A skateboard inscribed with an Armenian folk song. Kim Kardashian in Aleppo’s souqs. Stephany Sanossian’s mixed media fever ...

Most of the ancient Aleppo souq, with its priceless heritage of medieval khans and hammams, is closed, some of the accessible ...

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“Hopefully there will be a day that we see them again restored.” The ancient souks where Aleppo’s famed olive oil soap is piled up in stacks for sale has been reduced in many places to ...

A UNESCO Heritage with Global Appeal The UNESCO-protected tradition of Aleppo soapmaking, dating back thousands of years, represents one of humanity's earliest successful formulations ...

"We've never stopped producing, even during the war. Many of Aleppo's weavers had to relocate to basements," recounted factory owner Hassan El-Entabbi, who inherited the family spinning mill ...

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...