Category: archives

“Enab Baladi is a unique record of the Syrian people speaking without fear”

By Terry Burke, as part of a decentralized effort to challenge the anglophone institutional left.

Hummus For Thought is pleased to announce the release of “Enab Baladi: Citizen Chronicles of the Syrian Uprising”, available as a free PDF.

Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and murder at the hands of the Saudi regime has set precedents in several ways.

“Reading about Sarajevo is to feel less alone. It’s to tell oneself that others before us went through the same challenges. In another country. Another context.”

Syrian refugees in Lebanon fear reprisals by the Assad regime in the form of homelessness, forced conscription, torture, or worse.

A delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headed on Monday for Syria to check on the resistance axis efforts to pave the “road to Palestine.”

Rohini wished to understand how something which is seemingly so ‘pro-human’ (anti-imperialism) could be used to justify that which is inherently ‘anti-human’ (state oppression).

Hayat Ghunaim, from Gaza, wrote this in memory of Razan Al-Najjar, the 21 year old medic and volunteer who was murdered by the IDF while helping evacuate wounded protesters.

Stories, Resources, Numbers

The Syrian regime and its Russian ally have taken over Ghouta. Here are some of Ghouta’s stories before its fall.

“We are not less that the workers of the Paris Commune… They lasted 70 days and we are still here since a year and a half.”

“What terrifies our elders, anxious to maintain their grip on the only Jewish identity they know, is precisely that, in saying ‘no!’ to Zionism, we are saying ‘yes!’ to Jewishness.”