...not about politics, it's about building bridges," says May Mamarbachi, the exhibition organiser. "During the Ottoman Empire, Syria was a passage between east and west, and this khan was a focal point, where all the caravans could come and exchange their goods."...
...have to believe it is worth it. History lessons, and UN resolutions, will not convince the people who are still fearful of Syrian tanks rolling off the Heights, on their way to Tel-Aviv. That it was always Syrian territory, also before 1967, will not...
...a civilian atomic power project. For the International Atomic Energy Agency to provide such help, while it is investigating Syria, "would seem to be contradictory, if not ironic," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington. ...
...toward breaking this Mediterranean nation's diplomatic isolation. But tourists, many of them European, have been warming to Syria for some time. Part of the appeal has been the charm and relative ease of getting around in a place that hasn't turned into...
Background
Syria (Arabic: سوريا or سورية ), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية ), is a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. The modern state of Syria attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1936, but can trace its historical roots to the fourth millenium BC; its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mameluke Empire.
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