Among the hundreds of photos, videos and publications that accompanied the liberation of Syria, I was struck by the photo of the last meeting that brought together the new Syrian leadership, represented by Commander Ahmed al-Sharaa, with the leaders of the Turkish state, represented by its Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, on Mount Qasioun. As a Yemeni, I was bombarded with a number of questions.

In uncivilized societies there are many oppressive and censorship authorities - whether political, religious or cultural - but for a society to build an invisible censorship authority over itself, an authority of tongue and reputation that fears its attacks as if it were a spy camera that no individual in society is safe from seeing.

I read an article by the Egyptian journalist and writer Wael Qandil in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed titled “Arabs after Sinwar and Nasrallah.” From the first line, he puts Sinwar and Haniyeh, “the leaders of the Palestinian cause,” on the same level of status as Hassan Nasrallah, “the leader of transnational sectarianism” and one of the main reasons that led to the collapse and destruction of the Arab Spring in more than one country, including Yemen through the counter-revolution represented by the Houthi coup in September 2014, or Syria through enabling the Assad regime to brutalize the revolution since 2011.

There are clear paradoxes in the three scenes: Riad al-Asaad represents the movement that witnessed the reality of the armed Syrian revolution, starting from the establishment of the Free Army, until its expansion in the first years and until its defeat after the Russian intervention. Al-Asaad’s awareness, morals and vision provided complete and total recognition of the credit for the victory of the next generation of revolutionaries, i.e. Operation Deterrence of Aggression and the Salvation Government.

The political forces have had many experiences of failure, but unfortunately they have not learned. They also always stand in the way of the progress movement with hesitation, trembling, free concessions, and mistakes in the terms of the settlements, which have cost the country a lot.

I turned on the radio and my ears were drawn to the Houthis’ control of radio broadcasting in 2018. That day, I wrote an article about my memories with the radio and I was shy. Others would see me as a traditional person who was out of touch with the developments that the world was witnessing.. someone who clung to the radio in the manner of our ancestors.