Ask my Christian friends and they quote Isaiah 17:1: “Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.” Note the language. It does not talk about destruction.

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons in the outskirts of Damascus and President Barack Obama mulls a U.S. response, some theologians are hoping for an alarming endgame to the ...

In this heap of dust, nothing remains, ... Two residents of Qaboun carry wood among the ruins in Damascus on December 15, 2024. ABDULMONAM EASSA FOR LE MONDE. On March 15, ...

The interior of Mar Elias Church in Dweila, a poor Christian neighbourhood of Damascus, lies in ruins. Religious icons have ...

Eastern Damascus in ruins Jobar district ruined as a result of clashes between Assad forces and Free Syrian Army. 15.07.2013 - Update : 15.07.2013 . DAMASCUS.

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus suburb, where the violence and painful memories of the past are being unearthed.

The great 10th century Iraqi poet Abu Tayyib al-Mutanabbi once lived, O fated city, in the Emirate of Aleppo. He even led a revolt in Syria which was – ...

The Jewish Quarter of Damascus is located in the old city. There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the beginning of the 20th ...

Before civil war erupted in his homeland, Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez, who lives and works in New Haven, coped with his homesickness by building models of old Damascus. Now he pores over images ...

As a teen-ager, Hafez would wander the streets of Damascus’s Old City—sketchbook in hand—drawing its ancient arches, porticoes, and doorways with their Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, and ...