I walked around Aleppo all day yesterday: the souks and small workshops, 10 second cooked bread skimmed down the handle of the paddle used to put them in there and flip them, wholemeal for once and I want to try it, but lose the place, and am shy to try to negotiate the price of a [...]
I went to some ruins this morning early. A 2km broken collonade of romanity lost, a museum with high posted posters of Bashir al-Assad, opened in November ‘82, by Hafaz al-Assad. 9 months after the destruction of most of old Hama by goverment troops after an uprising by The Muslim Brotherhood, a militant organisation. Many [...]