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The scent of soap making returns to Aleppo

After years of war, the scent of laurel oil once again wafts from a small soap workshop in Aleppo, signalling the revival of a landmark trade in the battered northern city. Surrounding soap workshops in the Al-Nayrab district still lie in ruins, badly damaged in the four-year battle for the...

Artist mirrors Syria's alienation, displacement in huge mural

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The artist is a part of society; he simulates the historical, social, intellectual, political as well as economic issues as he lives the present changes within his society. Salih al-Hajr, 40, told Zaman al-Wasl that he tried to visually document the rich details...

Syrian chef wins Best Refugee Chefs in World Award

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Chef Mohamed al-Khalidi, has won, at an international festival held in France recently, the award of Best Refugee Chefs in the World. The World Restaurant Award has created this award to welcome refugees, and to speed the integration of the refugee chefs....

Germany: two refugee brothers set up courier company

The two Syrian refugee brothers Ibrahim and Riadh al-Jiran did not want to depend only on the asylum social benefits granted to Syrian refugees in Germany, so they tried to prove themselves with their ambition and desire to achieve success and uniqueness in their new society. ...