‘Lady Damascus’ by Brigid Keenan
Published by Beloved Syria with the permission of the author.
Lady Damascus was first published in SYRIA through writers’ eyes, edited by Marius Kociejowski (Eland Publishing Ltd, 2010).
Brigid Keenan is a...
‘The Boy on the Beach’ – The Beginning
 Tima Kurdi, author of ‘The Boy On The Beach’ (Simon & Schuster, 2018), was born and raised in Damascus.Â
In 1992, she immigrated to Canada but maintained close links with...
‘A Child in Damascus’Â by Josceline Dimbleby
Published by Beloved Syria with the permission of the author.
'A Child in Damascus' was first published in SYRIA through writers' eyes, Edited by Marius Kociejowski (Eland Publishing Ltd, 2010)
A...
Singing ‘Baby Shark’ in Bab Tuma, Damascus
My memories of Bab Tuma, a predominately Christian quarter in old Damascus, go back to my first Christmas in Syria. Like locals, I was rugged up for the winter cold....
A Syrian Millennial’s Eulogy To The Bad Times And Good
By Rasha Milhem
One lonely night recently, during a particularly hard time of the coronavirus quarantine, a high school friend and I reviewed our lives and recalled the 2000s with...
Syrian Students Chat With A ‘Real’ Aussie Journalist
In Damascus last September on a journalist's visa, I had the opportunity to interview some truly impressive women in different fields of work.
This impromtu chat in a school yard...
