Romantique 2011

I admit that it took me a minute to choose few words before spending two million seconds pondering upon them. I was biased to the emotional nudge that was missing from the scene, a twist in the news, but the circumstances were so dire, nay, they detached our souls from ourselves. We still live in an ugly reality. Here we are talking about the cover. It implies that our situations are based on romantic yet logical acts. The title includes a specific date; 2011, the year of the Syrian...
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I admit that it took me a minute to choose few words before spending two million seconds pondering upon them. I was biased to the emotional nudge that was missing from the scene, a twist in the news, but the circumstances were so dire, nay, they detached our souls from ourselves. We still live in an ugly reality. Here we are talking about the cover. It implies that our situations are based on romantic yet logical acts. The title includes a specific date; 2011, the year of the Syrian dramatic change, when the regime faced peaceful demonstrations with brutality and violence.A description like that can shock those who live through a crisis, nevertheless we need shocks to push us strongly towards love.In this way, I tried to hook the reader just like a breath-taking trailer that announces a romantic scene, or rather a shocking declaration of a lost love in desolation and corpses. The listing of the contest happened mainly as a rebellion against concepts brought to light by criminal mentality, paving the way for the war that is consuming my country and making us, the Syrian people, the fuel that anyone can ignite.The script points, in many parts, at the role of the intelligence institutions which manipulated people by tackling their principals and believes by using what was established by the spontaneity of the peaceful demonstrations that were carried out by the demonstrators. Which created a void amongst activists, a void was filled by the official death battalions who have the needs to run more than one war against a society that stands strongly against it.The narration here comes in doses of fear, the fear of what the coming days are hiding from us, even though we have been dying slowly for years.Time here is lost and unknown. The enemy has run out of all reasoning tools in both politics and war. A reality imposed by international reality, resulting in a willful catastrophic confusion. Therefore, those who have a nationalist project were welcomed to tear Syria apart. They realized this dream by refuting Jihadi projects with the same strategy of the regime, namely, manipulating the world and linking those who oppose him to extremist groups.The whole world realizes that those kinds of projects are orchestrated by parties overseas.Since the very beginning, everything went well with a comic scene written by the regime. This scene then turns into chaos in a place that started to produce monsters by using various tools, such as those who we once thought of as our patriot brothers. If it weren't for them, the Syrian issue would not have turned from a peaceful pursuit to construct a civil and fair state that guarantees diversity and freedom, into a bloodbath made possible by nations' councils and organizations.Despite all that, will Syria ever be able to rise again? Will its people ever recover from the psychological damage?I have no answer. The others are also aware of the catastrophe's magnitude, especially when the UN falls short on holding the perpetrators accountable for their crimes.At the same time, I believe that we can rise from our ashes and make up for our cultural and cognitive loss. We also need to learn from this experience, so we can rebuild our country, our freedom, and ourselves. I would like to say that Romantique 2011 is like a talking camera. It shot all it could shoot before falling off and smashing into pieces. People in its pictures got out and went on telling some of their stories. The script refers to the pure, both alive and perished ones, those who made the greatest revolution in history against an evil criminal system that colonized the society and the country for decades and sealed its black charter while destroying the land and its people. October 2017 MünchenAhmad Sleiman: A Syrian author and poet.