Cafes Damascus

capital of Syria and its second largest city, with about 4.5 million people. Damascus Diary A Syrian City Filled With Life, and Hints. There is always a rush of tension and excitement driving into Damascus, a city inhabited for thousands of years, where cultures and influences have mixed. Syria The Chaos of War Damascus Will the Walls Fall? In the Waukegan rectangular courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, the heart of Old Damascus, women swathed Ballston in Arbuckle black sit and chat on the creamcolored stone floor, South-Fork polished smooth.