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Straw Industry Enjoys Tourist Popularity The End, Composite Art Piece by Four Artists from Adham Ismail Plastic Arts Center Royal Palace of Ebla, Living Archive of Syria's History Syria: 2 million olive trees enter production boosting oil export Museum of Popular Traditions in Aleppo documents customs, heritage and attractive factor for tourism
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Syrian Textile Industry Reaches the International Fashion Houses |
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 Knitting,
one of the oldest vocations in Syria dating back to 4400
years ago, came as a result of the harsh living
conditions and life demands.Tablets representing the royal records and textile delivery notes were unearthed at Ebla Kingdom indicating the diversity and uniqueness of this deeply rooted vocation. Knitting vocation in Syria witnessed a period of depression in the past due to the foreign invasions while it flourished in the Roman age and became stable at the Umayyad era where the Levant was the center of trade at the Middle Ages and the development of different vocations and commodities production opened the door wide before women in the industrial field. Read more
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| Syria-Damascus oldest continually inhabited city in the world | |||
 As
Mark Twain wrote “....no recorded event has occurred in
the world but Damascus was in existence to receive news
of it.” Damascus and Aleppo vie for the title of 'oldest
continually inhabited city in the world'. With its
Biblical associations, souqs, visual evidence of
continuous occupation from Hellenistic times through
Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Ottoman and into the modern age,
Damascus is a feast for the senses
The Old City, whose walls can
still be traced, includes the 'Street called Straight'
which stretches for almost 2km across the heart of the
area.
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| Straw Industry Enjoys Tourist Popularity | |||
 Among
the popular traditional industries al-Suwayda
governorate is most famous for the straw industry.
Straw
plates and trays are handmade objects usually used for
domestic and ornamental purposes, and they enjoy
remarkable tourist popularity given the beauty of their
carvings and colors and creative dexterity.
These products are found in local markets, particularly in the shops specialized in eastern industries, as well as at the governorate's museums.Read more
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| The End, Composite Art Piece by Four Artists from Adham Ismail Plastic Arts Center | |||
 A
composite art piece titled "The End" is currently being
displayed at Tekkiye Mosque, a collaborative piece made
during a workshop organized by four of the teachers at
Adham Ismail Plastic Arts Center.The four teachers, Rim al-Khatib, Ismail Nasra, Iyas Uwaishik and Jihad Sauud, launched the contemporary arts workshop project at the center in August 2008 with the purpose of developing Syrian art, supporting artists of various ages, explore innovations in visual arts, and help build and develop a local experience. Read more
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| Royal Palace of Ebla, Living Archive of Syria's History | |||
 The
importance of the Royal Palace of Ebla, in Idleb
governorate, lies in that it includes a room for
cuneiform manuscripts, known as 'Ebla Archive' which
stressed its importance as a political and economic
metropolis in Bilad al-Cham besides that the Palace
dates back to the Early Bronze Age 2400 BC.
Supervisor of the Excavation and Restoration Works at the Site Wisam Habib said that the site consists of three sections: the first one is the central, the other is the administrative one, in addition to the services section. Read more
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| Museum of Popular Traditions in Aleppo documents customs, heritage and attractive factor for tourism | |||
 The
Museum of Folklore in
Aleppo
plays an important role in tourist promotion as well as
showing the popular fashion and customs.
Curator of the museum Miralda Mshati said the museum was called Beit Ejaq Basha and the building dates back to 1758 during the Ottoman period. Decorations on the stone which form the building of this museum are called Rococo, a label belonging to the European Baroque period, drawn from European decorations. Read more
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| Tourist Routes Launched in Old City…Highlighting Civilization | |||
 The
ancient part of
Damascus
or "Old City" as it is called, is given great deal of
attention by the government through protecting ruins,
archeological buildings and features of specialty as
well as promoting tourism in the framework of the new
project of Tourism Tracks.Ministry of Local Administration in cooperation with Ministry of Tourism and Damascus Governorate launched the project concentrating on different features of the Old City including the cultural heritage due to the fact that Damascus is considered one of the most important Tourist sites being recorded in the list of world heritage since 1979. Read more
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| Recent Archeological Discoveries Shed Light on the Role of Damascus in Human Civilization | |||
 The
recent discoveries of the archeological expeditions
working in
Damascus
and its countryside helped shed light on the role of the
city in human civilization during various historical
periods.The annual report of the department of excavations and archeological studies at the General Department of Archeology and Museums said that the national, foreign and joint expeditions uncovered new discoveries that show the depth and diversity of civilizations that once lived in the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. |
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| Syria regulates employment of foreigners | |||
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The Syrian government has released a directive regulating the employment of foreign workers in the country. Philippine Ambassador to Syria Wilfredo Cuyugan said the implementation of Decision No. 27 or the Regulation of Private Employment Agency for Non Syrian [Domestic Helper], Conditions and Rules of their Employments in the Territories of the Syrian Arab Republic, regularizes the procedures and stipulates specific rules that both employment agencies and employers must follow to hire foreign workers |
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| Historic Village of Brad, a Living Testimony to an Important Period of Syrian History | |||
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The village, which is located 30 kilometers northeast of Aleppo, contains Julianos Church, which is among the largest in Northern Syria. It was established in the late 4th century AD, and St. Maroun was interred in a chapel that was added later to the church. Read more
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| Syria’s traditional metal handicraft industry. | |||
 Ghiath Abdul, 26, started
learning the art of inlaid silver, copper
and brass work at the age of 10. Back then,
he remembers watching a street full of local
smiths painstakingly cutting and hammering
away at their metals, masters of their
profession. Today, however, only Abdul and
three other craftsmen in
Damascus’s
Old City still produce inlaid metal goods by
hand, using original methods which date back
some 700 years to the Mamluk era.
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| From Syria to Qatar… A Folkloric Syrian Fashion Show in Doha | |||
| 27cuneiform tablets from 2500 BC unearthed in Syria | |||
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| Arabtec to Build 5–Stars Hotel in Syria | |||
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| Syria-Three 4-Thousand-Year Archeological Cemeteries Discovered in Tal al-Ashari | |||
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| Controversial film acclaimed abroad but unseen by Syrians | |||
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| Archaeological Findings: Cuneiform tablets, Seals and Tombs Unearthed in Syria | |||
| Top Ten Reasons Why Syria Is Fabulous | |||
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| Syria Operates Deir Ali Power Plant with 750 Megawatt and Euro 400 Million Cost | |||
| Syrian Minister of Petroleum: 60,000 Square Meters of New Exploration Areas to be Announced Soon | |||
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| Syrian arts and crafts-Following the Craft Route | |||
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