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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
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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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Myth and the Syrian Revolution: A tribute to the Syrian people on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Syrian Revolution
I have always been interested in myth for I see life mirrored in myth and myth mirrored in life. My first book was about myths and legends. A myth is an archetypal kind of story which manifests creatively the workings … Continue reading
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Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles, Death, destruction, freedom, Genocide, Myth, Prometheus, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, Sysiphus, The common man and the common woman, The Syrian people, The thirf anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, unspeakable acts
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Some diverse thoughts and reflections inspired by the Syrian Revolution
Sensibilities The only thing that brute force and armed tyranny cannot defeat is the intellect and the soul. Even if they kill and destroy many of us the word will live, the thought will live, the creative energy of the Revolution will … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Freedom, Meditation, Reflections, Sensibilities, Syria, Syrian regime, The Syrian Revolution, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles, freedom, Geneva Conference, Injustice, Meditation, Reflections, Revolution, Sensibilities, spirituality, Syria, syrian regime, Thoughts
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The Syrian Revolution and Victorian London
It is strange how when we write about suffering and agony we seem to connect with all those who suffered the tyranny of fate and injustice now and in times past. Yesterday I wrote the short piece below and a … Continue reading
Protest is the Heroism that tyranny can crush but cannot wipe out from our collective memory
Protest is the Heroism that tyranny can crush, but cannot wipe out from our collective memory There came a time when the Syrian people could no longer say yes to tyranny and maintain silence, pretending that surrendering their will … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Alisar's notes and articles, Assad, Freedom, Humanity, International Jihadism, Islamists, Protest, Protest Movement, Qaeda, Syria, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
Tagged Activism, Al Qaeda, Alisar Iram: articles, Assad, freedom, humanity, International Jihadism, Islamists, Justice, Syria, syrian government, Syrian people, Syrian Protest Movement, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution
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Addressed to Al-Qaeda affiliates, ISIS (Da’ish), Al Nusra Front and those in the Islamic Front who are emulating them
All honour rests with the Syrian people in their struggle for freedom against the Syrian regime Listen to us very carefully, you who are rampaging in Syria, pretending to fight the regime, while in truth you are fighting the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Civilian struggle and activism, civilians, Da'ish, Islamists, Qaeda, Syria, The Syrian Revolution, Tyranny
Tagged Activism, Al Qaeda, Alisar Iram: articles, Civil struggle and activism, civilians, freedom, Human Rights, ISIS, Syria, Syrian Revolution, The Islamic Front, The Syrian people
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What does it mean to Syria and to the world if Assad stays
1. Breaking the spirit of Syria and destroying its will. 2. Putting the seal of approval on the claim that all has been in vain, that all is lost: the dreams, the idealistic aspirations , the quest for emancipation and … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Bashar Al-Assad, Freedom, Human Rights, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Super powers, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, The Syrian Revolution, The world, Tyranny
Tagged Al-Qaida, Alisar Iram: articles, Alisar's art, Arab Spring, Bashar Al-Assad, Death, freedom, history, Human Rights, humanity, Morality and ethics, politics, suffering, Super powers, Syria, Syrian Revolution, The Syrian people, unspeakable acts, violence
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Art: the tortured soul between slavery and ecstasy
Though be pain, suffering and baptism by fire, the blue rainbow is waiting and there will be freedom and emancipation. Let us imagine that breaking from our chains is but the dance of the tortured soul between slavery and ecstasy. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alisar's art, freedom, image, Images. Art, spirituality, suffering
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Help Syria now. Tomorrow it may be too late: open letter to the intellectuals and opinion makers in the West
This article by the dissident writer Yassin Al Haj Saleh was first published in Arabic, then was translated into French (see my last post but one), Spanish and English, appearing successively in several Arab newspapers, Le Monde, El Mundo and the Guardian. … Continue reading
Lest we forget and lest the world forgets: Peaceful protest and demonstrations
Watching on TV the Egyptians demonstrate peacefully in their hundred of thousands in order to take up their Revolution once more, I go back in my mind to the beginnings of the Syrian Revolution. The world, especially the world media … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Chanting and dancing, Civil activism, Demonstrations, Freedom, photographs, Ruins, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The first phase of the Revolution, Video
Tagged Alisar's notes and articles, Civil activism, Dancing and chanting, Demonstrations, destruction, freedom, history of syria, Images, peaceful protest, Syria, syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The first phase of the Revolution, unarmed civilians, Video, violence, w b yeats
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