Humanity
Moment of Freedom
My moment of freedom only profoundly affected my life and happened on three different days…in three different years. The first moment of freedom- I was thirteen years old standing in a police station, the officer had just walked in and told me that my stepfather could never touch me again, he was just arrested on six counts of endangerment and molestation…I fell to my knees sobbing as the pressure on my chest both lifted and got heavier.
By Ashley 4 years ago in Confessions
FYI There's Still a Pandemic
2020-current The years we shall never forget, the years that we started homeschooling our kids, more working from home and spending more time with our families. When planning a vacation became impossible without jumping through loops to make sure you are cleared for air/boat travel.
By Karli Law4 years ago in Confessions
Passing pictures from captive Palestine
The lightning visit to occupied Palestine raises you many questions and pains, more than it provides you with answers. My arrival coincided with a severe cold wave that almost pierces the bones, the like of which the country had not seen in March for a hundred years. The homes here are not prepared for such cold, and the farmers these days are separated from the fire and the use of firewood, and what is added to it from the remnants of the olive yield after its pressing, and it is called locally “peat”, which was added to the wood and kept the fire for hours and spread warmth throughout the small houses. People have generally replaced it with electric or gas heaters, which are hardly enough for anyone who puts them directly in front of them. Try to scoop as much information as possible and meet as many stakeholders, activists and thinkers as possible, to understand the picture for what it is as possible.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Europe and Ukrainian refugees
With the Russian war on Ukraine, Europe found itself facing an unprecedented challenge, not only in the strategic and military sense, but also in the humanitarian and societal sense, with this large and continuous influx of Ukrainian refugees towards its various countries.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
About Ali Farzat and Women's Bodies
One of the arguments put forward by the Syrian artist, Ali Farzat, in defense of the caricature in which the body of a member of the opposition coalition was used for the latter’s “criticism” and its performance, is that naked bodies are spread as models in most museums and galleries in the world. This argument, through which Farzat, who sparked a storm of controversy and criticism, wanted to transfer the controversy from masculine behavior in looking at women's bodies as a "disgrace" that can be used in political battles and harming opponents, to defending art and the freedom to paint the naked body. In this tactic, he benefited from a good number of conservatives who objected to the drawing, simply because it embodies the woman's body, and not because he views it from a derogatory angle, and uses it as a sign of poor political performance.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Syria and the world in the shadow of the war in Ukraine
As in the month of March of every year, the memory of the 2011 revolution was recalled by various means, demonstrations in and outside Syria, writings and other cultural activities. This year, a statement emerged by a group of European countries and the United States, which carried some verbal fairness to that betrayed revolution and the victims of its brutality. The Assad regime may have revived some faint hopes that the Syrian issue might regain some international attention, on the occasion of the Russian war on Ukraine and in the context of the unprecedented Western campaign to tighten the screws on Putin.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Enough with the scars and scars... and let's turn the Ukraine crisis to our advantage
It is a farce of fate that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett brazenly continues his attempts to play the role of mediator in the Russian/Ukrainian crisis to stop the war, while he, the hard-line settler, refuses to meet with any Palestinian officials, and at any level to end the oldest crises in the Middle East, but rather in the scientist.
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in Confessions
The mother is brave between the epics of war and poverty
The images and faces broadcast by world televisions from Ukraine crowd together and even resemble reincarnation. However, two features caught my attention. The first is the prevalence of the situation that transcends ages and civilizations: that the only concern of men is to ensure that their women and children leave the country. A man cannot divert his concern to resistance and fighting when he is not reassured after his family has reached their safety in one of the neighboring countries. That is why you see men in train and bus stations torn between the pain of excruciating separation and the peace of mind resulting from the certainty that they no longer have anything to fear after the prospect of death in battle has become exclusively for them, excluding their families and loved ones. The second feature is the significance worthy of extracting from the story of two parents who took risks and walked with their daughter dozens of miles in the midst of the advancing tanks and the bombing of artillery and mortars, without finding a place to hide or shelter along the way, as they hardly reached the Moldavian border. The BBC's lofty Irish correspondent, Orla Guerin, addressed them in her distinctive, focused style that is incomparable in the balance of tone and the reliability of the testimony. Her concern for our little daughter. Her courage was extraordinary. It encourages me.
By Zernouh abderrahman4 years ago in Confessions
