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Latakia, (ST) - The judicial complex in the city of Al-Haffah in the countryside of Lattakia is back in service after completing the process of repairing operations of th...
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SANA reporter in Deir Ezzor said that...
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HAVANA, (ST)- Syria's Ambassador to Cuba Idris...
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Hasaka, (ST): A woman was wounded when the US-...
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Aleppo (ST): The first Syrian plane arrived at...
It has become known that terrorism and most of...
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Samir Ali Al-AhmadSamir was born on the eighth...
Latakia, (ST) - The judicial complex in the city of Al-Haffah in the countryside of Lattakia is back in service after completing the process of repairing operations of th...
He was applauded a year ago in Damascus Opera House in more than a concert with a thousand marvelous notes ... We find him today with renewed pleasure, even more exquisit...
Over the past years, Syria’s tourism sector has suffered severe blows as a result of the terrorist war and the coercive measures imposed on the country. Great efforts have been exerted over the past period by the Syrian government and the civil society to recover tourism and restore its role as one of the pillars of national economy. Within this framework, the Ministry of Tourism intensified its efforts during 202...
Read moreSyrian cartoonist Murhaf Yousef won the first prize in the 12th International Oscar Festival in Croatia. Yousef cartoons portray the terrible distribution of resources among the peoples and the how the powerful dominate the weak . More than 220 cartoonists from 49 countries participated in the Festival. Basma Qaddour
Read moreHoms, (ST) - The “Contribute with Us” initiative launched by the “Steadfast despite the Wounds” association in Homs last April reflected the importance of solidarity and cooperation among members of the society. The initiative is based on providing medicine to the families of the martyrs, the wounded of the Syrian Arab Army, and the needy, free of charge, through a pharmacy that is supplied with medicines by donors.
Read moreSyria has renewed its call on the Security Council to act immediately as to enforce the implementation of the Resolution No. 497 of 1981 and force the Israeli occupation entity to stop its illegal settlement activities and repressive procedures against the people in the occupied Syrian Golan and to withdraw from the entire Golan to the June 4th 1967 line. Resolution 497 (1981) reaffirms that the acquisition of ter...
Read moreBorn in 1912, to a traditional Damascene family, Ulfat Idilbi was a Syrian novel writer. She wrote books that became best sellers in the Arabic-speaking world, such as "Dimashq ya Basmat el Huzn" ("Damascus - the Smile of Sadness", 1980), which was translated into many languages and filmed as "Basmat al Huzn".
Idilbi educated herself by reading widely from the books in the library of her uncle, Kazem Daghestani, who was also an author. Then Ulfat began to write and publish stories about the Syrian resistance movement(during the French mandate) especially regarding the injustice of the aggressor and people who were involved in a struggle for their lives, freedom and the independence of their country (which was already exhausted by rule of Ottoman Empire).
Later she became a lecturer and wrote novels and essays on the social status of women in the Middle East, as well as on the pressure they undergo and the suffering they endure. Ulfat emphasized the theme of women often spending time in their own, non-existent world.
"Damascus, The Smile Of Sadness" is the most famous novel by Ulfat Idilbi, telling a story about a girl who grows up in times of nationwide chaos (1920s), caused by the French occupation. She becomes more conscious of her national identity, which is hardly supported by her family, who is conservative and does not allow Sabriya to leave the house except to go to school. The story tells of the injustices and deprivations she undergoes, caused both by the French occupiers and by her family, along with the loss of her beloved and her vow never to forget him. It's been read as left by Sabriyeh (main character) in her diary, found after her death.
The film depicts an agonizing episode of Syrian women's struggle to gain emancipation and gender equality
Under many circumstances, most of aspects included are author's vision of reality, which Ulfat was a witness to, therefore should be considered as dramatized history.
She spent the last decades of her life between Damascus and Paris, where she died in 2007.
Maysa Wassouf