Important, interesting read: “Our diasporic condition suggests that a new approach might be made possible by inserting our traumatizing experiences, old and new, into a broader context of similar experiences.” aljumhuriya.net/en/content/gre…
On the #Syrian condition: “The politics of prison, where prison is a fundamental political institution, the function of which is to de-politicize the population; indeed to politicide them.”
“The country has become a homeland of homelessness and hopelessness, with not even the slightest promise of justice. A whole half-century without change; an eternity; is a fountain of very heavy despair.”
“The regime is designed to deny population the ability to predict & plan for future, occupying for them role of an unreadable deity. The terrorist impact of not knowing what will happen to you; the absolute unpredictability; has always been a very powerful method of politicide.”
“staying in power forever is impossible without a permanent threat of massacres, each one larger than the last, in a process leading inexorably to yet larger ones. This is perhaps an additional difference between the politics of extermination and “merely” dictatorial government.”
Through abad &the greater jail, the Assadist thanatocracy has created hitherto unimagined possibilities for politiciding people; a fact which has already empowered other juntas ruling in the Middle East, and rendered popular movements even weaker. Sisi’s Egypt is on the same path
“Syrians have lived in a peculiar kind of present; unable to foresee future& denied any promise of change, on one hand, while on other hand unable to forgive, not only because they have not been invited to, but also because of unpunishable nature of crimes committed against them"
Reads like poetry. A eulogy really. Wish he circled back to Arendt and Camus!
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