ALEPPO, Syria — Swaddled in white towels, the Mansour and Wafai families sat in an arched alcove of Aleppo's Bab Al-Ahmar public bathhouse, reviving their once-weekly tradition after years of war in Syria.
With steamy stone rooms, masseurs and (...)
ALEPPO — The pencil minaret of the Ottoman Adliyeh mosque in Syria's Aleppo lists to one side and is scored by an ugly gash running down its flank, the result of bombing in the war.
The sorry state of Aleppo's Old City, a labyrinthine World Heritage (...)
A MANTLE of gold smothers Aleppo's ruins, hiding the rubble and filling the craters with wild flowers that for a moment seem to transform a landscape scarred by war, destruction and death.
After an unusually wet winter, the warm days of spring have (...)
The gentle clicking of Sheikh Abu Samir's prayer beads as he lounged against a bolster in his camel-hair tent evoked the wilderness of Saudi Arabia's desert, not a dusty camel market beside a Riyadh motorway.
The Kingdom's Bedouin might have (...)
