In 2005, British travel writer Diana Darke bought an Ottoman-era courtyard house in the Old City of Damascus. One of the only foreigners to own property in the Roman-walled center of Syria’s ...

The narrow streets of Old Damascus are home to ancient ... The entrance of a Damascene house opens up to a central courtyard with a fountain, which masks outside noises and in summer helps cool ...

The Jewish Quarter of Damascus is located in the old city. There were 50,000 Jews ... was an opulent Damascene courtyard house owned by the Tuta family from the mid-19th to early 20th century.