tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142403002024-03-13T06:53:36.131+03:00Bits & Bites of SyriaThoughts, hopes & dreams for my beloved Syria...Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-62106286024908996502008-05-21T22:16:00.007+03:002008-05-22T06:30:30.313+03:00Congratulation LebanonI would like to take the opportunity in this joyful day and congratulate our neighbours, the Lebanese, for making such a historic, humanly-impossible-to-achieve deal.To those who happen to read this blog but have no clue what happens in Lebanon and what deal that is, here is a summary of Lebanon's history.Lebanon for dummies: Few years ago, Lebanon was existed Few years after, Lebanese started Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-52561686840562036992008-05-09T23:31:00.009+03:002008-05-10T00:17:04.026+03:00Happy Birthday Israel...Let’s try to be civilized for once and share the joy of such a memorable anniversary with our neighbor, Israel. Let’s show that we are stretching our hands for peace with the only democracy in the Middle East and prove to the Western Media that unlike they have been reporting, Israel is not surrounded by “often” hostile neighbors. I here call all my country-men and women to join me here in this Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-82869766040772418172008-04-25T05:26:00.007+03:002008-04-25T05:56:52.276+03:00Rats smell worse than fish The CIA released today the assumptional-analytical footage of the alleged destroyed Syrian Nuclear Reactor. It is available here.Within the 11 minutes footage, one can count words like “likely and probably” at least once in every narrated paragraph. The whole thing was utter speculations and even more fixation to make it look as they wanted to be. While I cannot refute the fishy smell Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-89169505100910358242008-03-09T07:41:00.006+02:002008-03-09T07:58:33.391+02:00Hypocrisy101Q:What do you call the killing of 8 Israeli civilians at a radical religious school?A: a massacre.Q: What do you call the killing of 120 Palestinians of which more than 66 were civilians, most of them children, at their homes?A: a right to defend Israel's existence .Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-82623408464086321472008-03-02T06:33:00.005+02:002008-03-02T06:49:11.894+02:00When cannibals don't seem bad all of a sudden*They say what starts on blood, can only feed on blood. The Israelis have beaten the cannibals, while the later take a life to feed on, the formers take lives and keep on taking lives for the sick nature of their being.60 Palestinian have been killed within 24 hours. Everybody is silent. The so-much-civilized world all of a sudden falls asleep amid all the killings of innocents in Gaza. Why Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-90851393124033363952008-01-13T00:47:00.000+02:002008-01-31T16:33:00.333+02:00Human Abuse in Syria - Part 1Years ago, we used to point fingers at the Arabs in the oil-rich countries and accuse them of all sort of abuses, we used to hear and tell stories of the Asian house-maid that are not being treated as humans but as objects owned by their employers. We used to hear stories of human trafficking in Dubai where girls from Asia and East Europe are being fooled to go there and once they arrive, their Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-50102511987591654932007-02-28T07:40:00.000+02:002007-02-28T07:45:28.725+02:00A Syrian citizen….Many of the Syrian bloggers have been showing support to the Egyptian blooger (Kareem) who got sentenced for "blogging" and saying what the Egyptian Authorities deemed inappropriate….I started wondering if the Syrian bloggers have a safer haven! Syria is one of very few countries in the world that denies the access to blogspot in an attempt to prevent Syrians to read what bloggers may have to sayIhsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-18702884010199150702007-01-02T05:21:00.001+02:002008-04-03T19:46:38.797+02:00Arab Jarab عرب جربThe name could be offensive, if we read it and stop without furthering our reading through the paper. The name of the newly launched newspaper, Arab Jarab, is far beyond controversial.Then, why this name?First of all, the name is a sign of refusal to many of the social or socio-political aspects in the Arab world. Since all the people who are working on this newspaper project are Arabs, then, we Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1165612902819735932006-12-08T23:19:00.000+02:002006-12-08T23:21:42.866+02:00A reason why we are backwards in a way.... I have had access to the internet for 10 years now and ever since, I started doing more than surfing, as I had my first website online before we had internet in Syria, although I was living in Syria at that time. I used to access the internet via dial-up accounts Jordan and Lebanon and had a fight every once and a while with my parents about the phone bill. I had made several types of websites, Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1163652188334933332006-11-16T06:38:00.000+02:002006-11-16T06:43:08.350+02:00Have you met Abeer?Meet Abeer, an Iraqi girl who was only 14 year-old when she was raped by four American soldiers before she was shot to death with her family in Iraq during the American attempt to save Iraqis from the injustice of Saddam Hussein. I think they did very good job as Abeer and her family won't feel anything...anymore!Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1162180209644284462006-10-30T05:27:00.000+02:002006-10-30T06:25:02.186+02:00Until further notice....I have never been a fan of the Syrian regime in my whole live, I grew up to lose my faith and trust in it. There is no need to list my reasons as they are the same as anyone's who loves his/her homeland, Syria.When the Americans started their invasion, or claimed liberation, of Iraq, I was one of those who were happy for the Iraqis because they were about to get rid of the tyranny of Saddam Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1155583899909573112006-08-14T22:25:00.000+03:002006-08-14T22:37:11.260+03:00Israel lost : Lebanon wonThe war has somehow stopped. Lebanon was heavily destroyed (Only some parts of the country where the Shiiate live but nowhere near the capital and the areas controlled by some personnel of the Lebanese government who are considered "friends" of the USA).Israeli officials are claiming to have won by the issuance of the UN resolution 1701. In response to that claim, yes they won, but who wouldn't Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1154219956795662852006-07-30T03:22:00.000+03:002006-07-30T05:58:15.890+03:00Murderous PrideThe war is about to end or will end soon after the extensive diplomatic efforts by many countries followed by a sudden rush by the USA to stop the war. The USA, who has fully supported the Israeli's aggression against Lebanon, is now forced to work on stopping the aggression after the obvious loss and embarrassment of Israel's mighty army.Of course, the picture will be enhanced in order to Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1153318429006168392006-07-19T17:01:00.000+03:002006-07-30T04:43:29.066+03:00From Israel to Lebanon with love.....People around the world wonder why Arabs hate Israel. Their questions are based on the propaganda that Israel is a democratic entity in the Middle East that is facing evil powers around it whose only aim is to eliminate this peace-loving democratic state.If people use reliable sources to get their information about the Middle East, they will understand and maybe hate Israel themselves.Israel is aIhsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1153216645210750092006-07-18T12:52:00.000+03:002006-07-18T13:56:27.836+03:00Lebanese terorrists caught on camera! I was watching the coverage of the current blood bath in the Middle East on CBS news!Their first reporter in Haifa shed some light on the agony of the Israelis in that city and mentioned that their life will never be the same after those days! Then the reporter interviewed a high ranking military officer who said they are sending warnings to the Lebanese civilians and doing their best to Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1153049146580781732006-07-16T14:21:00.000+03:002006-07-17T11:14:05.890+03:00Today, We Are All LebaneseLebanon has been sentenced to death. On Wednesday 12 July, she was put in prison, and now she's being tortured.Israel's war is with Lebanon's civilians, not Hizbollah. Nearly every person killed has been a civilian. Power stations, bridges and petrol stations have been targeted. Israel has warned residents to get out of certain villages, but bombed roads to make it difficult - and refugee convoysIhsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1145297005243084662006-04-17T20:53:00.000+03:002006-04-18T18:34:08.580+03:0060 years....60 years, Syria has been in independence of any foreign control over the country and independence of any existence of non-national sovereignty.60 years, Syrian people have been having independence in which, they didn’t feel independent. An independence in which they have to comply to Arabic speaking authorities with Syrian identity that is not much different than any other non-Arabic speaking Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1141158614681408442006-02-28T22:17:00.000+02:002006-02-28T22:30:14.706+02:00The secret of DamascusIs it the people of Damascus, with their fading smile that fights with the daily difficulties of life in Syria?Is it the old section of Damascus, with its warm alleys and the smell of the hundreds of years that live among its walls?Is it the modern part of Damascus, with its random allocations, and the smell of the pollution in the sky?Is it the human noise in Damascus, with its mixture of all Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1139098120527671802006-02-05T01:55:00.000+02:002006-02-05T02:26:05.333+02:00Ashamed of being Syrian! I woke up this morning on the news of “Angry Syrians set two European Embassies on fire”.I felt furious for this kind of response. This is not us, or at least, not what I thought we were not!I welcomed, both, the commercial and diplomatic actions in response to the cartoons that mocked the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and for once, I felt that we are reacting in a civilized manner! Not any more!Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1136861634721841932006-01-10T04:41:00.000+02:002006-01-10T06:00:49.933+02:00A colorless occasion...Once again, in the middle of all the darkness that our country is going through, a new occasion for the Syrians to celebrate and act as if nothing wrong surrounding their future and the future of their country. They are trying to add their own colors to these colorless days.It's the first Eid for me away from home and my beloved ones. I have lost track of days and occasions that used to mean a Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1134749662453226972005-12-16T18:03:00.000+02:002005-12-16T20:39:48.843+02:00Hurrray, back to misery, people! It’s clear to all those who follows the news, that the pressure on Syria in regard to Harirri’s assassination has been defused and reached the lowest level ever since it has started. While this is not good news for many people in Lebanon and other countries, but surely is great news for all the Syrians.Having the Syrian people standing by their government throughout this Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1133624652842572392005-12-03T17:38:00.000+02:002005-12-06T19:03:43.510+02:00How to look at it, if you want to love it.No fancy buildings, no fancy lightings, no fancy streets, just some random buildings and few cars, a bit of street lights here and there of which some may be broken.Yet, this is my favorite city in the world, Damascus. I cannot have enough of this view, the view from my building. Soon enough, my eyes will be missing it, not my heart however.Damascus has this magic, that whenever you feel down andIhsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1132001964472861032005-11-14T22:27:00.000+02:002005-11-25T06:10:11.006+02:00When 6 is bigger than 18.000.000!The country is deemed to suffer in exchange of the survival of 6 people! The freedom of 18.000.000 Syrians is compromised for the freedom of 6 people!Even though we are sure that the plot is not about the 6 people, but the fact that our government is willing to put everything at the stake right from the beginning just for the sake of 6 people is a frightening thought!Can it get any darker? Sure Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1129906721151455092005-10-21T16:49:00.000+02:002005-10-21T17:04:33.960+02:00Cloudy TimeIn the light of the investigation report that was released last night, which was clearly made to match a pre-set scenario in which, Syria, the only remaining evil, is deeply involved in the assasination of the Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Al-Hariri, at the government level.Even though the report lacks evidences and is based on stories of anonymous people or people who are known to have a thing Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14240300.post-1127719856853705612005-09-27T17:00:00.000+03:002005-09-27T12:31:32.953+03:00Fortune & Misfortune!....What is in common between fortune and misfortune? ...Hope? Can’t be, some hope for fancy toys, and some hope for a decent bite of food. ..Dreams? Can’t be, some dream of weekend picnics and some dream of a warm shelter. .Fear? Can’t be, some fear a lousy birthday party and some fear a cold winter. .Then what is it?It’s the laughter on their faces, the laughter that overcomes all of their Ihsanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654122542878557184noreply@blogger.com6