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Syrian Children and the Exit from the Dark Tunnel!

Salam Kawakibi
 
For more than five decades, the Syrian child was subjected to an orderly process of upbringing to control the phases of his growth and maturity. Following the nursery phase, which did not have an ideological formation, the child entered the realm of official popular organizations, along the North Korean model, controlling the child’s consciousness and distorting his growth.
 

Vol. 20, No. 70

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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK/ELIE CHALALA:
 
Justifying Starvation: Intellectual Reactions to Madaya’s Siege: “Madaya: Lebanese Degenerations”; “Madaya and all this Hatred”; “A Director of Sorts!”; “A Small Cameraman!”; “Hateful Hashtags on Social Media”
 
READINGS:
 
“On Random Violence” by Azmi Bishara; “Ceasefire” by Ghassan Charbel; “Aleppo: A Catastrophe Defying Poets’ Powers of Description” by Amjad Nasser; “How One Broadcaster Liberated Her Emotions with the Written Word” by Rima Assaf 

How One Broadcaster Liberated Her Emotions with the Written Word

By 
Rima Assaf
 
While preparing my report on the Holocaust of Aleppo, I felt the customary format of broadcast news did not allow me to express my feelings. Thus, I have resorted to these written words in order to release my unbearable pain after watching a father breaking and clawing at stones with his bare hands in search of his children, entombed under mountains of rubbles.
 
While preparing my report on the Holocaust of Aleppo, I felt the customary format of broadcast news did not allow me to express my feelings.

Aleppo: A Catastrophe Defying Poets’ Powers of Description

By 
Amjad Nasser

When talking about what is happening in Syria, I face the inability of language to express reality. My vocabulary remains limited. My ability to describe reality, the basic forms of literature and writing, remains limited. Nothing I have written or read could be elevated to the level of one moment of the reality experienced by Syrians in their disastrous country, or in their great Diaspora into which they were unmercifully pushed.

 

Broken Dreams: Love, Corruption, and the Plight of Foreign Workers in Israel

By 
Lynne Rogers
 
"...although a Palestine mystery, “Murder Under the Bridge” presents readers with a crime that exposes the harsh plight of illegal foreign female workers in Israel and the corruption that leads to their abuse."
 
Murder Under the Bridge, a Palestine Mystery
By Kate Jessica Raphael
She Writes Press, 2015
 
Kate Jessica Raphael describes her novel, “Murder Under the Bridge, a Palestine Mystery,” as “the product of my imagination and experience – the experience and imagination of a white, Jewish American who spent around eighteen months in Palestine, with brief forays into Israel

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