Courrier international – 27 octobre 2014 Il existe bien des islamistes "modérés" qui s'opposent à l'organisation Etat islamique. Mais leur contestation reste modeste parce qu'intellectuellement, ils partagent la même idée de la religion que les extrémistes. Il y a des islamistes qui s’opposent à Daech [l’Etat islamique]. Il y a même des islamistes, y compris…
Bachar Al-Assad est le principal terroriste syrien
Le Monde - 30 septembre 2014 Au cours des premiers mois de la révolution syrienne en 2011, il était courant que les opposants reprochent au régime « l'option sécuritaire » face aux larges protestations pacifiques. Cette critique signifiait l'impossibilité d'aboutir à une solution féconde si « l'option politique » en était écartée. Une option qui…
Trois niveaux d’action sont nécessaires pour faire face à Daech
FemmeS pour la Démocratie - 7 septembre 2014 Il semble que les Etats unis et l’occident se préparent à faire face à Daech (Etat Islamique – EI) en Syrie, même s’il est fort probable que ces actions n’iront pas plus loin que des frappes aériennes, et peut-être quelques opérations de commandos. L’objectif probable des frappes serait…
Three levels for a successful confrontation of ISIS
Al-Jumhuriya, 1 September 2014 There seems to be American and Western plans in the making to fight ISIS in Syria, although it is unlikely to exceed air strikes and perhaps some limited commando operations. The purpose of such strikes is probably to put the emerging terrorist entity under pressure, busy it with pulling itself together…
Syria: The End of the Prophet-Intellectual
Al-Jumhuriya , 21 July 2014 A little over a generation ago, a huge national crisis erupted in Syria. It precipitated an unprecedented humanitarian plight, and forced one of the most progressive Arab countries onto a path of absolute decline. An indirect consequence of this has been the transformation of ‘The Syrian Arab Republic” into “Assad’s Syria”,…
Freedom, social change, and Syria
Al-Jumhuriya, 28 June 2014 Presented in World Press Photo’s «Reporting Change ‒ Stories from the Arab region» (Netherlands, 15 June) In Arabic, we differentiate between taghyeer (تغيير) and taghayur (تغيّر). Both words mean change. But taghyeer connotes planned action, executed unilaterally by a powerful elite, with a pre-known end result; whereas taghayur implies an open-…
Speech Yassin al-Haj Saleh at #ReportingChange
Samira Khalil
Douma4 (Originally published on Al-Quds Al-Arabi), 27 May 2014 - Translated by Murhaf Fares After four years of imprisonment (1987–1991), Samira, who comes from the Homs region, chose to live independently in Damascus. She worked in typesetting and formatting books, a job that merely earned her $100 per month at the time. It is not…
How the West reports the Syrian news
Free Word, 19 May 2014 Noted Syrian writer and former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh explains how the West reports the news in Syria - and imagines what coverage would emerge if Britain suffered an equivalent crisis Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a noted Syrian writer, public intellectual and former political prisoner born in al-Raqqa, Syria. He was…
The Hat of Invisibility
PULSE, 13 May 2014 Bostjan Videmsek interviews Yassin al-Haj Saleh, former political prisoner and one of Syria’s foremost intellectuals, on ‘civil war’, sectarianism, and the geo-political conspiracy theories which render the people of the Middle East invisible. Three years and three months into the conflict, Syria and its people have more or less been…