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A Mother And A Teenager In the Clutches Of Masuclinity
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Obada Takla- Al Thara
Translated by Michael Walker
6-6-2011
"My childhood and teenage years are tied by two stories and personalities that I can not forget," he said as he blew smoke from his cigarette and his eyes beamed with the hurt of the memory.
"The hero of the first tale was our neighbor Umm Salah who died a year and a half ago. |
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Mustafa & the Land Mine
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Mustafa Mohammad – Al Thara
Translation : Ghassan Al -Nassyef
5.2.2011
The big child , who was called “ Mustafa “ never left my memory, but rarely, since I was nine years of my age , I don’t recall that, even one time where we played soccer , without Mustafa interfering , snatching the ball from us , or threw this or that to the ground .. he was well built, no one could escape his instinctive villainy. |
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“Honor” crimes take even young girls
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A man kills his “17 year old” niece, the mother of an infant
Al-Thara Exclusive
4-12-2010
“Haifa. A.A”, was killed at the age of seventeen years, brutally, in cold blood, by her uncle, thirty years-old, while a group of present relatives did not intervene. He beat her head into the wall violently and repeatedly causing her to bleed to death, before he took her to the hospital which immediately pronounced the girl dead. |
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Father of Rape Victim Shahed
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demands the harshest punishments for the man who raped his daughter
By: Malek Abo khair- Al Thara
Translated by: Elly Teitsworth
4-9-2010
It is difficult to describe what happens to a raped child. No matter how we try to choose our words, we cannot express it; the tragedy is greater than anything that can be summarized in words. What happened to Shahad is difficult for us to forget—so how can she, a four-year-old girl, forget what happened? How can her innocent memory recover after all of this cruelty and brutality? |
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A Mother and Teenager Under Male Domination
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Obada Takla-Al Thara
6-6-2011
"My childhood and adolescence are linked with two stories and two people I can't forget," he said while taking a puff of his cigarette, looking through the smoke with pain in his eyes.
"The heroine of the first story was our neighbor, Um Silah, who passed away a year and a half ago. |
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A new Honor Crime Victim.. mother of Two Children
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Special to Al Thara
4.4.2010
On Saturday March 27, 2010, members of the family "B" in the north-eastern city of Amouda arranged the killing of their daughter, Susan. B, 25 years old and the mother of two, with bullets from a pistol on the pretext of returning the family’s so-called honor. |
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Why does a woman sell her body?
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By Lava Khaled
Translated by:Suzan abadi
21-11- 2009
She finds herself in a house empty of everything except poverty, disease, a drunken father who boozes day and night, a disturbed brother, and a mother who needs kidney dialysis every week. She has no one to look after her, although she’s young and innocent--how can she afford to live in this city under such difficult circumstances?
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When Salma is Loved... She is Killed
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Messoud Akko
Translated by: Rouba khadamaljamei
Salma was murdered by her brother a few hours after Mr. President, Bashar Al Assad, had issued the decree No /27/ 1,7,2009, which annuls article No. /548/ from the penal law concerning honor crimes. The above-mentioned article has been replaced by the following wording: "the one who catches his wife, or one of his own ascendants or descendants or his sister committing the felony of witnessed adultery, or who catches her in lewd sexual intercourses with another person, and he murders or hurts both of them, or undeliberately caused any harm to any one of them, this person may benefit from the extenuating excuse, provided that the punishment should not be less than two years of imprisonment if a murder has been committed". |
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Teenager raped by taxi driver in Damascus
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and then by several other men before finding help.
By Mais Naief Krydee
Translated by: Girgis Kalzi
In a society surrounded by corruption, and where culture and thought is fast becoming extinct, what was the future ever likely to hold for a young girl testing the cold Damascene nights? How did she manage to encounter people with no mercy, or principles or ethics? |
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Iraqi Women in Syria: Toil without Reward
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By: Malek Abo khair
‘My couch has been come my entire world and everything I know’ says Fatima, an Iraqi doctor who has for the last three years resided in Damascus. ‘All the hopeful dreams and ambitions of the past are today more like a grave nightmare weighing down my wearisome teary eyes.’ I ask her of her how she has coped with the new circumstances imposed upon her; how her life has unfolded under the shadow of what she experienced before and since arriving in Syria. |
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A Family’s Story after an Honour Crime
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By: Amer Murad
Translated by: Namir Shabibi
The only intention in waging war against the many rotten and obsolete customs in our society is to combat their negative effects, which in many cases lead to the destruction of its participants. Of these practices, honour crimes are widespread in our society. The practice itself is the manifestation of an archaic idea which solely concerns itself with protecting the respective group’s interests, even if the result is the complete destruction of families. |
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Her Story
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Dreams Waiting To Be Realized
By: Obada Takla
Translator: Namir Shabibi
After 15 years I will get that divorce! When my daughter is 17 years old, this foetus inside me will finally become an adolescent, I will never hesitate to tell her the full details of my story. I will begin with those years in which I was still a teenager, 13 years old in fact, and the oldest girl in a liberal family which didn’t shackle its children with a list of ‘don’ts’. |
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Teenage Counseling Session
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By Noor Basmajeh
Translated by Schadi Semnani
We watch foreign films containing the sexual molestation of children and continue to act surprised and thank God that we do not live in those kinds of societies, but what we don't realize is that our Arab societies are full of stories of sexual molestation of children, especially incest. Victims of such abuses don't dare tell their stories, so the wound and secret remain. "No see, no hear". |
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I’m a Prostitute… and I’m Proud
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Why should I feel ashamed when everybody is engaging in adultery?
Malek Abu Khair
Translated by Namir Shabibi
With the single move of your finger, she comes quickly to you, like to ring to do with it what you wish, throwing her body on the bed you choose without hesitation, so long as you offer the next morning what suffices to keep her family alive and feed them what they haven’t had in a while. You see her moving between customers, receiving repugnant words from one, touches from another, without saying one word or appearing annoyed. |
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Teenage Counseling Session -2-
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By Noor Basmajeh
Translated by Schadi Semnani
In the first part of the counseling session with a group of teenage girls, a few of them recounted their experiences with being molested during their childhood. L.R. told her painful story of having been molested by her teenage cousin more than once and this encouraged others to speak up as well. A.Z. also talked about how one of her relatives molested her repeatedly. Today we continue the truth circle with these brave women who have decided to break the silence which has burdened them for so many years.
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