@fkontar78 So low. You’d think those are bots and fake accounts. But no. وجه السحارة تبعن. Every time I think they’ve hit rock bottom, they prove me wrong.
I have just finished listening to Defiance by @Loubnamrie
Few books have left me feeling this moved, this unsettled, and this grateful. Not because they offered perfect answers, but because they preserved the truth in all its imperfections.
Reading it felt, at times, like an act of remembering. A reminder of the losses some feared and tried to avoid, others knowingly embraced, and many never realized they were risking until it was too late. A reminder, too, of the extraordinary courage displayed by ordinary people.
It is the story of a Syrian who hoped, dreamed, rebelled, lost, loved, failed, survived, and painfully carved a path through a suffocating system. Through that deeply personal journey emerges something larger: a portrait of a generation forced into impossible choices.
What makes this memoir remarkable is not only its honesty, but its refusal to simplify. At a time when the Syrian story is so often flattened into neat narratives, heroic verses, political slogans, or the distant gaze of those observing from afar, this book insists on complexity.
@levantophile Spring arrives in Sweida with a special kind of magic. It transforms the entire mountain, painting almost every inch of the soil in green (thanks to this year’s generous rainy season) May the future of this mountain mirror the greens of this spring, rising again full of hope.
EXCLUSIVE -- The U.S. is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus, according to six sources:
- Major sign of Syria's strategic realignment with Washington after Assad's fall
- Aims to help enable a Syria-Israel deal the Trump admin is trying to broker
الإعلان عن "خارطة طريق" لحل أزمة السويداء
في مؤتمر صحفي جمع المبعوث الأمريكي إلى سوريا، ووزير الخارجية الأردني، ووزير خارجية الحكومة السورية الانتقالية، اليوم الثلاثاء، تم الإعلان عن خارطة طريق بهدف حل الأزمة في السويداء، تضمنت سبعة بنود:
📌 محاسبة كل من تلطخت يداه بالاعتداء على المدنيين وممتلكاتهم بالتنسيق الكامل مع المنظومة الأممية للتحقيق والتقصي.
📌 ضمان استمرار تدفق المساعدات الإنسانية والطبية دون انقطاع.
📌 تعويض المتضررين وترميم القرى والبلدات وتسهيل عودة النازحين.
📌 إعادة الخدمات الاساسية وتهيئة الظروف لعودة الحياة الطبيعية.
📌 نشر قوات محلية من وزارة الداخلية لحماية الطرق وتأمين حركة الناس والتجارة.
📌 العمل على كشف مصير المفقودين وإعادة المحتجزين والمخطوفين إلى عائلات��م من جميع الأطراف.
📌 إطلاق مسار مصالحة داخلية يشارك فيه أبناء المحافظة بكل مكوناتهم.
@levantophile@HassRaja I agree with both of you. I was reflecting on why the currents in favor of Arabism were stronger and eventually prevailed at the time. Today Arabism is dead, besides Jumblatt maybe, who else in our region adopts this rhetoric?