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  • The Assad Family's Darkest Moment

    12/08/2024 6:57:36 PM PST · by lasereye · 21 replies
    Richard's Substack ^ | December 8, 2024 | Richard Pollock
    The Syrian people are exuberant about the end of the Bashar al-Assad regime. But there is one atrocity by this notorious family that has been described as “one of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world.” That is the 1982 encirclement, starvation and mass execution of the residents of the Syrian city of Hama. This atrocity was committed by Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad. Last Friday, residents of Hama tore down the statue of Hafez al-Assad while the city fell to rebels. While much of the world just saw it as another Syrian city falling, its significance...
  • Bigger than Elvis

    09/16/2005 3:15:21 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 8 replies · 449+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Thursday September 15, 2005 | Robert Tait
    Despite the influence of the west on Iran's popular culture, Hafez, a poet who died over 600 years ago, still gets the crowds flocking, writes Robert Tait The pilgrims could have been on day out at Graceland. Representing the full range of the age and socio-economic spectrums, they came to pay homage to an icon of modern popular culture. But the hero being saluted was not Elvis Presley or any comparable figure from the age of mass communication, but a poet who died centuries ago, and whose messages remain disputed and obscure among even the most literary of his fellow...
  • Hijab and chador notwithstanding, Iranian women have carved out a space for themselves in society

    09/11/2005 12:02:03 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 6 replies · 562+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | Sunday, September 11, 2005 | Shubha Singh
    Why Iran, asked friends and relatives. Why should a group of women journalists decide to go on a busman’s holiday to Iran of all places? “You will have to cover your heads and won't be allowed to talk to men,” exclaimed a colleague. Iranian embassy officials were equally curious. The usual reasons were trotted out — it is an unlikely destination for a holiday with the family, but it is of interest to journalists as an important country in India’s neighbourhood. The visas finally arrived, just as we were giving up hope, and were accompanied by elaborate instructions — heads...