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ecruited from as far afield as afghanistan and dragged all the way to syria to fight and die for some guy they don t even know seven years seven years and not a peep out of these people well that s not entirely true back when isis was the only thing being mentioned in the news there were prayers for syria then and tears for the old dead cities in the desert and the empty temples that isis decided to tear down there were tears for civilization for coexistence but today there s no mention of coexistence there s no mention of the green buses that are taking entire syrian families and dumping them up north in idlib in a place they probably had never been to in their entire lives uprooting them from the land that had nurtured them from the places where their ancestors are buried to live as strangers and refugees in somewhere that might as well be another planet for them good luck getting a visa or finding a job or renting a decent place for you and your family to live good luck get on that green bus and leave your home under the watchful gaze of a scruffy looking grunt in a uniform who flicks you the bird as you re bused away from your entire life because you happened to live in an area that the syrian government decided was enemy territory good luck and fuck you very much you re not the kind of syrian that elicits sympathy from these arab patriots sitting smugly in their living rooms praying for syria no prayers and tears for you unless you get killed by an american bomb accidentally then we d get the sighs and these condescending patriots would lament the state of the arab world and the unjustness of american tyranny and they d say their prayers for beautiful syria and remember the lovely summer holidays they spent there once email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by maysaloon at 12 02 am 0 comments labels ramblings syria wednesday september 06 2017 memories of home dusk red earth the sound of a water pump in the distance a dog barking a melodious call to prayer echoes across the valley the pool is still the last traces of the golden sun vanish behind a purple mountain email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by maysaloon at 2 06 pm 0 comments monday june 19 2017 vanished worlds i had a vivid memory come to mind the other day it was of a winter night with a stove in a house in damascus covered in chestnuts and orange skin peels it is winter there are people visiting the smell of coffee is in the air the house is long gone and so are the people in the memory some dead while the others are scattered around the globe i sometimes wish i d spent more time taking pictures of the street we lived in of the neighbours of the people we lived with and shared happy times with it s all different now all changed and i accept in my heart that it can never come back the thing about those times was that they felt so mundane and so boring a bit like the present moment as i sit typing this in an office and pretend to look busy with work i heard a quote by an unattributed russian writer once we fear the future which quickly becomes the present that we hate and then the past that we miss that s so true and it sums up the human condition so well when the revolution started i used to feel sad for that vanished world and i do miss it but there are other worlds for me and different futures to create we re not meant to live in the past the future isn t written yet and there is still so much more to live for email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by maysaloon at 11 47 am 0 comments labels ramblings saturday april 08 2017 my thoughts on the us airstrike against assad there is something that is happening right now something that most people aren t talking about either because they haven t noticed it yet or like the syrian regime they are ignoring and at the same time trying to kill it emerging from the cinders of a country syrians are developing a common sense of identity and a new way of looking at the world they are in effect becoming a new country whether it is a new syria is a different question the old country with its corrupt baathist socialist legacy and the politicisation of all aspects of life and the corresponding ideological baggage is now giving way to a country where being an exile underpins your sense of national identity and necessitates pragmatism these syrians don t need expensive post grad diplomas and degrees in journalism and international relations to understand that the us strike was in their interest even if the motives behind it were not these are the same syrians who celebrated the election victories of the akp and president erdogan in turkey and who breathed a collective sigh of relief when the coup attempt against president erdogan failed or who cheer on when the israeli airforce attacks the assad regime and its hezbullah allies when syrians take these positions they are not interested in domestic turkish or american entanglements and they are not interested in tying the syrian revolution with the palestinian struggle against israeli occupation they are interested solely in dealing with the dictator whose family has had its boot on their necks for the past forty years they are in effect expressing as syrians a nascent national interest their national interest we should probably listen to what these people have to say instead of ignoring them or trying to change their point of view email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by maysaloon at 9 28 am 0 comments labels syria saturday february 11 2017 mr fake news there are a lot of things that rile me about bashar al assad but none more than his manner when speaking to members of the press in a recent interview with michael isikoff from yahoo news he sat like a well behaved school boy ready to respond to all the questions he was given in what could have been a curveball isikoff called assad s bluff when he was asked do you have a picture isikoff did when he saw the picture he asked isikoff if he knew who those people in the picture were if he knew where it was taken and whether it had been photoshopped he had the temerity to chide the interviewer for not verifying a picture before presenting it in front of an audience and that kind of sums up assad s approach to all interviews it s clear that he s coached that he s been drilled endlessly on how to answer all the difficult questions that he s done his homework and he does so with all the clinical precision of his supposed training as an ophthalmologist he uses the latest buzzword fake news in one of his answers and sidesteps completely the fact that there in his hand he was holding a picture showing the handiwork of the regime his father bequeathed to him in his hand he saw his own countrymen other syrians innocent people who had been rounded up and processed in the industrial torture and murder machine that works in the shadows away from mobile footage and unlike isis doesn t need flashy production values there is no audience for the handiwork done in assad s prisons there are only numbers and quotas as we saw in the recent amnesty report stating that over thirteen thousand syrians had been murdered in the regime s prisons since 2011 this is the new type of politics that is being unleashed on the world it s the same old politics we saw in the dirtiest days and nights of the cold war but with an additional twist it is packaged slickly for a consumerist society that can have everything it wants except freedom this is the technocratic dictatorial nightmare world of the putins of the chinese way that assad once admired the tech savvy world of the iranian ayatollah s who can ruthlessly crush a protest movement and match it point for point on internet savvy and tech know how in this cowardly new world politics is theatre even more so than anything the most corrupt and inept western democracy could ever come up with there are play actors for every role from president to opposition figure or intellectual everybody can act their role perfectly the only thing wrong with all of this is that none of it is real assad is not a real president syria does not have real elections there is no real army no real police not even a real education system it is a country of cardboard cut outs that set the background scenery for an even bigger national myth of greatness and resistance to anti imperialism in this backwards clumsy and childish impersonation of a functioning country a tall lanky man sits atop a pyramid of violence murder and lies and tells the world that everything is fine and that the problem isn t with him but with it email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by maysaloon at 5 42 pm 1 comments labels ramblings sunday january 29 2017 just want to be the world is so big and yet these days it seems so small everywhere you go you need papers little bits of information that say where you have to be who you are what you do we re supposed to be defined into little easy boxes that can be checked off some of the boxes are ok acceptable others not so much but the worst thing to be i think is nothing to not have a box that can be checked then the man behind the counter at the airport or the checkpoint or the harbour office or whatever else kind of barrier is out there scratches his chin and hums and haws he makes some calls asks some questions a superior is needed someone to think for him someone who will take the responsibility because the uniform he wears isn t supposed to represent competence only authority you re an irregular an abnormality an undesirable and so you re a problem not the stinking world not the man in the uniform not the clueless person typing up your life into a form on a computer and then telling you that you re not good enough no none of that you are the problem papers papers everywhere today they re electronic we just fill out little forms wait for the hour glass to stop spinning and then we get a decision that s going to shape our lives forever you can t click back you can t undo anything that s it your name has gotten on the wrong list no explanation no answers no reason you re done for mister i m sick sick sick of it it s dehumanising it s impersonal it screams against every instinct inside of me i feel like a gorilla rattling the bars of a prison he can t understand all my life growing up as someone who doesn t fit any of the boxes who doesn t have an easy answer to simple questions like where are you from i ve felt like i need to worry about what people will think about me about how they see me every action i do feels like something i need to think about and be able to explain would it give off the wrong meaning would the fact that the one time i decide to grow a beard again simply for the hell of it mark me in the wrong circles as an islamist or would the fact that i want to go out with my friends and have a good time that i kiss a woman i m not married to passionately mean i m not muslim enough or maybe that i m an acceptable type of muslim i don t want to go to a mosque on friday and listen to a shit sermon i don t want to go to prayers with anyone i don t want to stand with anyone i ll read the quran when i want if i want if i pray i ll pray alone if i drink alcohol or don t eat halal meat then i m not interested in your raised eyebrows i don t want your judgments or approval i don t want your questions i m not here to satisfy anybody s curiosity fuck you it s my business can i not just exist without being judged and having my every move watched is it too much to ask to just be left alone to be able to get on a plane without a worry and be with the people i care about or travel and see the world when i want to to be part of humanity to be able to say what i want without fear of something to think what i want to think feel how i want to feel make my own mistakes is that too much to ask do i have to constantly be expected to pick sides do i need people to constantly be speaking for me deciding what s best for me deciding how it is that things will be can i not just be a human being is it too much to ask to just be email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest posted by maysaloon at 9 30 pm 0 comments labels ramblings older posts subscribe to posts atom about me maysaloon a syrian awakening in a modern world that s gone insane view my complete profile maysaloon twitter account thoughts خواطر follow me on twitter more maysaloon maysaloon s youtube channel why maysaloon why blog in english my library labels cool arabia 4 abd al bari atwan 8 afghanistan 17 algeria 4 art 7 colonialism 32 egypt 29 ethiopia 4 eurasia 2 europe 9 fatah 16 feminism 2 france 4 gaza 3 great people 36 hamas 27 hezbullah 63 history 12 hummus 4 iran 86 iraq 126 islam 108 israel 161 jordan 12 judaism 2 kurds 2 lebanon 91 libya 15 lina sinjab 8 mauritania 1 middle east 12 morroco 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