Nizar Ali Badr creates small miracles in stone

BBC News ran a wonderful story last week about depictions of the war in Syria delicately put together with pebbles.

Storm over Syria

Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

Aleppo

A failure of the imagination.

Liar, liar, liar!

The war in Syria has cost the lives of more than 470,000 people and displaced nearly half the country’s population. Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad, is a tyrant and a liar.

“They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind”

It takes decades for a country to recover from war, generations to lay bitter memories to rest. What hope for Syria?

No redemption for warmongers

One hundred years ago, the British poet Siegfried Sassoon published “The Redeemer”, written during the First World War. The poem is starkly relevant today.

Time to depose Bashar al-Assad and to save Syria

So, getting rid of ISIS but letting Bashar al-Assad off scot-free is the way to go? I think not.