- To all those who expressed doubts about the possibility of a positive response from the Baath regime: indeed I am not that naïve, and I am quite cynical about the possibility of having the proposed plan adopted by the regime. But I do have to hope, don’t I? After all, the alternative to this seems to be isolation, sanctions and, eventually, invasion. Continue reading “Responses and Clarifications!”
Category: Heretical Musings
The Heretic’s Son!
My son, Mouhannad (14), is afraid of the 9th Grade exams: he’s afraid he won’t pass. Yet, his father is too busy courting “death by media,” among other means, to give him the attention he deserves.
Mouhannad is, in many ways, a typical product of the Syrian school system, a system based mainly on rote memorization with minimal interest in developing analytical skills. As a result, Mouhannad knows all the rules of Arabic and English grammar and all the rules of math, but, and no matter how many private tutors we assign, he does not know how to apply them. He simply does not know how to analyze. Continue reading “The Heretic’s Son!”
Death By Media
My death-wish seems to be rearing its ugly little head again. I am simply giving too many interviews and statements to journalists who seem to be flocking in droves to my doorstep these days. One told me that the word is out that I am simply committing “death by media.” I asked him what that meant, he said that my outrageous statements on developments in Syria, and my frank opinions with regard to its leaders are simply going to get me in major trouble soon. Continue reading “Death By Media”
Mediocrity Galore!
There is no measuring the level of disgust I feel right now. Nor the level of angst. Nor the level of sheer terror. 80s flashbacks notwithstanding, it is the mediocrity of it all that is at the heart of it all, at the heart of the way I feel.
2:00 pm. Send in the clowns. Continue reading “Mediocrity Galore!”
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