Go, Read: Ali Ferzat In The Independent This profile from Monday on the Syrian cartoonist and gallery owner Ali Ferzat isn't by itself one of the better pieces about the now-celebrated symbol of resistance to political suppression, but it contains an intriguing contextual shift. It looks like Ferzat himself is portraying his 2011 beating at the hands of pro-government thugs less as a flash of circumstance brought about by the Arab Spring but as an inevitable action brought about by years of political grinding following the Damascus Spring of the early '00s. He also says the conflict is over as soon as people begin to resist, which I hope turns out to be true in as many was as is possible.
