Collective Witnessing
R. Shareah Taleghani
IN MARCH 2011, in the city of Dar’a, Syria, a group of children sprayed anti-government slogans on the walls of their school. The response was swift and brutal. Shocking images of their tortured bodies ricocheted around the country and the world, generating so much outrage that this act of cruelty is widely considered to have triggered the Syrian Revolution. But this violence was not new to the population of Syria. “The brutality of the state’s crackdown in 2011 against […] children,” R. Shareah Taleghani writes in her unflinching new book,
Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights, “was not unfamiliar to Syrians. […] The detention, torture, and in some cases savage murder of the children in Dar’a are echoed in and connected to numerous stories told in works of contemporary Syrian prison literature.”
AJ TaylorFebruary 2, 2021Last Updated: February 2, 2021
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“CDC is Coming to Town” – A Celebration of Government Hypocrisy in The Era of COVID
Christmas is but a few days away, friends! What a joyous and festive season to honor the birth of our Savior in conjunction with the death of American liberty and your Constitutional rights.
How will you celebrate, fellow slave of an increasingly oppressive government?
There are so
very many options that allow you to have “fun” while remaining “COVID Compliant,” according to the CDC:
Stay at home by yourself.
Stay at home with your family.
Stay at home with your family while complaining on Twitter about staying at home family.