Tweeting Syria

[ by Charles Cameron — an exchange from Easter Sunday ]

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Emile Hokayem is Senior Fellow for Regional Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The 13th century Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi‘s sermons were collected in his Fihi ma fihi.

I posted Rumi’s words in response to Hokayem, because I find his words are as apt for Syria today as they were for scholars and princes when he first spoke them. Such truths remain true always and everywhere…