Perspectives on global events — political, cultural, and human — from a Damascus vantage point.
Seven carefully chosen destinations for the solo traveler in 2026 — from Vietnam to Petra, through Georgia, Albania, Sri Lanka, Romania, and Morocco. Daily budget figures, best travel windows, and safety notes for each stop.
A contemplative and practical guide for the solo traveler — where the fear of traveling alone comes from, how to turn it into fuel, and the best instant translation apps and planning tools for 2026.
Today, power in the Islamic Republic passed from a father to his son. The strange part is that this republic was built on rejecting exactly that. But the strangest part is that the loudest voice against this inheritance belongs to the son of the king that same revolution overthrew. This is not just an Iranian crisis — it is a question about human nature itself.
The executioner always needed a justification — a story to tell
himself before sleep. Mamdouh Adwan mapped this with painful
precision in “The Bestialization of Man.” But what happens when
we invent something that doesn’t sleep and needs no story?
From Colt to the machine gun, from the airplane to Oppenheimer,
to algorithms that generate 37,000 target names — a meditation
on the conscience that shrank with every new weapon, until it disappeared.
