أسامة نصّار

سلامٌ عليك يا أستاذنا في العالمين… سنبقى ممتنين معترفين بفضلك وحقّك.

يفشل العالم في حماية المستضعفين في الأرض، والمهمة الوحيدة التي ينجح فيها اليوم هي صناعة التطرف. فماذا ننتظرُ غير خيارات عدمية عندما نستعرض مآلات بائسة أمام المقهورين؟

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Arabic on 2 April, 2018] DOUMA, Eastern Ghouta: Today, all that the people of Eastern Ghouta want is to be treated like human beings, exactly like those who are deciding their fate. They want the continuous holocaust against them to be stopped; to know their fate; to know the form that will be taken by their future…

ما أضيقَ الباب وأكربَ الطريق الذي يؤدي إلى الحياة، وقليلون هم الذين يجدونه!

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Arabic on 22 March, 2018] DOUMA, Eastern Ghouta: “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:14) The military campaign against Eastern Ghouta has imposed its terms locally on civilians, creating a compounded siege pressing them from four sides: The military pressure practiced…

شاعَ تشبيه الحصار بالسجن، وكثيراً ما يجد المعتقلون السابقون فوائد لمهارات تعلموها في المعتقل، وقد يحدث العكس؛ أن تزيد هذه الخبرة في مصيبة صاحبها، خاصة إذا كان مَن سجنه بالأمس هو نفسه مَن يحاصره اليوم.

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Arabic on 29 November, 2017. The author is a former political prisoner currently living in besieged East Ghouta, where he is a nonviolent civil society activist. The artworks used in this article were created by Dima Nashawi.] EAST GHOUTA, Damascus Province – Many are the cities and neighborhoods that have been besieged in the past, in Syria…