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DAMASCUS- President Bashar al-Assad gave the following interview to Addounia TV on the local and regional developments: Dear viewers of Addounia TV… greetings, We greet you from the People's Palace in the Syrian capital of Damascus. We are…

Last week, a small crew of 37signals folk headed to Portland for the XOXOfestival. It was a high-speed joyride of creative spirit, and it might have permanently changed my outlook on making stuff. Here are a few of the morsels that will…

The Executive Director of Zakat Foundation of America (ZF), Halil Demir, was recognized on Feb. 18 for his Emergency Relief work in Syria by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). The award was presented to Mr. Demir at the SAMS 2012…

John Terry is "positive and upbeat" as the Football Association hearing into accusations he used racist language towards QPR defender Anton Ferdinandenters a third day. Chelsea assistant boss Eddie Newton made the assessment of Terry's…

In 1997, Iraqi-American producer Mark Gergis first heard the music of Syria-born Omar Souleyman. The fast-paced dabke sound was emanating from a cassette kiosk in Damascus and Gergis, a self-described “archivist of international…

'Good lady, are you absolutely sure you are not more hungered?'  Our waiter peered anxiously at us, before energetically slapping his belly in case we didn't understand. Unfortunately, in Syrian culture, refusal of food is taken as a polite…

Syria became one of the best tourism destination, receiving about 4.5 million Arab and foreign tourists in 2008, said an official report.The report, issued by the Syrian Tourism Ministry, said that tourism in Syria grew 15% compared to…

When French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited here in September after hosting Syrian President Bashar Assad earlier in Paris, he went a long way toward breaking this Mediterranean nation's diplomatic isolation.   But tourists, many of…

Having survived thousands of years of successive civilizations from the Egyptians, Greco-Romans, Muslims, Crusaders, Mongols, Ottomans and French to the modern Arab era, Damascus is one of the most resilient and historic cities on Earth.…

It is more than 900 years since the Crusaders captured Krak des Chevaliers overlooking the valleys of central Syria – lugging blocks of limestone up the steep hillside to build a fortress that still looks pretty impregnable – so lunch…