Kiss Not War

Gustave Klimt's The Kiss 

on a ruined Damascus building

in war-torn Syria

Tammam Azzam

beauty & devastation

The Death of a Nation

Syria

LIBERTé

It Could Be

Philip Horani 

2011

Bullet 

Khaled Abdulwahed

2011

the story of the Syrian uprising told via videotaped painting performances

as following the closure of the country to foreign journalists, ordinary Syrians have taken it upon themselves to document, inform and comment on unfolding events.

virtual agora

Survival Kit

arts and animals

give human strength and hope

 to survive

Syrian refugee camps in Turkey and Libanon

Death of the Messenger

in Baba Amr, Syria

Journalist Marie Colvin killed by Syrian government forces to prevent the getting out of the truth of Assad regime's terror against their own people

 ‘We send home that first rough draft of history.’

Opps

Syrians demonstrating against Assad

"Change in Damascus is inevitable because Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, can no longer be trusted after an eight-month uprising in which thousands have been killed."