The first step towards a peaceful democratic revolution in Syria might just be as easy as staying home for a day.
Indeed, what if the entire country had the flu on May 27, 2007, and no one managed to leave home to take part in the presidential referendum? Wouldn’t that be something? Wouldn’t that be a logical extension of earlier poplar boycott of the parliamentary elections? Continue reading “May 27 – The National Flu Day!”
So I was wrong. I admit. However moronic Bashar had been at one point, he has now very much proven to be his father’s son. Or, at least, as it might be easier for some of us to believe, “fate” seems to have conspired to make him so. Still, no matter how about we put it, the end result is the same: Bashar is now a full-fledged autocrat, worthy of our full-fledged contempt. Continue reading “The Monarch!”
الخطوة الأولى نحو ثورة سلمية وديمقراطية في سوريا قد لا تتطلّب منا أكثر من البقاء في البيت لمدة يوم واحد فقط.
بالفعل، ماذا لو أصيب البلد بأكمله بالإنفلونزا في 27 أيار 2007، ولم يتمكن أحد من مغادرة منزله للمشاركة في الاستفتاء الرئاسي؟ ألن يكون ذلك شيئاً؟ ألن يشكّل هذا الحدث امتداداً منطقياً لسابقة المقاطعة الشعبية للانتخابات التشريعية؟ هل يمكن أن يتخيل أحد طريقة أسهل وأقل مخاطرة للتعبير عن مشاعرنا الوطنية من الإصابة بالإنفلونزا في يوم معين؟ Continue reading “يوم الزكام الوطني في سورية”
Many of my colleagues tend to feel quite disheartened whenever a Syrian-American or a Syrian-European rapprochement seems to be looming, and with good cause. After all, their freedom and the quality of their lives, not to mention their very lives, seem to hang in the balance, their particular stands vis-à-vis US interventionism, the West in general and West-assisted efforts at democratization, notwithstanding. Continue reading “What if Bush met Bashar?”
