Although we can’t know exactly why humans started developing symbols or how they were first used, we can speculate on some things about this ancient history. About 100000 years ago symbols were used by the First Peoples. Symbols were used as body markings of tribe members or drawn on the walls of caves illustrating everyday …
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Life is a journey through reality that is filled with our emotions. Exile is the feeling of being without land, even though we were born on Earth. Borders are fake lines arranged to polarise our human race and to create a reason to fight. When we were born, we had neither nationalities nor religions; we …
Secrets of Poetry As a poet and activist from Southern Syria, my goal is to contribute significantly to the enrichment of literature with a strong emphasis on the reality of war. Thanks to my background in social activism during the war in Syria and ten years of work as a medical technician in a women’s …
The human being and humanity. What does humanity mean? If the human being is blood and body and probably soul, how does our humanity compare to these? Are we limited? Will our humanity finish when we die? We as a humankind do not know each other without names. Our knowledge belongs to others, starting with …
Who am I? Which part of your body is your identity? If you would like to know who you are, let us start from the first cells you had at birth. Are those cells still the same? Within this journey in our body, we have been changing almost every day; our entire body is regularly …
Do not insult the gods you neither believe in nor did not know about. We have been becoming adults through our long journey on this earth; the first human was killing to survive, and he or she didn’t know that the others were him or her. It was a fear of difference. It’s quite a pity …
The suffering of one nation, anywhere in the world, is the suffering of all us. If we allow the suffering of any people, then what is the fate of our planet? We have to be aware that war is nothing else than the end of all humanity. What is happening now in Syria is the …
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First, let me explain to you the literal meaning of this word: Ghouta. Ghouta in Arabic language means a low-lying place, full of plants and rivers. It is one of the most fertile areas on earth. The soil there produces all kinds of fruits: apricots, peaches, cherries, nuts, corn, grapes. All of them have a …
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