A Woman in the Crossfire by Samar Yazbek

Author:Samar Yazbek
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908323149
Publisher: Haus Publishing

9 June 2011

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Not far from the territory where the monsters live, underneath the cracked urban sidewalks that are pounded by stumbling, angry feet that have never skipped for joy, there was a faint thin thread, a red winding string swallowed up by the asphalt.

The woman watching the novelist promised she would never again dare to bring her man a suitcase containing a red rose, not even in secret.

The woman who has become another, sitting somewhere inaccessible inside my fingers, also vowed not to sleep more than three hours per day. That was no figure of speech. I decided to sleep three hours without sleeping pills, a monumental achievement which would require a major effort. What helped me were my constant movement and the enormous quantity of food I resorted to eating before going to sleep. But it all seemed like a waste – I gained weight but couldn’t gain any more sleep.

Recently I have been meeting with women in order to set up a ‘Syrian Women in Support of the Uprising’ initiative, which requires meetings and action. The aim of this group was to provide the demonstrators with all the support they need, particularly emergency care for the wounded and cover for the young men of the coordination committees who have been forced into hiding as a result of being pursued by the security forces. Additionally, some of the young people have formed a secular group. There are many different actions, especially among the young people who are not satisfied with some of the well-known names in the opposition. They believe the time had come to revitalize the spirit of the opposition. Everyone is active and resisting in his or her own way. Some young people work with the coordination committees in the suburbs of Damascus, others organize the demonstrations; women also organize demonstrations. The issue is no longer which actions we carry out, because the popular uprising is following the same course all over the country. This is an uprising of the countryside, an uprising of poverty and a protest against all forms of injustice. The murder the authorities always relied upon has been transformed into a daily massacre. The time for dialogue has passed, yet the regime comically calls for more dialogue. Some big names in the opposition responded at first, so that the country might avoid further bloodshed, but now more than ever, the domestic opposition refuses to convene any dialogue. Every day the regime commits another massacre, and the number of those killed at the hands of the security forces, the shabbiha and the army increases. The cities are being taken over, besieged, bombarded by aircraft – Jisr al-Shughur and before it Dar‘a and Homs. How can we possibly have a dialogue with them? This is the most important question running through the meetings I have been diligently attending with figures from the opposition. There is no solution other than the fall of the regime. The regime does not want reform or any other solution. The

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