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Focused on the #history of #Damascus and #Syria, our blog covers a variety of topics including #culture, #economics, #architecture, #religion, #music and #art, #film, intellectual history, and #politics.

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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

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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

[Dimashq Journal @DimashqJournal]

Want to write for Dimashq Blog?
Focused on the #history of #Damascus and #Syria, our blog covers a variety of topics including #culture, #economics, #architecture, #religion, #music and #art, #film, intellectual history, and #politics.

Send to: [email protected]

[Dimashq Journal @DimashqJournal]

Special to Dimashq Blog | What Ramadan in Damascus looked like.

By Mohammad Sakhnini

#Damascus #Syria #History

https://t.co/jhDhKpHqGI

[Diana Darke @dianadarke]

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...

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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)

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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)

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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.

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Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli's Speech on 17 April 1946 (Independence Day).

https://t.co/ELUUzMSpDC …

#Syria #Damascus #History

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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).

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Picture: Syrian Head of State Taj al-Din al-Hasani receiving a delegation of Damascene notables in 1928.

#Syria #Damascus #History #FrenchMandateSyria

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Graduation ceremony of Syrian women from the Faculty of Law at the University of Damascus in 1951.

Photo courtesy of Tony Touma

[Dr. Éléonore Cellard @CellardEleonore]

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.

[American University of Beirut @AUB_Lebanon]

#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

[IFI at AUB @ifi_aub]

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

[IFI at AUB @ifi_aub]

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

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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 👇🏻

[Jeffrey G. Karam @JGKaram]

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Check out the program of our upcoming conference #TheMiddleEastin1958 @AUB_Lebanon @ifi_aub on March 22-23 👇🏼

Join us!