Tag Archives: Human spirit
We are the saddest people, we are the tragic people
I believe we have become the saddest people in the world. not only the saddest but the most tragic. We are the sad people We are the tragic people We carry our losses and stare Our losses carry us … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's poems, Alisar Iram: art of ruins, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Humanity, Humanity and human values, Syria, Syrian people, The world
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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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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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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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Bearing witness: The annihilation of Homs, its Old City,its cultural and religious sites, its history, heritage and earth: Introduction
Can life spring out of death, can history be reborn out of its ashes, can heritage be restored? Can a city reduced to debris and melted concrete rise again? Can archaeology exist without archaeology because it has either been looted, … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and articles, Annihilation, Archaeology, architecture, Bearing witness, Concrete, Destruction of cities and habitats, Homs, Humanity, photographs, Ruins, Syria, Syrian Archaeology and antiquities, Syrian army, Syrian regime
Tagged Alisar's notes and articles, Civilization, destruction, Human spirit, Images, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, syrian regime
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Syria needs a sea change into something rich and strange.
I need to dream. Last night, the full moon rose in golden glory and touched the sea with rare splendour. There was a strange beauty in the moonlit waves and the luminous night, a beauty that made me whisper: everything … Continue reading
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Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man
Let this rainbow be a covenant between man and man: That death will have no dominion That children will not be butchered That their limbs will not be torn from their bodies And be mangled That young girls will not … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's poems, Peace, Poetry, Reflections, Syria
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's poems, Human spirit, suffering, Syria
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Flash back: Homs revisited lest we forget how the Syrian regime destroyed Baba Amr, thus changing the course of the Revolution
Please note that all images are images published by the media except a few which were posted to facebook. On my Introduction page, I had mentioned that I would be travelling back in time to various important landmarks in the Revolution in … Continue reading
It came to pass
It came to pass that I, that we witnessed the Syrian people rise, lifting high their heads and walking in dignity. It came to pass that the people most despised and most deprived gave their blood freely and profusely so … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's art, Alisar's poems, Children, Freedom, Images, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Victims
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We shall raise our voices loud and clear against the inhumanity of man to man
A few days ago a discussion took place on the page of Yassin Al-Haj Saleh at Facebook. Y. Al-Haj Saleh, who had spent in the past 16 years in the prisons of the Syrian Regime, is a well known Syrian … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and aerticles, Article, Ceramics, Civilization, Images, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Third phase+ the present phase of the Syrian Revolution, Victims
Tagged Civilization, Human spirit, Images. Art, syrian government, Syrian heritage and antiquities, Victims, violence
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