New York Times: Syria’s Spreading Bloodshed

At least 110,000 people have died in Syria’s civil war. Here, as anywhere, fighters are glorified in death. Abdulqader Saleh was the commander of the Al Tawhid Brigade, which led the rebel victory in Aleppo … Saleh died in a hospital days before I arrived in Tripoli; his martyrdom photo was posted to Twitter.

These images are framed like Instagram selfies, but corpses have no selves — the dead exist as projections by the living. See how beautiful they are, these photos say. Be righteous like them.

— Syria’s Spreading Bloodshed in The New York Times

2 thoughts on “New York Times: Syria’s Spreading Bloodshed”

  3. Dan Van Cura

    Took a copy for my classroom door. Was wondering if it is just scribble or does it make a statement in Arabic?

  4. Dan Van Cura

    Took a copy for my classroom door. Was wondering if it is just scribble or does it make a statement in Arabic?

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