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Trip for Eid al ul-Adha
(Jan 18 '06)
"I was being my usual naïve friendly self and talking to strangers on the bus when I think I stumbled upon the wrong crowd"
Ya that’s right, I flew! The long wait is over! At 7:10 this morning, or @ 7:10 last night your time, I was crew on a flight to Damascus, Syria. Really not that interesting as I didn’t ...
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Summary of Syria
(Apr 09 '04)
As with Lebanon, my expectations for modern Syria were fairly limited and colored mainly by press accounts of the Syrian army's activities during the Lebanese civil war and ongoing accusations ...
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Damascus
(Aug 11 '07)
We had a couple of days in Damascus, but we preferred our nice camping ground with green grass to the dirty, smelly city. We went into visit the Umayyad Mosque, which was originally a Byzantine ...
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All Roads to Damascus
(Aug 18 '07)
Damascus is Syria's capital and is reportedly the oldest continuously inhabited town in the world's history. As a supposed 'Axis of Evil' according to the American's I wasn't surprised when we were ...
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ajibani as-sham!
(May 21 '08)
Damascus is cool.
I study Arabic at jamiyaat damashq and I live in al-midan, close to al-mujtahid hospital. I have enjoyed my (brief) trip thus far.
I'm just using this blog for pictures, ...
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The Start
(Sep 23 '05)
Day 2
(Oct 05 '06)
I'm going to like this town!
(Apr 03 '04)
On our drive into Damascus, I quickly noticed that we passed a lot of ice cream shops and pastry shops. Nothing will endear me to a city faster than easy access to sweets!\161\177\193\211 ...
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Armenian Massacre of 1915-18
(Apr 07 '04)
Today we stopped at the small shrine to the Armenian massacre in the otherwise undistinguished town of Deir ez-Zor. How an atrocity of this magnitude can be so quickly forgotten is a sad comment on ...
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