation, Civilian struggle and activism, Civilization, Freedom, French Revolution, FSA, Human Rights, Humanity and human values, ISIS, Islam, Islamic civilization, Islamists, Legacy of the Syrian Revolution, Morality, Qaeda, Regime's militias, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, therepublic, Tyranny, Violence
Tagged Al Qaeda affiliates, Alisar Iram: articles, Arab Islamic civilization, Civilization, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Human Rights, humanity, ISIS, Islamists, Legacy of the Syrian Revolution, Literature of enlightenment, Qaeda, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Universal ethics, unspeakable acts, violence
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Stephen Hawking on Syria
It matters, it matters a lot that one of the world’s greatest thinkers, a humanist at heart, is declaring what he thinks of the war in Syria and the failure of humanity to stop it. His point of view … Continue reading
Posted in Civilization, Ethics, Humanitarian aid, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Syria, Syrian Children, Syrian people, Univese
Tagged Children of Syria, Civilization, destruction, Ethical values, Ethics, humanity, Scientist, Stephen Hawking, suffering, Syria, The Syrian people, Universe
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Where to Syria of the Sorrows?
( I consider the following article as one of my most important articles on the Syrian Revolution) I started this article 2 weeks ago, before the convening of Geneva 2 in Switzerland on the 22nd of January. This fact does … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Annihilation, Civilian struggle and activism, civilians, Civilization, Culture, Destruction of cities and habitats, Enlightenment, French Revolution, International Jihadism, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic civilization, Islamists, Legacy of the Syrian Revolution, Literature of enlightenment, Massacres, Qaeda, Russia, Shiaa and Sunna, Starvation, Syria, Syrian army, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Torture, Tyranny, Violence
Tagged Alisar Iram: articles, annihilation, Arab Islamic civilization, Civilization, French Revolution, history, Human Rights, humanity, Industrial torture, ISIS, Islam, Islamic civilization, Islamists, Legacy of the Syrian Revolution, Literature of enlightenment, Qaeda, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Tyranny, unspeakable acts, violence
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تأملات بشأن ابادة حلب و حمص و التجمعات المدنية السورية
https://alisariram.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/meditation-on-the-destruction-of-aleppo-homs-and-the-syrian-urban-centres/ هل باستطاعة الحياة أن تبعث من جديد بعد الموت؟ هل يستطيع التاريخ أن يولد مرة اخرى ويتهض من رماده ؟ هل باستطاعةالتراث أن يعاد ترميمه ؟ هل لمدينة حولت إلى حطام و باطون مذاب أن تقوم من جديد؟ هل … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Annihilation, Atchitecture, Civilization, Concrete, Concrete rubble, Destruction, Destruction of cities and habitats, Ecology, Enviornment, Reflections, Ruins, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
Tagged Alisar Iram's articles, annihilation, Civilization, Concrete, Concrete rubble and debris, destruction, Ecology, Evils of building with concrete, Rebuilding, Syria, Syrian cities and towns, Syrian heritage and antiquities, syrian regime, violence
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Ibla in danger: more damage, illegal excavations and vandalization of the site
My sources for the following report are the the Syrian General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums (DGAMS) and Le patrimoine archéologique syrien en danger الآثار السورية في خطر Both sources list and record the damage caused to the site by new … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Ibla, Illegal excavations, Images, Looting and trafficking in antiquities, Syria, Syrian Archaeology and antiquities, Syrian Heritage
Tagged Alisar Iram: articles, Civilization, history, Ibla, Illegal excavations, Images, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, trafficking in antiquities
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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
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Civilization, Crimes against humanity, Healing, Humanity, Images, Love, Reflections, Starvation, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, The suffering of the Syrian people, Uprooted people, Visionary poem
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Civilization, destruction, Grace, Human Rights, Human spirit, humanity, Love, Revolution, spirituality, Syria: a crime against humanity, Syrian people, The dispersion of the Syrian peopl, The failure of humanity to help the Syrian people, unspeakable acts, violence, Visionary writing
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