The Director of the Old City of Damascus, Engineer Muhammad Rashad ... the Roman Arch of Victory, and Bab Sharqi. We mention here the rest of the gates of Damascus on the perimeter of its ...

Bars in the Christian areas of Damascus have been on high alert ... Juice bottles adorn the windows of bars on the old streets of Bab Sharqi in the Syrian capital. Instead of bottles of whisky ...

On the east end of Old Damascus in Bab Sharqi — one of seven Roman gates of the Old City— there’s a strip of new bars lining the historic street known as Mustaqim, or the Straight Street.

No place in Damascus tells the story of the city more eloquently than the Omayyad Mosque in Old Damascus ... mostly in the Bab Sharqi area, are open. Pick-pocketing is rare, but make sure your ...

DAMASCUS—On a weekday in mid-August ... and the services industry is booming. In Bab Sharqi, a neighborhood in the old city, at least a dozen bars have opened over the last eight months.

Damascus, SANA – Damascus Old City restaurants located in its ancient neighborhoods of Bab Sharqi , al-Qeimariya, al-Amara, Bab Touma, al-Qashla and al-Amin have always been a glamorous tourist ...

Like Saul of Tarsus, I greatly anticipated my arrival in Damascus, an ancient city even ... through the Bab Sharqi (Eastern Gate). Then I walked around the outside edge of the old city walls ...

Shells were hitting Damascus's city center late last year, including near Bab Sharqi gate ... more recently," said Nicolas Rahal, a 23-year-old graphic designer, speaking over loud music in ...

DAMASCUS— Pro-regime community defense groups are springing up in Damascus, as areas with large populations of religious or other minorities seek to repel a conflict lapping ever closer to them.