Ne-ga-tiv-ity

I passion fully hate negative people, this state of negativity in every word they say, in the way they say it, and in the purpose of saying it…
This defensive wall against falling, against facing the rights taken from them by themselves or others… the weak attitude that even if it broke down in a million pieces they stick by it whining and crying.
Those people who are trying to suck every hope out of your spirit, paralyze you with assuming that this is how things are and how things should be.
Yes people…. I can apply a change
Yes people…. I believe in my and every one’s Syria
No people….. I am not and will never get used to be comfortably dead
No people…. I wont lose the vision of my Syria
No people…. You may live in your “acceptance”… I wont.

Global Xchange (Glasgow - Aleppo)

I believe that most of our problems in the world are the likely results of lack of global communications and compassion.
Politicians ruined our world rather than built it… and we are obliged to fix it.

I am so excited…
I will work as a full time volunteer for three months in Glasgow (Uk) and three in Aleppo
I will live with a British Partner from the team and with host families who where kind enough to take two strangers in their homes in both cities.
I’ll be introduced to a new culture to live and experience and to express my culture and my Syria in the best way – I hope-
And the best part is that I’ll work with my multi-cultured team in building and helping communities and organizations that vary from small to big but all with one goal, to make the city a better place and so the world a better place to live in.
I will learn the best way to fund rising, spreading awareness, work on what societies need in both cities.
Organizing events with the Global citizen days that will give a closer look to my and other cultures.

I may be over excited for this activity, and many people around told me to rethink it, they are 6 months with the minimum allowance and poor communications with friends and family at home.
But what make this exceptional that I’ll work on things I believe in – which stood a big setback for me to accept working in relatively big companies here- I hate suits and high heels careers.

Syrian History

Today I was surfing a Syrian website that cares about documenting the Syrian history… and I realized how uneducated I was when it comes to my history.
I don’t know about you, but as I remember that our history education in our educational system never emphasize the Syrian history rather than the Arabian history…
How many critical characters in our political history we’ve missed learning about, some of them are really worthy to explore and visualize their visions about Syria…

Any how, here is the website Syrian History.
Not very detailed but rich with old documents and pictures, like this very interesting letter from Prime Minister Faris al-Khury, who was attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, to Nabih al-Azma, congratulating him on launching a new political party in Syria. The letter was written from Hotel Mcalpin in New York on March 7, 1947.

Set the control for the heart of the sun _ Live at Pompeii!

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Over the hills a swallow is resting (Under the eaves the swallow is resting)
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Over the mountain, watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine
Knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow ( One inch of love is one inch of shadow)
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Witness the man who waves at the wall (Witness the man who raves at the wall)
Making the shape of his questions to heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun


It is really a shame that some of pink Floyd’s fans don’t recognize this master piece from their 1968 album “ A Saucerful of Secrets”…

They gave it a great performance in their musical DVD
“Live at Pompeii – the director's cut” which is the best musical DVD I have ever seen…
The directors cut (Directed by Adrian Maben) that was released in 2003 is much better quality than the original one, not to mention the amazing “extras"

I strongly recommend every one who wants to live the whole pink Floyd experience to get this one, I mean …Watching them play on the sand in the middle of this ancient empty Roman amphitheater in Pompeii
… setting the outdoor studio in such an extraordinary position …
Astonishing visual art, and you will get a whole new concept of the bass guitar, not to mention those amazing footage of them in Abbey Road studios working on the Dark Side of the Moon…
Just young musicians with a musical vision and an outstanding talent and creativity…

God…This DVD means a lot to me… it brings enormous memories… the good old days!

It is not just the memories…

It can just rave you away… to the heart of the sun

A Child's waiting execution in Iran

Behnam Zare’ was 15 when he convicted with a murder, he spent 3 years in prison till he is 18 and now… this child is given 48 hrs to seek pardon from the family of the victim or he will be EXECUTED and become a victim himself of this barbaric inhumane judicial system.
The family how ever refused and Behnam Zare’ is at risk to be executed any minute now…

the Iranian court treats murders with the “quasas” i.e. the reprisal law , which brings us back hundreds of year ago, where those who invented this law where living in tents and … even though that Iran signed the
Juveniles justice along with the international law which clearly prohibit the execution as a punishment for those who committed crimes before they turned into 18, regardless of the crime.

More about Juveniles
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People who were under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed may not be sentenced to death, regardless of their age at the time of trial or sentencing. Article 6(5) of the ICCPR, Article 37(a) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, paragraph 3 of the Death Penalty Safeguards, Rule 17.2 of The Beijing Rules, Article 4(5) of the American Convention. [Article 6(4) of Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 prohibit the death penalty being pronounced on people aged less than 18 years at the time the crime was committed.]
The Inter-American Commission has stated that the prohibition on the execution of children is emerging as a norm of international customary law, in view of the number of states which have ratified the American Convention and ICCPR, and have modified their national legislation in accordance with those treaties. [Resolution No. 3/87 (United States) Case 9647, Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission, 1986-1987, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.71, doc. 9 rev.1, 1987, para. 60. The Commission considered that the USA had violated provisions of the American Convention when it executed two juvenile offenders, even though having signed the Convention it had not yet ratified it.]
The Human Rights Committee deplored provisions in legislation in a number of states in the USA which allow the death penalty as a punishment for people under 18 at the time the crime was committed and the execution of such people. The Committee exhorted the authorities to ensure that people are not sentenced to death for crimes committed before they were 18. [Observations of the HRC: USA, UN Doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.50, 7 April 1995, para.16] “

This is not a solo case
More than 70 CHILD are now on the death row in Iran