Shaam Film Festival Media Conference
- By Greta Medawar and Carissa Gilham
In May 2017, Shaam Group presented the inaugural Shaam Syrian Film Festival in Melbourne and Sydney with the...
LENA CHAMAMYAN
Lena is an Armenian Syrian singer, composer and musician. Described as a Syrian ambassador spreading the jasmine voice of Damascus, she has performed in...
Karla – Student, Realist and Footy Tragic
As a teacher, I have always asked myself what sets us apart from other professions. Is it possible to 'leave' our work at work...
Book Review: Road to Damascus
Elaine Rippey Imady, MSI Press, LLC, 2013
Traveling to Syria meant leaving behind my mother and my two sisters and uprooting myself from my small...
Book Review: Daughter of Damascus
Book Review by Lisa Accadia
Daughter of Damascus by Siham Tergeman
Published by Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1994
Damascus in my...
Book Review: Damascus – Hidden Treasures of the Old City
By Brigid Keenan, Thames & Hudson
Review by Charles Newton, ESL teacher and artist
My husband, a diplomat, was posted to Syria in 1993, and I...
