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a letter to Greta and Vanessa, our daughters devoted to justice
My dear daughters Greta and Vanessa, in these days of silence we are living in a state of anxiety, worry and pain. Your good hearts, your profound humanity and sensitivity prompted you to not turn your...
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#Not_in_our_name: wars and terrorism are killing dialogue
WRITTEN BY ASMAE DACHAN, translated by Mary Rizzo The news from Syria and Iraq on the persecution of the Christian and Yazidi minorities on behalf of ISIS is shaking world public opinion. Is not...
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Defying the media lies about Syria – finding truth in the body of evidence
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO The question invariably arises when one loses faith in the narratives of the news media: If the mainstream media sets forth aspects of an issue in order to put forth a particular...
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How important is the question of “sectarianism” and is Assad a guarantor of a...
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO: Many people have never heard of the word Sectarianism until the past few years. A simplistic definition would be a conflict between religions or ethnic groups. The antidote to...
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The embrace of two Nobel winners, the sense of innovation and our laziness
WRITTEN BY MASSIMO RUSSO, translated by Mary Rizzo What do the tears of Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkul Karman at the summit for the Peace of Rome tell us: if we don’t like the present, it is only up to us...
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The policy of changing the demographic composition of Al-Ahwaz, a practical...
WRITTEN BY AHWAZNA, Prepared and presented by: Committee for research and studies in The Arab Movement for the Liberation of Al-Ahwaz Ahwaz is an occupied Arab country located in the southwestern...
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Ahwazi mass demonstration in front of the Iranian occupying regime embassy in...
Written by Ahwazna The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz organized a mass demonstration entitled “we never forget our Ahwazi oppressed people” in front of the embassy of the Iranian...
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Vanessa and Greta: our heroes who know the importance of being there
Written by Mary Rizzo Hundreds of articles, thousands of comments and dozens of conjectures have emerged since the liberation of Greta Ramelli and Vanessa Marzullo from their imprisonment in Syria....
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Greta and Vanessa, courage against indifference
WRITTEN BY ASMAE SIRIA DACHAN, translated by Mary Rizzo The emotion was immense when, Friday, 16 January, 2015, the Italian news agency Ansa finally released the title:”Palazzo Chigi (Office of the...
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VANESSA AND GRETA ARE NOT “INCOMPETANT FOOLS”
A word from Rosamaria Vitale, 55, the surgeon who was supposed, until the last moment, to take part in the mission in Syria with the two recently freed Italian girls. She had met the girls in Milan, in...
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Vanessa e Greta, thank you: a message from a member of the SNC
Dearest daughters, dear Vanessa and Greta, Welcome home. We are very happy to know you are safe within the loving embrace of your families. In these five months we have never stopped praying for you....
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The Desperate situation of the Ahwazi people (Arabs in Iran) from 1979 to...
WRITTEN BY RAHIM HAMID The revolution of 1979 in Iran was visualized like a remedy in the minds and hearts of Ahwazi Arab people who were yearning for freedom and justice after having been oppressed by...
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Protests sweep through Ahwazi cities, and Iranian Occupation forces repress...
Written by Rahim Hamid Thousands of Ahwazi people have gathered once again on 14th, 15th and 16th of February in front of Ahwaz Governorate office in Ahwaz’s capital demanding swift actions to cope...
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Are you Progressive Except for Syria? Take the handy test here!
WRITTEN BY Mary Rizzo. We have all already heard of the phenomenon of PEP (Progressive Except on Palestine), in which those who consider themselves progressives (liberals in the USA) or leftists are...
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Forced sterilization, exclusion, persecution, cultural genocide: The...
Mona Oudeh, an Ahwazi activist based in London, said in an interview with Al-Sharq Newspaper that she has always carried the burden of the Ahwazi cause like every other Ahwazi Arab woman who rejects...
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Who is Father dall’Oglio, the Jesuit abducted in Syria 2 years ago?
WRITTEN AND TRANSLATED By Samantha Falciatori “Democracy in Syria is possible, but only if freedom of expression is assured and if you waive any attack on human dignity and abuses against human...
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Arrest, Detention, Torture, Starvation, Rape… when you are a Palestinian Girl...
(translated by Ruth Riegler) An eighteen-year-old Palestinian girl named ‘Huda’ has detailed her horrific experiences in Syrian regime prisons, ranging from beatings and torture with electric shocks to...
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Arresti, Detenzioni, Torture, Fame, Stupro… Essere una ragazza palestinese in...
(Traduzione di Claudia Avolio) Una ragazza palestinese diciottenne di nome Huda ha spiegato nel dettaglio le orribili esperienze vissute nelle carceri del regime siriano, che vanno dalle percosse alla...
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Progressively worse: how Obama strengthens totalitarianism
written by Ruth Riegler What foreign policy values does Obama actually believe in? From his speeches, each one a lovingly crafted oratorical masterpiece, one would imagine him to be a hybrid of...
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Damascus chemical attack, two years on.
WRITTEN BY SAMANTHA FALCIATORI The nearly 1,400 people poisoned to death on Aug. 21, 2013 do not have an official murderer yet, but ballistic analysis leaves little doubt. Here is what we know and what...
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