Check out Elijah’s post from Damascus. I love Damascus, having lived there in the mid-1990s, and he gets a lot of the things about it right. Even if Syria is largely depressing, it’s a fantastic country and people. And even better than Damascus is Aleppo. Both cities have a “den of spies” 1950s feel to them, which may or may not be because up to a quarter of the population informs the mukhabarat…
See the full set of Damascus pics.
Hey – those are my two favorite Syrian cities, too! Of course, they’re the only ones I’ve been to.
I would say Aleppo probably is my favorite city in the whole Middle East. Maybe.