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The Trip to Syria |
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In April 2001 we took a very interesting one-week trip to Syria where we visited Haifa Shalabi and her daughter Mouna Samayli. Haifa has been a friend of my family since we lived in Alexandria, Egypt in 1962 where she was a student. We covered more than 1,000 miles in Syria with Yasser, a guide/driver recruited by Mouna (see map).
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Mouna, Teresa, Cora, Kristen, Haifa, & Elizabeth out on the town. |
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The Roman-style ruins of Palmyra in the desert northeast of Damascus. Palmyra was an important Roman colony during the third century AD and was an independent city-state before and after. The ruins at Palmyra are very impressive and include a column-lined street almost a mile long, the Temple of Bel, a theater, courtyards, baths, and tombs (funerary towers as well as underground tombs). |
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