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Saturday, 12 May 2012 Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Nile, Egypt, Israel, Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey. Sunrise in the east.
#nile #egypt #israel #lebanon #syria #turkey #etc
Apartment in Baramke, Damascus | Syria (by friend_faraway ~ Countdown to Jordan | via evysinspirations)
#Syria #Damascus
أنـا الـذي نـظـر الأعمى إلـى أدبـــي
و أسـمـعـت كـلـمــاتي مـن به صـمـمُ
الـخـيل والـلـيـل والـبـيداء تـعـرفـنـــي
و الـسـيــف والـرمـح والقـرطـاس والـقـلـمُ
“I, whose literature the blind perceived
And whose words those who are deaf heard.
The horse, the night and the desert know me
And the sword, the spear, the paper and the pen.”—Al-Mutanabbi
Abu at-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Mutanabbi is an Iraqi poet. Born in Kufah, Iraq in 915, he was educated in Damascus, Syria. His nickname Al-Mutanabbi means “the one who wants to become a Prophet” or the “would-be prophet”. The reason for this controversial nickname is not entirely known, some say that he claimed to be the predecessor of prophet Saleh (x). He was killed by a man named Dhaba al-Asadi for containing an insult towards him in one of his poems.
#kufah #iraq #damascus #syria #poetry #arabic #al-Mutanabbi
Al Nawfara Cafe, Damascus, Syria.
Probably one of my favourite places on earth to have coffee and smoke Nargileh and gossip. I hope to be able to go back…soon.
#culture #middle east #hookah #shisha #argileh #damascus #syria #thanks! #submission
Al Akhbar | Arab monitors watched Homs killings: Syrian activist
Arab League monitors stood by and watched on as Syrian troops killed more civilians in Homs, contradicting the mission head’s comments that he saw “nothing frightening” in the city, a Syrian opposition group said.
Sudanese General Mustafa Dabi, head of the Arab League observers, remarked on Wednesday that the situation in Homs “seemed reassuring so far.”
“Some places looked a bit of a mess but there was nothing frightening,” Dabi said.
An activist in Homs, Saleem Kabbani, refuted Dabi’s comments, stating that monitors “saw with their own eyes” clashes taking place in Homs.
“Yesterday when the head of the committee (Dabi) came to Baba Amro district, we heard live ammunition being fired. We told him there was live ammunition being fired, but he answered that it was not clear what was the source,” Kabbani said by phone from the flashpoint city.
Kabbani, a member of the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), said the monitors initially requested to visit Baba Amro – the scene of an alleged crackdown by Syrian forces on Monday – in the accompany of Syrian troops.
The locals refused the monitors’ request, Kabbani said, and the Arab observers eventually agreed to enter the area without Syrian troops after negotiations.
#Syria #News #conflicts #Homs
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