Selections of Status Updates, Notes, Comments and Tweets made since 2009, a year which coincided with the gradual discovery by Arab and Middle Eastern activists of the potential of Facebook and Twitter as tools for social and political activism.
Don’t Get in Bed With Assad – NYTimes.com.
For more than 1,000 days, the kind of rational arguments and proposals reiterated here by Emile Hokayem have fallen on deaf ears. The Obama Administration will continue to be willfully blind and deaf in regard to the Genocide in #Syria for which their moral culpability is increasing by the hour and with each additional death.
While #Assad embarks on a wholesale destruction of our cultural heritage by bombing places like Old Damascus, Old Aleppo and Old Homs, Al-Qaeda adopts a more piecemeal approach, destroying our heritage one statue at a time, garnering more public attention and generating more publicity in the process, so that the likes of Fisk can use it to smear and defame the entire rebel movement.
Kufr Yuba Journal: A Jordanian Village, a School and the Syrian Refugee Crisis | Merissa Khurma.
Merissa Khurma on efforts by local Jordanians to help Syrian women and children. These efforts deserve our support, and we need more of them.
At this stage, #Assad won’t give a second thought to killing the Queen, not just a doctor, because he has created a mess in which no Western country would contemplate intervening. The moment Obama backed down on the strike, Syria was effectively given to the wolves.
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 