Mohammad Omran News Today

Over the course of a year in the 1970s, a group of Syrian leftist poets and short story writers gathered to publish an underground literary zine, clandestinely printing at university libraries and handing out copies to students and friends. The publication went unnamed and, at least for a little for a while, outside the radar of the mukhabarat. In the short period before its editors either faced arrest or were forced into hiding, “the pamphlet,” as it came to be known, made waves through Syr...

In early 2011, as she watched the removal of the graffiti that had been scrawled around Tahrir Square in the heady days of the popular uprising, followed by a “cleansing” of that space of revolt, Dina Heshmat realized she was witnessing the deliberate rewriting of history, a deletion of the people’s spontaneous discourse, to be replaced by a more elitist narrative. Guided by this awareness, Heshmat sets out, in Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, (Edinburgh University Pre...

Asma al-Akhras al-Assad never thought her family would ever be targeted by the US "Caesar Act" sanctions. More than that, the sanctions came to prove that change in Syria is an American policy, regardless of who is in the White House, whether it is Donald Trump or Joe Biden. Saturday 02/01/2021 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C), his wife Asma (L) and their children during the afforestation of Harsh al-Tufaha (Apple Forest) area in al-Drekish countryside in western Syria. (AFP) From "The stru...