Adonis .. to be in solidarity with a massacre and forget another

In almost compatibility, social media was filled with comments for Syrians, and Arabs also, that Adonis participated in the solidarity hosted by San Michel Square in central Paris, last Sunday, with the victims of the Syrian coast massacre. He agrees that the poet’s image is not removed from the context of his statements and statements over the past fourteen years, whether from his vast or sympathetic opponents.

A context during which huge massacres took place most of the defunct Syrian regime, and the rest of them were distributed other parties, and many of them were documented in the image and video, and these massacres did not occupy Adonis, even if in the words, but recorded in parallel to that a number of positions that have become a archives of contemporary Syrian memory, not only his rejection of the slogans of the popular protests that started on March 18, 2011 against tyranny, and places Its exit, but rather because his dictatorship is not merely a political structure, but rather a cultural and social structure, and thus rejects a revolution that only wants to bring down the ruler.

Perhaps this controversy between the owner of the “constant and the transformed” and his opponents was to be rational, or at least was rationalized, in the beginning of the revolution, but he slipped to the slope of the sharp division for various reasons, in advance of which Adonis ignored himself to his critics or the importance of dialogue with them, not careful that he releases his theories that usually conclude with conclusive rulings or provocative opinions, in a public space in which all Syrian citizens share all the citizens On their different classes and intellectual levels.

The supposed debate was established between the poet and the Syrian elites

Adonisia paradox embodied in caricatures, and a surplus of a Syrian reality that fell into the cycle of violence and extremism. On the other hand, the supposed debate was established between Adonis and the Syrian elites who supported the overthrow of Assad, and closed on an absolute hostility, bombing again with the emergence of Adonis, without neglecting a new shift imposed by the Syrian situation today.

A transformation of the conversion of many of the Syrian elites that opposed the ousted regime the massacres of the coast, warning of the reproduction of the tyranny system that has crushed the Syrians since the Baath coup in 1963, participating with Adonis the feelings and the situation. Thus, his protest in San Michel Square is a legitimate right that no one is contested, if we look at it, but this seems impossible as comments indicated on the Syrian “Time Line”, as the owners did not apply to the participation of other opponents in the same protest, including Samir Aita.

Activating memory along her torture and not a particular event

In a limited attempt to rationalize the disagreement with Adonis, some intellectuals wrote a phrase whose content indicates their solidarity with his pain and the way he expressed it, without missing his silence about the pain of his people for about a decade and a half, and his invitation at the moment of Assad falling to “changing society” and not being satisfied with changing the political system, as he stated at the time that he was always against this system, but he acknowledged that he left Syria since 1956, “I did not know. Syria, if we talk deeply! “

The need to talk deeply about Syria requires thinking carefully about the division that still takes multiple forms after the eighth of December 2024, whether in the view of the person of the new president, the structure of the current authority, or in the form of the ruling that the Syrians can agree on. A dilemma that requires another perspective to transcend, by evoking all the memories and painful accidents in a museum of Syrian memory that contains an integrated archive of pictures, recordings and documents that record a stage that lasted for more than six decades. Everyone remembers so as not to take revenge and repeat the crime.

Can the Memory Museum be created in the presence of all opponents, including Adonis? The answer requires the stimulation of memory along its torments and not to reproduce a specific event, and to build biases and passions of what corresponds to it, and that the recalls agree to condemn the crime, whatever the perpetrator and hold accountable everyone who caused it, and they will be bitten on the wound that may be lost at any moment.