Watching the sun rise over a new Damascus
2024-12-27 20:00:02 - From: Al monitor
After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus "from the sky" and watch the sun rise.
Through the long years of Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 with a government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, people were not allowed access to the mountain.
But now they can return to look down again on their capital, with its high-rise hotels and poor suburbs exhausted by war.
