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One Revolution is Not Enough

Can holding a rose be a radical form of protest?

Let’s Talk About Sectarianism, Baby

The hypocrisy of Arab sectarian behavior is not part of Arab history.

In Defense of Resistance: Hezbollah and the Syrian Intifada

Politics and its usual realism have always trumped the wonderful ideals driving resistance.

What Syria Deserves

I cannot remain silent anymore. I am writing this out of frustration from what I see, out of fear of what could happen, and most importantly out of hope for the potentialities in the distance.

To Young Americans of Syrian Origin

A little known poem penned by one of the world’s best selling poets, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, in the July 1926 issue of “Syrian World” (NYC’s first Arab American English newspaper):

Intifada Extended

One people, one tyranny with two faces

Egyptians In Solidarity With Tortured Syrian Cartoonist

The Syrian regime’s brutal and targeted beating of dissident political satirist Ali Ferzat in Damascus in August prompted cartoonists around the world to respond with drawings illustrating the pen’s prevailing power over the sword. In Egypt, the cartoonist community has taken their solidarity one step further by compiling their drawings in a traveling exhibit of their collective support.

RamadanMassacre

An enlightening and informed – thus rare – Facebook conversation on the events in Syria.

London Looting + Syrian Revolution =

This YouTube video, entitled “SYRIANAIRWAYS LONDON” brings together two current events quite vividly.

Homies in the struggle

Sometimes you just have to stick with the bros… especially in times of mutual battle with foes.

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