Courrier international (As Safir) – 13 août 2012 J’ai vécu à Alep pendant sept ans environ, à deux périodes différentes, à dix-sept années d’intervalle. La première fois, c’était dans les années 1970, puis à nouveau à la fin du siècle dernier. La première Alep que j’ai connue était une ville qui subissait les effets de l’assaut…
Le régime se noiera dans le sang qu’il a versé
Courrier international (Al-Hayat) – 26 juillet 2012 A Damas, le sentiment qui prédomine est que le 18 juillet, jour de la mort des généraux de l’appareil sécuritaire [dont le beau-frère du président], constitue un moment charnière pour la révolution syrienne. La plupart des gens pensent qu’en réaction à la perte des principaux architectes des crimes du…
The time for negotiations is past: Yassin Haj Saleh on the Syrian Revolution
Ahram Online, 22 April 2012 Syrian thinker Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, 51, who is based in Syria, is directly connected to the revolutionary movement on the ground. He has long been known for his anti-Assad regime stand that ultimately led to him and members of his family spending a total of over 16 years in the…
Il ne suffit pas d’être une victime pour être juste
Courrier international (Al-Raee) – 19 avril 2012 L’hebdomadaire allemand Der Spiegel a diffusé une soi-disant enquête sur un prétendu tortionnaire originaire de Bab Amr, à Homs, et parti au Liban pour soins médicaux. Hussein de son nom, celui-ci affirme qu’il n’éprouve pas de difficultés à tuer de ses mains. C’est pour cela qu’on lui a…
Yassin al-Haj Saleh: “Armenians of Syria not in danger”
Mediamax, 22 February 2012 Yasin Al-Haj Saleh- is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world. In 1980 he spent time in prison in Syria for his membership in a communist party. He was arrested while he was studying medicine in Aleppo…
Le régime de Bachar El-Assad peut-il tomber bientôt ?
Courrier international (Jadaliyya) – 9 février 2012 Il n’y a plus aucun doute sur le fait que le régime syrien va vers sa chute. Le point de rupture qui marque l’effondrement total se rapproche. Le régime perd confiance dans son armée régulière qui ne parvient pas à maîtriser la dynamique de son délitement. Un nouvel…
On militarism, Violence, and Revolution
Free Syrian Translators (originally published in Alhayat newspaper), 29 January 2012 Without putting it in the context of 320 days of unrestrained violence that is practiced against it by the regime, there is no point in discussing the growing military dimension of the Syrian revolution nor the ongoing intellectual, political, and psychological transformations occurring in…
Components of the Syrian Revolution and its Politics
Free Syrian Translators (Originally published in Alhayat newspaper), 8 January 2012 The most prominent aspect of the Syrian revolution is the demonstration: groups between tens and hundreds of thousands of people go out to public spaces, trying to occupy certain areas for a while, while chanting slogans and holding banners condemning the Regime and calling…
The regime cannot be trusted in any way
The Times, 19 November 2011 Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a Syrian opposition activist and intellectual in his fifties, was imprisoned from 1980 to 1996 for his membership of a Communist pro-democracy group. He has been in hiding with his wife, Samira al Khalil, since March. “I’ve been in hiding since March 30, after Bashar Assad’s first…
On Lies, Fear and the Construction of Normality… and Rebellion
Free Syrian Translators (Originally published in Alhayat), 16 October 2011 It was clear that Sheikh Nawaf Ragheb Al Basheer was released, after two months of arrest, only after he was forced to appear on Syrian state television and say what the regime wanted to hear. It is also clear that the regime is not keen…