This staple of Syrian cuisine is a mixture of ground lamb, bulgur wheat, and onion, but there are numerous variations: fried and stuffed with pine ...

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Damascus and Aleppo have a rivalry like other top cities within the same country, and it’s even played out in beer: Al-Sharq is produced ...

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The Middle Eastern fondness for sweet, syrupy pastries is very much in evidence here. Try the karabeej, a dome-shaped pastry of semolina and butter; the ...

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These traditional houses made of mud brick and straw are usually clustered at the edge of the desert in the north, where the temperature fluctuations ...

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Built into the rocks in the Kalamun Mountains, about 30 miles from Damascus, this quaint whitewashed village seems a world away from modern times. In ...

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The vestiges of a mile-long colonnade bordered with Roman columns near fields of wildflowers are just a slight clue to how romantic this town must ...

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Second only to Palmyra in scope and scale of ruins is this city, once a center in the Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic empires. It was ...

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This ancient city, originally named Tadmor and mentioned in the Bible as a desert city fortified by Solomon, first came to prominence in the third ...

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A former trading post on the Silk Road, this city displays its merchant past in its huge energetic, historic suq, which seems mostly unchanged from ...

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This is a typically frenetic collection of bazaar stalls, with smaller, specialized stands branching out on the side streets. If you have suq fatigue, stop ...

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