New Call for Papers from Dimashq Journal!
Send in your abstract (500 words max) to [email protected] by December 31, 2019.
For more information on publication guidelines visit: https://t.co/7RXT7hxh8V
New Call for Papers from Dimashq Journal!
Send in your abstract (500 words max) to [email protected] by December 31, 2019.
For more information on publication guidelines visit: https://t.co/7RXT7hxh8V
Notre-Dame's architectural design, like all Gothic cathedrals in Europe, comes directly from #Syria's Qalb Lozeh 5th century church - Crusaders brought the 'twin tower flanking the rose window' concept back to Europe in the 12th century. It's is #Idlib province, still standing...
Dimashq Blog | On The Road with C. E. S. Palmer
Political unrest, Christian missions and commercial opportunities: a British diplomat's journey from #Baghdad to #Damascus in 1923.
By Fadi Esber
https://t.co/f7FTgjEhZi
Image: Homs in the early 20th century (@librarycongress)
Dimashq Blog | On The Road with C. E. S. Palmer
Political unrest, Christian missions and commercial opportunities: a British diplomat's journey from #Baghdad to #Damascus in 1923.
By Fadi Esber
https://t.co/f7FTgjEhZi
Image: Homs in the early 20th century (@librarycongress)
Schoolgirls in white came up to the podium and presented the guests with Damascene flowers, followed by representatives of each Syrian province, giving the president a small silk sack, filled with the soil of each Syrian city. Collectively the guests raised the Flag of Syria.
A spectacular military parade was held on Beirut Street, which started with seven soldiers, holding seven Arab flags (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine).
| The Damascus History Foundation archive |
Picture: Syrian Head of State Taj al-Din al-Hasani receiving a delegation of Damascene notables in 1928.
#Syria#Damascus#History#FrenchMandateSyria
Thread. The Qur’āns from the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
1/6. As other mosques, the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus had a place for keeping old mss. In the last decades of the 19th, some 200.000 folios of Qur’ans were stored in the bayt al-māl, called "Dome of the bibles" on the pic.
#AUBNews: International conference on the Middle East in 1958: A reexamination of the past for an understanding of the present and future. #AUB@ifi_aub
Full Article: https://t.co/5PQ8Z46WBC
Fadi Esber, founding associate of @DimashqJournal focused on the Syrian side of 1958 identifying key events that shaped political life in #Syria between independence from France to the merger with #Egypt analyzing the motives of different political parties #TheMiddleEastin1958
Opening Remarks of #TheMiddleEastin1958 with @DrFadloKhuri, Rayan el Amine, @JGKaram and Samer Frangie.
Join us at IFI Auditorium or watch us live on: https://t.co/k0vxJne5ur
Check out the program of the upcoming conference #TheMiddleEastin1958@AUB_Lebanon@ifi_aub on March 22-23.
Includes a presentation titled 'No Turning Back: Syria and the 1958 Watershed' by Fadi Esber, founding associate at the Damascus History Foundation.
Full program 👇🏻