Mhyd Mohammad al Zhwry
An Artist and Calligrapher from Qosair
Mhyd is a Syrian fine artist from Qosair in the Homs countryside who loved the plastic arts and oil painting. With the advent of the Syrian revolution he turned to painting the banners for the demonstrations.
Ziad Majed
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Perhaps the best invention to come out of Facebook is the clicking on “like” to express admiration, appreciation, love, compassion, and acknowledgement or to show courtesy or all these combined. This small link, the “like”, can be used for a “page”, a person, a cause, a book or an event as well as when coming across a photo or following reading a comment or post, or even a comment on a comment or a post. It becomes addictive after getting used to it as one feels an urgent desire to have such a tool in hand, clicking it in secret and suddenly bringing it out if he/she likes something or someone or a voice or a speech or any scene whether he/she is walking down the street, at home, university, a café or any other place. Furthermore, one can imagine a society armed with the “like” links which can be clicked left, right and centre, and released in celebrations which convey “on the ground” a communal sense of unity in emotions and excitation.
A gift from Binish to our brothers in Al Hawla and all our Syrian people.
More than forty years of despotism, tyranny and injustice under the rule of the Assad-family regime could not strip the great Syrian people from their great history, civilization and creativity.
Today, the small town of Binnish, laying on a hill to the north of the city of Idlib, and which can be hardly seen on the global map, and which the world has hardly heard about its existence, reminds the whole world once again of the magnitude of the creativity and resilience of the Syrian people who contributed so much to human civilization. The town locals play a symbolic drama sketch commemorating the martyrs of the Hawla massacre, committed by the thugs of Assad regime.
Such a street play is a normal event in any country that respects human rights and the freedom of its people to express themselves and is a joyess occassion for townfolk. However this is Syria. The people are living under a vicious crackdown on all civil actions. The actors risk abduction, detention and torture. Even standing and watching the sketch could result in your detention.
However the will of the Syrian people is greater than any dictatorial regime can suppress. Thank you Syrian people for your creativity, your courage and ongoing contribution to humanity, under even the most horrific circumstances.
The artwork includes the names of all the massacres committed by the Assad regime: Hama, Hawla, Douma, Baba Amr, Jisr Al-Shoghour, Andan, Taftnaz, Deir Baalba, Khaldieh, Allatamna, Karam Al Zaitoun, AlSaa (Homs), Sarmeen, Qosair, Qamishli, Saidnaya, Qaboun, Jobar, Khan Sheikhoun, Kafr Awaed, Saraqeb, tal Refaat, Lattakia, and ….
Soundtrack:
* Original Music (Oriental, begining)
* Religious Peoms
* Verses from the Holy Quran praying for the martyrs.
* I walk with my head held high (“Marfoa al hama amshi”). A song by Arab Lebanese composer Marcel Khalife [a patriotic song].
The sketch was conducted and organized by the Binnish student collective and the Binnish Coordination Committee.
إيارا لي Iara Lee
15 مايو/ أيار 2012
هافينغتون بوست Huffington Post
يُعتبر الصراع الحالي في سوريا النسخة القبيحة من الانتفاضات العربية التي حدثت في الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا السنة الماضية. بدأت الانتفاضة الشعبية في سوريا سلمية مثلها مثل الانتفاضات في الدول المجاورة حيثُ كانت عبارة عن مظاهرات سلمية تُطالب بالإصلاح الديموقراطي، لكنها ما لبثت أن تطورت إلى عنف عَصَف في البلاد وأوصلها إلى حافة الحرب الأهلية الشاملة. السيطرة التي يحظى بها النظام السوري على شعبه ما زالت جديرة بالاعتبار، لذلك فإن آفاق هذه الحرب الأهلية ما زالت قاتمة ومحبطة، بالإضافة إلى طبيعتها التي ستكون طويلة، معقدّة ودموية، مع الأخذ بعين الاعتبار أن تلك الآثار التي ستسقط النظام أو متى ستسقطه أمر غير مؤكد بعد.
A caricature taken from a Venezuelan news website, the country that supports Al-Assad regime by providing it with the diesel needed for the Army’s tanks.
رسم كاريكاتوري منقول عن موقع إلكتروني في فنزويلا .. البلد الذي يقوم بدعم نظام الأسد عن طريق تزويده بالوقود اللازم لدبابات الجيش
المصدر
http://www.eluniversal.com/opinion/rayma/
El Universal
30 May 2012
ريتشارد جيزبيرت Richard Gizbert
برنامج Listening Post
الصراع على السلطة من خلال عدستين مختلفتين: عدسات كاميرات تلفاز النظام، وأعين النشطاء وكاميرات هواتفهم.
الدرس الأول الذي تعلمه النظام السوري من إستراتيجية الإعلام في تونس ومصر هو عدم السماح لوسائل الإعلام الرئيسية بدخول البلاد.
الدرس الثاني يكون في السيطرة على وسائل الإعلام الموجودة هناك أصلاً.
المصدر
كلير ريتشاردسون Clare Richardson – هوفينغتون بوست Hugginton Post
17/05/2012
مع استمرار الحملة الأمنية الدموية من قبل نظام بشار الأسد في سوريا ولأكثر من 15 شهراً، وارتفاع عدد القتلى إلى أكثر من 12 ألف شخص، تصر الولايات المتحدة على أن التدخل العسكري الدولي ضد هذا البلد لا يعتبر الحل الأفضل.
جاء ذلك على لسان سفيرة الولايات المتحدة لدى الأمم المتحدة سوزان رايس Susan Rice أمام مجموعة من الصحفيين في حفل أقامته بلومبرغ فيو Bloomberg View يوم الثلاثاء: “باختصار، إن فكرة إرسال قوات أمريكية أو من أي جهة أخرى هي فكرة سابقة لأوانها”. استمر في القراءة
Arab Intellect Azmi Bishara
1 May 2012
When a regime sends in tanks to shell its own people in their cities and residential neighbourhoods, the natural ‘instinct’ reaction expected from any ethical person is to stand with the people against the regime. In such a person’s opinion, the regime, whether it was democratic or not, becomes illegitimate if it finds it necessary to kill, repress, and torture people en mass in order to stay in power because the people no longer accept it or can no longer tolerate living under its rule.
There is a moral defect in a person that finds himself justifying killing as a mean to respond to a conspiracy or for the sake of a noble goal the regime is claiming to be working for forgetting the pain of an entire nation in the process. Such a person will lose his humanity and defame himself while he is ranting about conspiracies.
Bassel Shahade was martyred on the 28th of May 2012. He was honoured twice, by having lived a full life and then by dying a martyr.
Bassel Shahade, from Al-Qasa’a neighborhood in Damascus, a Fulbright scholar studying استمر في القراءة
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