Fille de Damas or "bent e sham", means a girl from Damascus. I am sharing my thoughts and impressions here, in an attempt to connect with pepole, and talk about some of the situations and problems in this place that I love. And much else..
For several reasons we are missing out or neglecting high quality local culture..
Good news for people O bore,I will not talk too much about politics in spite of London and all what is going on..I am late for that and a lot has been said allready.Recentley I saw a documentary on TV5 ( thanks to the satellite dish),it'sa french channel but the documentary was in english with french subtitles.It was called war photography, and was about an American photographer called James Nachtwey. I know little about journalists and photographer, but the documentary had some og the world's most famous and important journalists commenting on Nachwey ( like Amanpour from CNN for example).He is a legend. A mysteri. If you ever think about human brave journalism,that insist on being human first of all..Than you have to think about him. The documentary really moved me.There is so much to say..I can't tell it all, aand not at all as well. When you hear so much bad things, war, greed, violence, you get too tired after a while and need to forget it, even though I always feel really horrible about that, I even feel that I am an evil person,cause if others have to LIVE that horror, why should I be not only spared,all though I am just a human like them, but even have the luxury of not bothering and "boring" myself with the "heavey" news..Noone can understand how Nachtwey can just go on and on and on..How he finds the stregth, allthough he have encountered so many dangers. A journalist talked about the tragedies in Indonesia some years ago when different religiousor ethnic groupes attacked each other. When a very angry groupe chaseddd 3 people (just cause)belonging to a certain another religion,killed too and were chasing and hunting the third who wasrunnig for his life..on the streets. All journalists said I am not part of this,they just took pictures from safe distance. Nachtwey being him could be no else but very close, running too, and standing on both his knees and arme begging all he could so the groupe, the mob,would'nt kill this man just cause he was from that religion.Ofcourse they killed hin anyway. He talked about that with his calm mild voice, how they were hurting and chasing him like a cat do with a rat..enjoying to "play" with him like that. He also talked about Ruwanda, a place that most media, have not given enough attention. and the place that was one of the most horrible things he have seen. I coudn't beleive how low humans and humanity can sink..When the hutu ( if I remember the name correctly) were finally defeated big masses of them fled to other countries,and there so many died a horrible death by starvation. Many of those who died were the people who commited the horrors in Ruwanda, and Nachtwey commented "it was like taking the express train to hell".If you ever think that wars have nothing to do with other big misery in the world you are wrong.Hunger and poverty in the most big coomonplaces in the worlds, that Nachtwey covered very good have everything to do with it. And speaking about injustice in the world..Ofcourse Palestine was there too.In these times..London..And all other things..I realley needed to know and hear about people like Nachtwey.
Oh well..
