How to pronounce “damascus” in English

Damascus and then Beirut.

Damascus has the world's largest collection of old residential Ottoman architecture.

My father was from Damascus and always had an affinity for social justice.

And we limped into Damascus.

I was looking towards Damascus, which is not very far from there.

shopping from Damascus in Baghdad, Iraq.

He went from Damascus to Tel Aviv and then to Jaffa to see the house of his grandparents.

the Jewish couple from Damascus, and Layla, the younger, beautiful, Palestinian woman from Jaffa.

And the society in Damascus was much more different than the society in Al-Hasakah.

I was in Damascus when it started to happen.

all still functioning in Damascus now.

That is how Damascus has always been-- incredibly blended.

But in Damascus, that has nothing to do with a specifically Jewish symbol.

amazing engineers in Damascus who literally snuck-- I was going to write about them, but I realized I might put them in jeopardy by writing about

Christ on the road to Damascus.

Saul becomes Paul on the road to Damascus, wiped clean of a past in which the execution of good Christian believers was his life's work.

And when I got into Damascus, I knew I was done for a while.

And this is documented by John of Damascus who saw the early Arab armies coming into Damascus.

And many of the Christians in Damascus and Egypt in the seventh and eighth centuries wished to convert.

He taught Arabic and French at in Damascus.

You basically get al-Qaeda in Damascus.

And then I had to move to Damascus to study at the university.

Because it's easy to forget that Damascus is actually very high.

appears to me as i wrote adamak Damascus moment I that I kept slate that I kept safely locked away in my subconscious I

And there was kind of a Paul on the road to Damascus moment for me, and that was seeing a veery in Central Park.

They are the baker born from the home and bakery in Damascus.

But it's a 1,000-year-old city like Damascus is, right?

This is the Art and Humanitic Science of Damascus University.

It was not much different than the situation in Damascus, so we realized that we did have to do something about this.

So historically, Damascus therefore has always had very close links to Lebanon, just like Aleppo right up in the north

just like so much of the industry and businesses around Damascus relocated to Lebanon.

You can get a sense as you walk through Damascus of layer upon layer of civilization.

all I was told were beautiful stories about the life that they left in Damascus.

the Palestinian refugees in Hebrew, about Jews from Damascus even in Hebrew.

The Assad regime has used chemical weapons on its own people in a suburb of Damascus, as well as other places.

So nowhere illustrates this blending more to my mind than the old city of Damascus, which is where I bought my house, obviously.

So this is very typical of the natural blending of all the traditions in Damascus.

And the reason I'm showing it to you is that in Damascus itself, there is no actual fighting going on at the moment.

As I mentioned, the center of Damascus is basically safe, but every now and again a random shell is fired in from the suburbs that

So unfortunately, the suburbs of Damascus-- completely different story.

But when that was over, I went to Damascus.

molested so this is my second reading is from that night on the road to Damascus a light from heaven blinded Saul of

sentenced to death, but he appeared in a courtroom in Damascus.

gather militias to fight on behalf of President Assad eastern Gouta which is on the outskirts of Damascus which is

It could be at other intersections of time and place, perhaps in Istanbul or in Damascus.

I definitely remember when I was a six-year-old playing with my siblings and cousins in Damascus and insisting on being the surgeon who

They are the people who are being bombed by conventional weapons and now by chemical weapons in eastern Damascus.

In fact, my father was the only one not to be born in Damascus.

And then one day I read in the newspaper about a teacher, 30 years old from Damascus, who just crossed the border.