It has been almost a year. In my last blog I expressed feelings of ecstasy for the glorious revolution in Tunisia. Yes, it was a revolution of glory, since the collective feelings and mind of the Tunisian people mass got united in one national voice for refusing common injustice that seemed irrecoverable, and demanding national demands of pride and justice. This is what I define glory, otherwise it can be a mere irresponsible riot.
Then, comes the one historical event that kept me silent of shock for all these months: the Arab Spring reached Syria in last March. My first reaction was disbelief this could be something serious. I simply couldn’t imagine it. Now to give you an idea of my political background, let me say I was no politics-fan(my daily life mainly revolves around IT and social community news and activities). But I had no emotional link with the Assad regime in Syria. It was merely a fear relationship, plus some regular idle negative feelings (the kind that all black-comedy Syrian TV shows describes). And reasons for that are beyond the scope of this short blog, but to give you a quick idea, this is related to news of the horrible Hama massacre and the Tadmur detention (with unimaginable stories of torture) , corruption, monopoly, despotism, and the never-realized reform promises.
At beginning, I was perplexed! Although I know that Syrian people have every single reason to protest, but I wanted to make sure that this is not some irresponsible riot!. Not much time passed, till this proved to be another legendary popular uprising for glory: national pride, justice, and legitimate national (and humanitarian) demands.
During these 10 months, I experienced all sort of mixed feelings of mixed pain, agony, anger, fury, disgust, shock, and hope.
So many things happened and is happening. I want to salute my fellow Syrian heroes who showed great spirit, creativity, and determination to participate in and document this historical period, whether on ground, Facebook, Twitter, Web pages, and YouTube.
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Back to blogging: My heart is with you Syria
Illustration by Al Zahra Sulaiman
It has been almost a year. In my last blog I expressed feelings of ecstasy for the glorious revolution in Tunisia. Yes, it was a revolution of glory, since the collective feelings and mind of the Tunisian people mass got united in one national voice for refusing common injustice that seemed irrecoverable, and demanding national demands of pride and justice. This is what I define glory, otherwise it can be a mere irresponsible riot.
Then, comes the one historical event that kept me silent of shock for all these months: the Arab Spring reached Syria in last March. My first reaction was disbelief this could be something serious. I simply couldn’t imagine it. Now to give you an idea of my political background, let me say I was no politics-fan(my daily life mainly revolves around IT and social community news and activities). But I had no emotional link with the Assad regime in Syria. It was merely a fear relationship, plus some regular idle negative feelings (the kind that all black-comedy Syrian TV shows describes). And reasons for that are beyond the scope of this short blog, but to give you a quick idea, this is related to news of the horrible Hama massacre and the Tadmur detention (with unimaginable stories of torture) , corruption, monopoly, despotism, and the never-realized reform promises.
At beginning, I was perplexed! Although I know that Syrian people have every single reason to protest, but I wanted to make sure that this is not some irresponsible riot!. Not much time passed, till this proved to be another legendary popular uprising for glory: national pride, justice, and legitimate national (and humanitarian) demands.
During these 10 months, I experienced all sort of mixed feelings of mixed pain, agony, anger, fury, disgust, shock, and hope.
So many things happened and is happening. I want to salute my fellow Syrian heroes who showed great spirit, creativity, and determination to participate in and document this historical period, whether on ground, Facebook, Twitter, Web pages, and YouTube.
I am so proud to belong to this great nation.
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 7:31 pm and is filed under free2comment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.