Economy & Aftermath

Life returns to normal to the ancient w…
Aleppo (ST): Day after day, life returns to normal to the archaeological markets in the old city of Aleppo after rehabilitating and renovating them following the damage a...
Baghdad (ST): An explosive device...
Hasaka (ST): Hasaka City Council ran a number...
Damascus (ST): Patriarch Mar Ignatius Ephraim...
Deir Ezzour (ST): Within the framework of its...
Occupied Jerusalem (ST): Palestinian Prime...
Aleppo (ST): Day after day, life returns to...
Ankara (ST): The Turkish regime authorities...
Occupied Jerusalem (ST): Israeli occupation...
Hama (ST): A military source affirmed...
Homs, (ST)- After losing dear parts of...
The Aramean kingdoms in Syria , mainly “...
Ankara (ST): Member of the Turkish parliament...
Tehran (ST): Iranian Minister of Transport,...
Hama (ST): The air defence forces in the Syrian...
Najla Burghul a Syrian dreamer who...
DARAA, (ST)_ More than 40 displaced families,...
HASAKA, RAQQA, (ST)_ At least 2 gunmen ...
MOSCOW, (ST)_Russian Foreign Ministry has...
The Directorate-General of Antiquities and...
Aleppo (ST): Day after day, life returns to normal to the archaeological markets in the old city of Aleppo after rehabilitating and renovating them following the damage a...
With the participation of 34 beekeepers from the public and private sectors, the activities of the second Syrian Honey Festival were launched on the grounds of Al-Jalaa S...
Tartous, (ST)-The quiet village of Bnamra is embraced by mountains of ancient oak trees, in the midst of a charming nature as freshwater springs burst from its tops which makes the village look like an emerald. According to the village mayor, Muhammad Ahmad Shaheen, Bnamra is within the municipality of Sheikh Badr in Tartous. It spreads over an area of about two thousand dunums. The village was named so due to its...
Read moreWith the participation of more than 252 cartoonists from 52 countries around the world, the Arab Writers Union held its first international cartoons exhibition in a new way which dealt with the role of international figures who influenced the literary and cultural movement. The visions of the participating cartoonists' paintings differed in the technique of drawing, but what they all had in common was that they they revealed the impact ...
Read moreHoms, (ST)- After losing dear parts of their bodied in the battles of honor they waged against the enemies of life, they did not lose their love of life, rather they insisted in playing the melody of life with the rest of their bodies . The studio is a modest room with simple components located in the Zahra neighborhood of Homs, where the “Jareeh Studio” band members, under the supervision of its young founder Tha'er Balloul, meet to tr...
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...
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Today, my memory returned to the time when I held the pen for the first time. I began to draw unknown and meaningless things expressing what I felt but I did not really know what they were.
Overlapping lines that darken the white paper and many directives urging me to hold the pen in a good way characterized the beginnings of my writing. I knew how to hold the pen and write. I knew the value of what I write when I worked in the press and the people read my words. I experienced a new world and a new life when I started working in the Syria Times Newspaper. I wrote for the sake of writing, not because of studying and memorizing, knowing that people will read what I wrote and this makes me very happy.
The most beautiful days of my life were spent during my work in the newspaper, but my happiness did not last because our newspaper was, due to technical reasons, closed on June 8 2008.
So once again, I began to write and notify my words on my pages to read them alone.
Fortunately, after a period of time, our dear daily was re-launched again. It was on October 6 2012 at the directive of the Syrian Minister of Information, Mr. Omran
al-Zou'bi. I was very happy when I received the good news. So from now on my pen will write news and articles which will be read by people all over the world.
When I knew that the newspaper will be re-launched via the web, I was very sad and I felt that my joy will not be completed. I used to read a lot of publications through the Internet during the past few years, but I consider that my relationship with the paper is stronger and more intimate
I was so sad, but when I think about it, I realized that a lot of people do not read the "paper copy" of the newspapers, any more, they, instead take the news and all the information they want from the Internet.
I don't really know whether our feelings and emotions can be expressed deeper and more truthful across the internet than on paper. What I really know is that my love to paper and pen exceeds my love for any thing else. It is true that the e- publishing has larger number of readers and spread wider but paper will not lose its intimacy and warmth.
Writing at the beginning was nothing but images and forms painted on rocks and walls of the caves and on large stones .Writing has evolved to be written in letters of special type such as the Cuneiform writing. When man invented papers the relationship between man and papers and ink continues for thousands of years.
From the beginning, the beautiful script is the basic means that distinguishes writers and the sanctity of writing, makes it restricted to a small number of people or priests or temples.
At present, I feel as if time were repeating itself. In the electronic publishing we read from a hard and lifeless object is but a different kind, as writing is changed.
"You must keep pace with the civilization of electronic publishing, as they say, and that you have to have your own computer to read what the other write". It is true that if you own the tools and technology of modern age, you can find thousands, even millions of publications now, but you will never have that kind of privacy that paper-writing can give .You have the right to own what you read and keep it in the libraries that adorn the homes of a large number of our fathers. One may say that he who owns the money was luckier to read more and to learn more. Now, during the internet age, science and knowledge have become more common and more prevalent. It is true, but the smell of paper and ink and the aesthetic of the printed characters will remain my greatest love.
Amal Farhat