Syrian poet Fakhri Al-Baroudi once mentioned in his diary that in 1898, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife, Empress Augusta Victoria, visited Damascus. While traveling there, Empress was impressed with a white donkey that caught her eye and she asked the...
Sadio Mane is one of the superstars on the Liverpool team. His presence and exploits have seen him by Jurgen Klopp’s side at the top of the Premier League table and they are on course to break their 30-year title jinx. Mane earns approximately 10.2 million dollars...
Daraa is one of the Syrian governorates in the south of the country. The entire area is a wide plain so it’s called the Houran plain, and many great civilizations have passed through it over the centuries. Houran is characterised by fertile land; the Romans depended...
The city of Damascus is famous for its unique type of fabric, called brocade, which Damascus was famous for three thousand years ago. It takes ten hours to make one meter of damask because of the delicate, complex patterns and attention to detail. Brocade is an...