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For Fuckin’ Fuck’s Sake! Cut it Out!

Posted in For Discussion, Media Monitoring, State of the Republic, Syria, Syrian Politics, tagged , , , , , , on September 13, 2009 | 26 Comments »

Karim Arbaji has just been sentenced to three years in prison for defending human rights in Syria. Meanwhile, the Syrian blogosphere is bustling with posts advocating admirable and worthy campaigns. There’s the astounding campaign against masturbation, the noble Blogging Week for Moral Decay, and the enlightening campaign for Blogging Against Fossilized Thinking.
The background of [...]

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Pepsi Max: 0 Sugar, tasteless ad

Posted in Culture and Arts, General Nonsense, Media Monitoring, Syria, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Sitting in one of Damascus’s infamous Microbuses (locally known as Servees), A Pepsi Max ad plays on the radio. It goes like this:
Buyer: Give me Pepsi Max.
Shopkeeper: It has no sugar.
B: I know, but it has all the taste.
SP (in dullest most stupid voice imaginable): but it has no sugar.
B: I know! but it has [...]

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هل سئمت من حجب الانترنت؟

Posted in General Nonsense, State of the Republic, Syria, tagged , , , , , , , on March 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »

من مثلي سئم من حجب مواقع الانترنت بشكل عشوائي أغلب الوقت، دون نواظم أو قواعد واضحة؟
ساعد مشروع Herdict Web في تكون صورة واضحة عن أي مواقع محجوبة في أي بلد وفي أي وقت، يمكنك فعل ذلك عن طريق موقع Herdict.org أو بتنزيل إضافة لمتصفح فايرفوكس.
المشروع تابع لمركز بيركمان للانترنت والمجتمع التابع لجامعة هارفارد، سوريا الآن [...]

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Concert: “Echo of Gaza’s Children Screams”

Posted in Culture and Arts, Music, Syria, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I got the following via email, asking me to publish it here.. I gladly comply

Dear ECHO Members and Friends,
ECHO Musical Cultural Association in collaboration with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) invite you to support the children of Gaza by attending the following fundraising concert:

Concert: “Echo of Gaza’s Children [...]

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Palestinian Scarf, Resistance ‘a la mod’

Posted in General Nonsense, State of the Republic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Picture taken from a magazine ad for a local radio station.
Today, you can hardly walk the streets of Damascus without passing by quite a few young men and women wearing Palestinian scarves, which at one point became a symbol of the resistance and the “Fida’ees”, a symbol of freedom fighters and an ever lingering dream [...]

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They had it Coming

Posted in State of the Republic, Syrian Politics, US Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“So is it you [the Syrians] or the Iranians next on the American list?” Asked a friend of mine in a recent IM conversation, and continued with the following statement “well since both Syria and Iran are democracies and the people elected their governments and can hold them accountable for their actions, they deserve [...]

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