February 2012
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December 2011
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“When righteousness withers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
November 2011
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Syrian and powerless? Don’t know what to do? The best thing to be done right now is to unshed your ignorance.
Educate yourself to your country’s modern history. Read about the last fifty years, not through the visors put on you since your childhood, but with a fresh mind.
Read objectively, and find several sources. Read about prior human rights campaigns (there are many). Find out...
October 2011
6 posts
September 2011
8 posts
“Making love in the afternoon
stops the world. The clock
beside the bed reads a...”
– Camille-Yvette Welsch, “Afternoons” (Fishouse Poems, 2006) (via nouraabdul)
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Location, Location, Location by Gabriel Gadfly →
arabzy:
I could have kissed you under cherry blossoms, pale petals drifting down like the trees wanted to pretend they could be snowclouds.
I could have kissed you in the rain, drenched to our bones and not even caring that the skies opened up above us and tried to wash us out.
I could have kissed you in a clearing in the most secluded woods, with just the sound of wind rustling...
WHY SO SYRIA?: The End is the Beginning →
whysosyria:
I’ve made the decision to end this blog. I’ve been writing about my experience in Syria for almost two years now. There is still so much left to say and document but everything now seems to center around the revolution. It’s dangerous to write about what is happening now. I’m not a journalist but…
“When you see a beautiful woman in the street, don’t look at her hatefully...”
– Excerpt from a turkish newspaper, 1974. Found in the book “Istanbul” by Orhan Pamuk
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WHY SO SYRIA?: All Credit Cards Blocked in Syria →
whysosyria:
September 04, 2011
I’m back in Damascus after having spent all of Ramadan in Thailand (which was awesome). I return to a Syria more isolated than ever and sanctions keep getting piled on. The most evident of these sanctions, the one that affects everyday people, is the embargo on credit cards….
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August 2011
21 posts
Intelligence Squared: A Country in Conflict (Part... →
And here’s the funny part: The one state, even the binational, is much more easier to implement than the two state. But who wants Arabs as countrymen no?
Make a democratic one state happen for Palestine, and it will “return Palestine” faster than all the guns of the rocket happy self pompous fruitless militia.
The easiest way to make Palestinians not get what they want is not...
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“Let me tell you a story. Before MSF opened its hospital in Marere [in southern...”
– Hussein Sheikh Qassim, Medical Activities Manager in the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Marere, southern Somalia. He spoke by phone on August 17. Read his account here. (via doctorswithoutborders)
“نُشرت منذ أيام، على موقع الكتروني “مُمانع جداً”، مقالة رادحة ضد...”
– ياسين السويحة
Golan and the Army
I wince every time I hear someone saying the Syrian army hasn’t done enough to get the Golan back. It sounds popular, but it’s a grave mistake to make.
Anyone who believes so go read about the valley of tears. Go read how the Syrian army, with inferior equipment, coordination and tactical expertise, charged full speed ahead with everything they’ve got, in what is considered...
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Intelligence Squared: Democracy’s Weaknesses: Part... →
intelligence2:
In our final instalment on the weaknesses of democracy we look at the problem of partisanship. In countries with entrenched ethnic, religious or cultural divisions, there is a strong argument that democracy deepens these divides rather than bridging them. Iraq In the wake of the…
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“One morning, I was talking to a family of ten. I poured a full glass of water...”
– Brendan Bannon, photojournalist on assignment for Polaris Image, on his recent work at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Photos posted at the Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog. (via doctorswithoutborders)
Assume responsibility
If we’re going to live up entirely to our claim as the generation that set the world ablaze, we have to get over one of our biggest obstacles, assuming responsibility as an entire social unit.
We should learn to stop blaming all the problems on an immediate “them”. It’s the people’s collective that facilitates any kind of social environment that causes the...
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chasing sunsets & justice: organized violence &... →
chasingsunsetsandjustice:
I understand the massive amount of outrage being expressed at the rioters in London. I have a serious problem though, with the continued lack of such outrage at those behind most of the world’s violence: like those dropping bombs on civilians — or those developing, supplying, and using the most…
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chasing sunsets & justice: organized violence &... →
chasingsunsetsandjustice:
I understand the massive amount of outrage being expressed at the rioters in London. I have a serious problem though, with the continued lack of such outrage at those behind most of the world’s violence: like those dropping bombs on civilians — or those developing, supplying, and using the most…
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“We wanted to go to the Kenyan refugee camps, but we were not able to pay the...”
– A recently arrived mother of six, who walked for most of the 150 miles to reach the camp for displaced people in Jilib, Somalia. As a prolonged drought carries on, more and more families are leaving their homes and undertaking long, arduous journeys in hopes of finding relief and assistance. Learn...
“وضعوا على فمه السلاسل
ربطوا يديه بصخرة الموتى ،
و قالوا : أنت...”
– عن انسان- محمود درويش
“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your...”
– The Unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
Doctors Without Borders: Bahrain: Armed Raid On... →
doctorswithoutborders:
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 3, 2011 — The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today condemned an armed raid on its premises in Bahrain and the subsequent detention of one of its staff members. On July 28, armed security personnel violently…
Intelligence Squared: The World of Tomorrow →
intelligence2:
Predicting the future of technology can be a tricky business with many supposed experts making startlingly wrong judgements. Here are some howlers from people who really should have known better…
“We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” – Bill Gates
“Heavier-than-air flying…
July 2011
24 posts
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If tgat is granted,...”
– George Orwell (1984)
“Stalin’s son laid down his life for shit. But a death for shit is not a...”
– Milan Kundera
“3 بنات على موتور، اللي عم تسوق شخصيتا قوية كتير و قيادية، و في معا بنت صغيرة...”
– أحلام سورّية
“لا تخجلوا… ولترْفعوا عيونَكم إليّْ
لأنكم مُعلَّقونَ بجانبي… على...”
– أمل دنقل
