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We were on the road from Damascus to Palmyra & feeling quite thirsty . Our bus driver pulled over & stopped for us to visit Bagdad Cafe 66 & slake our thirst.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male foraging on a branch.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) żerujący na gałęzi.
Syrian Bedouin, somewhere between the desert ruins of Palmyra and the city of Homs.
The land was once a forest of ancient Pistachio trees but now arid except for brief moments in spring when it provides enough sustenance for the sheep to produce milk used for cheese.
A land and people now consigned to history.
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John Wreford, Istanbul Based Photographer
The Syrian horse sculpture can be found standing on the cliffs over looking the entrance to Uddevalla's harbour. Standing at 5 meters tall and weighing just over 500kg it's quite an impressive statue. And one that is photographed quite often (though not by me)!
Syrian woodpecker, oder auch Dendrocopos syriacus, der Blutspecht. Fotografiert in Ungarn, Hortobágyi. Futtertragend, am Nest.
Portrait of an internally displaced Syrian refugee girl in the Atmeh refugee camp, Idlib province Syria.
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John Wreford is a freelance photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Palmyra is a set of spectacular ruins in Syria (which none of us have visited recently), but which I was fortunate to have seen in 2001. ISIS dynamited several of the monuments here, murdered the chief historian, etc. and tried to remove any evidence of any pre-Islam religion. The Brits set up a model of this arch in London (Trafalgar Sq), which was on the news yesterday.
Preservationists/archaeologists who have visited the site (since its recent re-capture by the Syrian govt) are cautiously optimistic that some of these monuments (including this arch) can be reconstructed...
Syria in 2010.
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle in Syria and one of the most important medieval castles in the world.
This is the old bazaar in Aleppo's historic center. Most of the market has been damaged by the conflict, but some merchants are slowly starting to return
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) on a tree trunk.
Dzięcioł białoszyi (Dendrocopos syriacus) na pniu drzewa.
Leaving an oily smudge over the desert - the beaten up Hartmann loco forges a lonely path across the sands with its rickety train en route from Damascus to Deraa on the old Hedjaz Railway.
Syria. October 2007. © David Hill.
The good shepherd seemed anxious that the unusual occurrence of a steam hauled train, albeit a ramshackle one, might spook the flock. He need not have worried - they all took it in their stride.
Somewhere between Deraa and Bosra in Syria.
October 2007. © David Hill
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يسافر في أحلامه كل يوم .. أو ربما كل بضعة أيام
يزور الجبل القديم .. والبيوت المتراكمة فوقه
يزور بيته المفعم بالشمس .. ويستنشق عبق الربيع البارد
يتمشى في حديقة الذكرى .. هنا وهناك
قد يرى بعض الوجوه القديمة
وقد تبرز له عرضا بعض الأسماء الوقحة
لكنه يدعها تغرق في رمال الذكرى ويمشي هو على السطح الهادئ
يتنقل بين الأماكن
يعمر في قلبه الصور ويعيد بناءها من جديد
يخاف أن تختفي الصور من ذكراه
يعيدها كل فترة .. يراجعها قليلا ويذاكرها كي يحافظ على التوازن
يتمم رحلته السريعة
ثم يجتاز كل الحواجز
ويستيقظ .. ليمارس النوم اليقظ في جحيم الاغتراب
Kharab Shams
Kharab Shams, also Kharab al-Shams, is an early Byzantine settlement in the area of the Dead Cities in northwestern Syria. The ruins contain an unusually high basilica from the late 4th century. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of Ancient Villages of Northern Syria in 2011.
The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Ancient Villages of Northern Syria.
A Russian military police armoured personnel carrier (APC) drives along a road in the countryside near the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province on October 24, 2019, as part of a joint patrol between Russian forces and Syrian Kurdish Asayish internal security forces near the border with Turkey. - Russian forces have started patrols along the flashpoint frontier, filling the vacuum left by a US troop withdrawal that effectively returned a third of the country to the Moscow-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)