Syria Speaks

Art and Culture from the Frontline

Nawara Mahfoud, Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen

• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780863567872
• eBook ISBN:
  9780863567926
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create art and literature that challenge official narratives. With contributions by over fifty artists and writers, both established and emerging, Syria Speaks explores the explosion of creativity and free expression by the Syrian people. They have become their own publishers on the Internet and formed anonymous artists collectives which are actively working in their country's war zones. The art and writing featured in this book, including literature, poems and songs as well as cartoons, political posters and photographs, document and interpret the momentous changes that have shifted the frame of reality so drastically in Syria.

Index

1. Abbas, Hassan 1, 2
2. Abbas, Rasha 1, 2
3. Abdallah, Bissam Abu 1
4. Abdelke, Youssef 1, 2, 3, 4
   1. A Martyr of Deraa 2 (2011) 1
   2. Knife and the Bird, The (2012) 1, 2
   3. Untitled (2013) 1
5. Abdelwahed, Khaled 1
   1. Dick-tator, The (2011) 1
6. Abdullah, Dara 1, 2
7. Aboud, Khaled 1
8. Aboud, Zaheer 1
9. Abounaddara 1, 2
   1. founding of (2010) 1
   2. Que Faire? (What is to Be Done?) 1
10. al-Achi, Assaad 1, 2
11. Adraa Women’s Prison 1
12. Adwan, Mamdouh 1
13. al-Ahmad, Bassam 1
14. Ahmad, Jwan 1
15. Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 1
16. Air Force Security Services 1, 2, 3
17. Alassad, Omar 1, 2
18. Aledlbi, Omar 1
19. Algeria 1
20. Alshaab alsori aref tarekh (The Syrian Peopl...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Hama ’82
• Gateways to a Scorched Land
• Ongoing
• The Thieves’ Market
• Lettuce Fields
• Revolution 2011
• Chicken Liver
• Between the Cultures of Sectarianism and Citizenship
• Banners in the Colour of the Euphrates
• The Art of Persuasion
• The Symbol and Counter-Symbols in Syria
• Cartoons by Kafranbel
• Mystery Shopper
• Popular Collision
• Lens Young
• A Black Cloud in a Leaden White Sky, or Death by Stabs of Sorrow
• Literature of the Syrian Uprising
• Loneliness Pampers Its Victims
• Have You Heard the Testimonies of the Photographs, about the Killings in Syria?
• Regarding the Pain of Others and Damascus 15 Feb 2012 19:47:31
• I’m Positively Sure about the Event
• Two Cartoons
• On the Intellectual and the Revolution
• Cocktail
• Lifetimes Stolen
• Letter for the Future
• Daily Occurrences
• Song in the Revolution
• Tashriqa: Prayer for Homs
• From the Outside Looking In
• Youssef from the Inside
• Art & Freedom
• Syria’s Imperfect Cinema
• Who Wants to Kill a Million?
• Script from Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator
• A Plate of Salmon is Not Completely Cleansed of Blood
• The Smartest Guy on Facebook
• Stencilling Martyrs
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Permissions
• Index
• Copyright