While the world is living to the rhythms of life, The Syrians pursue their lives to the rhythms of the shells that destroy homes, and claims lives.
أرشيف التصنيف: From Arabic
The State of Barbarism
Ziad Majed
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
In 1986, a year after his abduction and experiencing the barbarism he has discussed and analyzed in his writings on Syria, Michel Seurat died in the southern suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital which was devastated by civil war and the grip of the Syrian Intelligence services.
Today, we remember his texts that have been compiled in the second edition of his book “The State of Barbarism”, with their ingenuity and pertinence, even though it has been three decades since they were first published.
In the context of the ongoing Syrian Revolution, we can contemplate two issues he addressed in his texts: the “Asabiyya” and “The conflict between Society and State”.
Elias Khury, un caffè con Padre Paolo
25/6/2012
Proponiamo di seguito un articolo di Elias Khury sul suo incontro a Beirut con Padre Paolo dall’Oglio nella nostra traduzione.
L’ho incontrato a Beirut. È venuto con l’amica Giselle Khury al caffè “Chase” del quartiere di Ashrafiyye, o il monticello. E dal primo momento ho sentito di essere di fronte all’esperienza della teologia della liberazione che si materializza nella Siria e nel mondo arabo.
Padre Paolo mi ha ricordato i volti dei sacerdoti dai quali ho imparato che Gesù di Nazareth è straniero con gli stranieri, povero con i poveri, viaggiatore sulla terra in cerca di giustizia e libertà.
How the Assad Regime Destroyed Syria
Written by: Dr. Khaled Al-Huroob
Published on 11th June 2012
The chain of historic disasters that the Assad’s (the father) regime brought upon Syria and the Arabs in the past decades are being crowned by the catastrophic additions of his son’s regime. These disasters will place him on the wrong side of history.
The regime’s mouthpieces and means of propaganda have been boasting and clapping for its “defiance” and “resistance” (to Israel and the super powers in the world). They keep repeating dumb slogans and tailoring all the crimes and disasters that were committed by the regime to accuse the Syrian people and its revolutionaries. Where the regime creates the disasters and fabricates the financial, political and ethical crimes and accuses the opposition of creating them through starting the vulgar whining and weeping claiming innocence and virtue. This is not too smart on the regime’s part, it is in fact a total ethical degeneration repeatedly cloned and reproduced in a manner more repulsive than anything else. Having said that, we have to admit that the regime proved superiority in the ability to continuously manipulate many voices that are still deceived by the tales of “the regime’s resistance” and “the strategic plan” aiming at toppling it.
Rumor Has It: Christians and Sectarianism in “Fides” Declarations
Nebrass Shahid
04/02/2012
Rumors
His Exc. Mgr. Mario Zenari, the Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, in response to the declarations issued by Agenzia Fides, the official Vatican news agency (See Fides 21/03/2012), and in indirect renunciation of the earlier claims of sister Agnes-Mariam of the Cross and others, confirmed to Adnkronos International (AKI), an Italian independent news agency, that the city of Homs is not subject to ethnic cleansing. In this context, the Nuncio exalted the efforts of whoever stayed in Homs from the people of the Christian neighborhoods to aid the arriving displaced Homsi Syrians from other neighborhoods. As for the Faruq Brigade, in their proclamation released on 22/03/2012, they denied Fides’s accusations that the Brigade is correlated to al-Qaeda, and that it is responsible for the displacement of 90 percent of the Christians of Homs. استمر في القراءة
Only in Homs, the Mothers Shroud their Daughters
In memory of the martyr Rama Barghouth
When I entered the Martyrs’ graveyard in Tal Al-Nasr with her sister, only two men have volunteered to come along and help us bury our young and beloved Rama Barghouth.
Rama! See her off, her brother, and…her father could not…
Lay his eyes at the shining smile resting upon her face…her father could not…
As she bids farewell to this Earthly world… while her bleeding stop not…
Whisper, words of a pride into her ear,… her father could not…
(rest in peace my child, and heaven be your home, a gift from God)…
Cold Mountain
The Damascus Bureau
True news and stories from Syria
Razan Zaitouneh, 13 June 2012
Long months of work, disagreements, conciliations, ill feeling, laughing, receiving news, exchanging invitations to our favorite, popular meals, and promises of celebration in the freedom square; yet I neither know his name nor his features.
I imagine him to be in his early twenties: nice and intimate; he is quick-tempered and quick to smile as well. He is too inquisitive to the extent that each time I had to beg him “son, please stop nagging”.
Part 2: 10 Minutes in Jouret Al-Shayyah in the city of Homs
Video — Part 2: 10 Minutes in Jouret Al-Shayyah in the city of Homs, this is how it became now. استمر في القراءة
Interview with Bassel Shahade about Freedom Days’ Activity: Currency of Freedom
The voices of the non-violent and civil activism in Syria are not heard among the sounds of guns and whizzing of bullets, but a group of young activists still believe in the possibility of toppling the regime through non-violence resistance.
Activists printed pamphlets calling for civil disobedience against the Syrian regime on money-like papers, and threw them in the streets of several cities, including Damascus and Aleppo.
Freedom Days is an alliance of non-violent and civil activism groups in Syria.
Source: http://youtu.be/pDkj2bUv3ss
Syria’s Youth
Michel Kilo
Originally published on 23rd May 2012
Nowadays, Syria’s youth are facing unparalleled circumstances of a tragic and dangerous nature. Situations that were rarely encountered by the youth of any other country, be it Arab or foreign. It is enough to be a Syrian youth today to be a suspect, and in turn be chased or wanted, targeted for arrest and torture till death, or be shot at. What is interesting though, is that the party that is opposing these youth, just because they are the youth, subjecting them to ruthless suppression, is a regime that has long been boasting the youth of it’s President, that he would turn a new page in the history of the nation of Syria and its people, and that he would renew both society and state, all with his youthful mentality.
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