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Earlier this year, the Syrian Foreign Minister made the dramatic announcement that - following European criticism of the crackdown on opposition protests - Syria would remove Europe from their maps of the world. Within hours, enterprising traders in the souq were carrying brand new stock of T-shirts - a map...
3 Comments | Posted 29 September 2011 | 01:00:00 (EST)
On a recent visit to London, people looked alarmed when I said I'd just come from Damascus. One after another they said 'I can't believe you're still there! Is it safe? How can you work there?'
Is it safe? How can we work here?
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Posted 19 December 2011 | 00:00:00 (EST)