Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
This Syrian man enjoying music while surrounded by rubble
was captured in a photo that is resonating with many people.
It was a picture perfectly framed by a war: a 70-year-old man in socks and sandals, smoking a pipe beside an old record player, in the gray-dusted ruins of his bedroom in Aleppo.
The world has followed Syria's long civil war through viral images. Even so, after six years of bombings and atrocities and dead children, rebel surges and army advances, a single still frame of an old man on a bed stirred something deep in many people, many thousands of miles away.
“A moment of tranquility amongst Hell on earth,” someone wrote on Instagram, where Agence France-Presse posted the photo Friday.
“A novel in one shot,” The Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor tweeted three days later.
The world has followed Syria's long civil war through viral images. Even so, after six years of bombings and atrocities and dead children, rebel surges and army advances, a single still frame of an old man on a bed stirred something deep in many people, many thousands of miles away.
“A moment of tranquility amongst Hell on earth,” someone wrote on Instagram, where Agence France-Presse posted the photo Friday.
“A novel in one shot,” The Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor tweeted three days later.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/14/how-one-mans-pause-became-a-haunting-symbol-of-aleppos-destruction/?utm_term=.472b10d0c3a8
3 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
