Comments for Qunfuz http://qunfuz.com Robin Yassin-Kassab Mon, 14 May 2012 14:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Assault on Ali Farzat by SYRIA : HONESTY AND SECTARIANISM | BrainsStorm http://qunfuz.com/2011/08/25/assault-on-ali-farzat/#comment-4968 Mon, 14 May 2012 14:35:00 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1725#comment-4968 [...] in the world, one who tackles universal as well as local themes. He’s also a man whose hands were broken by the [...]

]]> Comment on Taliban Poetry by anniebannie http://qunfuz.com/2012/05/14/taliban-poetry/#comment-4961 Mon, 14 May 2012 05:37:17 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1943#comment-4961 I saw an extract of the Taliban poetry and it was so telling about the life they have under occupation. Of course I pre ordered it as well as your book

]]> Comment on Glorifying Terror? by Taliban Poetry « Qunfuz http://qunfuz.com/2009/08/25/glorifying-terror/#comment-4957 Mon, 14 May 2012 00:07:39 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=385#comment-4957 [...] the 1980s an artist friend of mine made a poster for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-Islami, a militia later allied with the Taliban. The poster [...]

]]> Comment on Glorifying Terror? by Taliban poetry: the gentle, flowery side of the story? | Old News http://qunfuz.com/2009/08/25/glorifying-terror/#comment-4955 Sun, 13 May 2012 21:00:40 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=385#comment-4955 [...] the 1980s, an artist friend of mine made a poster for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-Islami, a militia later allied with the Taliban. The poster [...]

]]> Comment on Not Writing About Syria by Blogging on Syrians blogging « Syria Through the Looking Glass http://qunfuz.com/2012/04/27/not-writing-about-syria/#comment-4928 Wed, 09 May 2012 20:38:01 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1932#comment-4928 [...] this subject, Qunfuz (meaning hedgehog in Arabic) is particularly eloquent. Written by British-Syrian author Robin [...]

]]> Comment on Ramadan’s Arab Awakening by Bill Scherk http://qunfuz.com/2012/05/06/ramadans-arab-awakening/#comment-4911 Sun, 06 May 2012 18:07:07 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1938#comment-4911 If only you could have a column in a Syrian media outlet, or the means to drill a new idea into an otherwise well-defended mind.,

]]> Comment on Ramadan’s Arab Awakening by Robin Yassin-Kassab http://qunfuz.com/2012/05/06/ramadans-arab-awakening/#comment-4902 Sun, 06 May 2012 10:14:13 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1938#comment-4902 If only what, Bill?

]]> Comment on Ramadan’s Arab Awakening by Bill Scherk http://qunfuz.com/2012/05/06/ramadans-arab-awakening/#comment-4901 Sun, 06 May 2012 10:12:07 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1938#comment-4901 It is encouraging to see Ramadan loosen his corsets. Though they are by no means as tight as those of Angry Arab, and though his personal chauvism is by no means as ingrained, these corsets constrict thought. Something I try to explain to my more dunderheaded Ur-leftist friends — it is not enough to give class analysis. It is never enough to divine motives of ‘The West’ as if it were some great, stupid, lumbering individual. It is never sufficient to let one’s gloriously correct politics dictate or strongly suggest one’s conclusions about events … before the work is done.

All in all, encouraging. Now maybe some of what got into Ramadan can be put into the water or a tonic. A de-Zombification agent. An antidote to forty-plus years of ‘Resistance’ rhetoric, a rhetoric that sustained the autocracy in Tishreen Palace.

As ever, your mind is sharp, Robin. If only …

]]> Comment on Not Writing About Syria by Ahmad http://qunfuz.com/2012/04/27/not-writing-about-syria/#comment-4869 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:53:09 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1932#comment-4869 Love you Robin….. Thanks….

]]> Comment on Not Writing About Syria by Maysaloon : dialogue with Qunfuz « band annie's Weblog http://qunfuz.com/2012/04/27/not-writing-about-syria/#comment-4858 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:45:38 +0000 http://qunfuz.com/?p=1932#comment-4858 [...] on his blog, Qunfuz expresses so well what I have felt for months: But the written word, and in English – [...]

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