Rabbi Yusuf Hamra smells a citrus fruit with former neighbors in Old Damascus. "The scent of Damascus was orange blossoms and jasmine," said his son Henry. The Syrian president sent a key advisor ...

We arrived two days before Ramadan, and the market in Old Damascus was packed shoulder to shoulder, with the occasional motorcycle working its way through the crowd. The new Syrian flag ...

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time. The ...

The situation is putting a damper on a typically festive season. Shopping in a market in Old Damascus ahead of Ramadan this week.Credit... Supported by By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Kiana ...

As Eid al-Fitr approaches, bakeries across Damascus are busy preparing maamoul and other confections made with wheat flour ...

The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the famed civic ...

Members of the Jewish delegation, accompanied by former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp, carry an historic Torah in the Faranj synagogue in Damascus. Cantor Henry Hamra lights a candle at the ...

and his son Henry lookout an old scripture at the Efranj synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from ...