Ella Barry’s Reviews > We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria > Status Update
Ella Barry
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“I have a cousin who didn’t support protest. He’d say, ‘This isn’t the right time. There’s no preparation. We’re not organized.’ My response was that the regime was going to prevent us from organizing forever.”
Revolutions are terrifying! Starting a revolution is so scary. Do I want a revolution to happen? Yes. Do I want to start it? No.
— Mar 25, 2025 06:56PM
Revolutions are terrifying! Starting a revolution is so scary. Do I want a revolution to happen? Yes. Do I want to start it? No.
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Ella’s Previous Updates
Ella Barry
is on page 114 of 290
“Sometimes someone died at night and we couldn’t bury him until the morning. Because of the electricity cuts, we might not have ice to put on his body. The smell would be terrible.
There was a man called Jaber and his mission was to go around and find ice from other people in the city […] then Jaber was killed, and we couldn’t find any ice for him.”
— Mar 27, 2025 12:33PM
There was a man called Jaber and his mission was to go around and find ice from other people in the city […] then Jaber was killed, and we couldn’t find any ice for him.”
Ella Barry
is on page 89 of 290
“Before the revolution […] Syria was just the place where I lived, but it didn’t belong to me. When the revolution began, I discovered that Syria was my country. As Kurds, we thought we were oppressed and others favored by the regime. After the revolution we discovered that we were all suffering the same oppression […] we had not been working together, and that is how the regime was able to dominate us.”
— Mar 25, 2025 08:35PM
Ella Barry
is on page 19 of 290
On his time in prison: “You miss everything that is beautiful and you experience everything that is ugly. In eight years I didn’t see a tree.”
— Mar 23, 2025 07:52PM
