February 16, 2025
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Remember Omar Aziz!
16 – 02 – 2025
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To understand history we must position ourselves within it. To remember those who fell in the struggle for a better tomorrow is about the individual but also so much more. Perhaps as Omar would have put it; it’s about humans.
These are texts by Syrian revolutionaries, activists, intellectuals, anarchists, as well as interviews with such. Initially compiled in 2022, it has been updated and comes with renewed relevance due to the collapse of Assad regime at the end of 2024.
120 pages, where the next chapter is still unwritten.
This reader is a compilation of 22 texts about the Syrian revolution. There is a common focus of the Western left, to which the editors count themselves, on North & Eastern Syria, the liberated area also called Rojava. Other parts of the struggle in this region have been widely sidelined. This has been criticised by many of the authors in this reader. Thus, it is an attempt to spread the views, ideas and efforts of revolutionary people in West and South Syria.
Except chapter 20, written by the editors of the reader, the other texts have been published on websites, online archives and magazines before. The authors and interviewees have different approaches, views, and backgrounds. Readers are explicitly welcome to keep adding to and changing this compilation and spread it.
Who is Omar Aziz?
He was born in Damascus, but had to leave to in Saudi Arabia and later US. He returned from exile in the early days of the Syrian revolution.
An intellectual, economist, anarchist, husband and father. At the age of 63 committed himself to the revolutionary struggle.
Here you can find more about him and his writtings.