Melody Tajalli Individuals And Societies F Block This website was created on March 13th 2015 to research and evaluate a civil conflict taking place in the world today. I have chosen the country of Syria, which has been involved with a conflict for the last 4 years. My research involved an evaluation of the conflict, the participants, the history and context of the country, as well as providing a potentially realistic solution to the conflict. POEM BY: Ammar Tabbab The night became long and the dark increased,
but I didn’t find starlight to indicate the path.
The trip became long, and my footsteps began
to disappear, without them how would I find a way back. ...
I doze off with a dream petting my eyeball.
At the same time I fear the daybreak will bury me.
Don’t ask about me.
Don’t ask who I am.
"I Am Syrian" Written by Youssef Abu Yihea / Translated by Ghada Alatrash
I am a Syrian.
Exiled, in and out of my homeland, and
on knife blades with swollen feet I walk.
I am a Syrian: Shiite, Druze, Kurd,
Christian,
and I am Alawite, Sunni, and Circassian.
Syria is my land.
Syria is my identity.
My sect is the scent of my homeland,
the soil after the rain,
and my Syria is my only religion.
I am a son of this land, like the olives
apples pomegranates chicory cacti mint grapes figs ...
So what use are your thrones,
your Arabism,
your poems,
and your elegies?
Will your words bring back my home
and those who were killed
accidentally?
Will they erase tears shed on this soil?
I am a son of that green paradise,
my hometown,
but today, I am dying from hunger and thirst.
Barren tents in Lebanon and Amman are now my refuge,