By Mohammed Al A’Ali
DAMASCUS, the oldest known capital in the world dubbed poetically as the ‘City of Jasmine’, is now opening up once again to visitors fascinated by the beauty of ancient civilisations, lured by mountainous landscapes and cuisines of mouth-watering qualities.
GDN’s chief reporter Mohammed Al A’Ali travelled with a party of charity champions to Syria on the first official trip by a Bahraini delegation and found a country struggling, but determined, to recover from natural disasters and man-made madness as it opens its arms tentatively to attract tourists in a bid to re-energise its economy.
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