In 2001, and shortly after the outbreak of the Palestinian Aqsa Intifadah, the streets of Damascus got filled with real spontaneous demonstrations organized by student groups, artists and lawyers and professionals from all stripes announcing their support to the Palestinian people and their just demands. Continue reading “A Jolly Freak Show!”
Month: July 2006
Syria’s serial exporters of instability
July 08, 2006 12:00 AM / Ammar Abdulhamid
What do the Assads of Syria think they are doing? Hardly a day goes by in the country without another activist being arrested, banned from traveling abroad, or sentenced to a long prison term. Occasionally, particularly in the case of alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood, they are handed down a symbolic death sentence – symbolic because these are almost immediately commuted to imprisonment. Continue reading “Syria’s serial exporters of instability”
The Struggle for Syria’s Body & Soul!
According to Shaaban Abbod of An-Nahar, thestrugglebetween Islamists and secularists in Syria is intensifying. The recent sign in this regard can be seen in the open Letter to the President sent by Syria’s foremost Islamic scholars and Imams proclaiming the existence of an official conspiracy against Islamic education in the country. The leaders of this conspiracy seem to the secular forces in the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Religious Endowment (?), where the new Minister has just issued an edict against admitting students into religious schools at the preparatory level. Continue reading “The Struggle for Syria’s Body & Soul!”
الحرية والإنسانية
5 تموز، 2006 / مدونة “أقوال وأفكار”
كل من ثمّن الحرية لذاتها يؤمن في قرارة نفسه بأن حرية الخيار، وألاّ يقوم أحد بالاختيار بالنيابة عنا، هي عنصر أساسي فيما يجعل الإنسان إنساناً؟ إسحاق برلين، “مفهومان للحرية” 1959 Continue reading “الحرية والإنسانية”
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