Tag Archives: Video
Broken Wings
When Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote his poetic novel Broken Wings, Syria and Lebanon were in the grip of a dream and latent aspirations for change, social, political and spiritual. The novel is a long anguished and climactic cry of a … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Children of Syria, Gibran Khalil Gibran, suffering, Syria, Syrian people, The suffering of the Syrian people
Tagged Alisar's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Broken Wings, Children of Syria, Gibran Khalil Gibran, Syria, Syrian people, Video
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Chemical attack?what chemical attack? Sorry it is alleged and cannot be verified
Nothing but a gratification of the appetites and wishful, distorted, speculative,futile thinking: this sums up my opinion of the International Media in its reaction to the chemical attack in the Ghouta of Damascus which took place on 21 August and … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar's notes and articles, Chemical weapons, Damascus, Images, Massacres, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Syrian Revolution, The Ghouta of Damascus, The suffering of the Syrian people, Victims, Video
Tagged Alisar's notes and articles, Chemical attack, Children of Syria, destruction, Images, Images. Art, Syria, Syrian people, syrian regime, The Ghouta of Damascus, unspeakable acts, Victims, Video, violence
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Are they bombing cities or are they bombing our souls: the heroism of annihilating your citizens with Scud missiles
Cities of smoke Smouldering burning Blazing In a configuration Of stone concrete steel And human flesh Cities of rubble debris wreckage Of rubbish and broken homes Pasted with remains With the white bones of children Cities crackling baking … 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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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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Destroying Syria’s past: Ibla
Below is a report by The New York Times on the destruction of Syria’s heritage. http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/04/06/world/middleeast/100000002157622/destroying-syrias-past.html See below a translation of the New York Times article which accompanies the video by: Protect Syrian Archaeology حماية الآثار السورية’s نيويورك … Continue reading
The library of the Great Omayyad Mosque in Aleppo, the Waqfiyya library goes up in flames
Bearing witness: Alisar Iram The loss of a great library is like an amputation performed on world knowledge and cognition…Alisar I am going to update this posting then reblog it in view of fresh material I was able to collect on the … Continue reading
Posted in Aleppo, Aleppo Mosques and madrasas, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Arab Islamic art, Arab Islamic Civilization, architecture, Article, Great Omayyad Mosque, Koranic calligraphy, Koranic manuscripts, Library, Syria, Syrian Heritage, The Great Omayyad Mosque of Aleppo, Waqfiyya Library
Tagged Aleppo, Alisar Iram: articles, Great Mosque of Aleppo, Images, Islamic theology, Koranic Callugraphy, Koranic manuscripts, Rare books, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, Video, Waqfiyya Library
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Syria’s children hide underground in caves to escape the fighting
Posted in Caves, Children, Children of Syria, Images, Rfugees, Syria, Video
Tagged Children of Syria, Images. Art, Video
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Syria’s tragedy wins prizes
I am not being critical or disappointing because these gifted photographers risked their lives in order to shoot these photographs and bring them to the attention of the world. I am only recording what I feel on the subject. Artists and photographers … Continue reading
The Syrian blitz revisited
Video by Alisar Iram, August 2012 The images below are chosen from recent examples of annihilation. Posted by an activist and edited, blitz 2
Posted in Annihilation, Art, Destruction, Images, Music, Poems, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, The Syrian Revolution, Victims
Tagged destruction, Syria, syrian regime, unspeakable acts, Victims, Video, violence
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