Images of the Syrian Conflict

The Seige of Aleppo - Photo by Javier Manzano

Two rebel soldiers in Syria guard their sniper's nest in the Karmel Jabl neighborhood of Aleppo as light streams through more than a dozen holes made by bullets and shrapnel in the tin wall behind them. The dust from more than one hundred days of shelling, bombing and firefights hung in the air. Karmel Jabl is strategically important because of its proximity to the main road that separates several of the main battlegrounds in the city. Both sides (the Free Syria Army and the regime) rely heavily on snipers in a cat and mouse game along Aleppo's frontlines. (Photo taken October 18, 2012)

Questions for Democracy

Questions for Democracy

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Pain and suffering,

What are you doing to your fellow human beings?

Taking away, when you should be giving?

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Lies,deception, epidemics and infection,

Bombs and collateral damage,

You complain you can't manage?

Shopping for Prada and Armani while you export the carnage?

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A Poem About the Dire Situation in Syria

A ssad Day

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Bashar Al Assad you make me so sad,
Had a choice to be good, you opted for bad.
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Like father like son you bring shame to Al Shaam,
Revel in goodnesss not in haraam.
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A Doctor of Opthalmology, how can you be so blind,
To the agony and torment you inflict on your land?
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Alawite, Twelver, which will it be?
Will you not listen to Allah's (swt) decree?
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Closer to you than your jugular vein,
Allah (swt) knows what is hidden, Allah (swt) knows your shame.
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Do you not fear the torment of fire?
That awaits tyrants who cling on to power?
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Seek repentance and come into the fold,
Lest Allah's (swt) wrath destroy your world.
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The ranks of the oppressed are amassed at the gates,
Yours is not the power to deny their fates!
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Al Shaam will be liberated in the days to come,

This blessed land shall be returned to the people once more,
Like the sea reclaiming the sand on the shore.

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MSK