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    The Damascus Journals

    by Roua Horanieh Nov 29, 2017 5 minutes

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    This is about Damascus, the city where I was born and raised. Today I live in London and my contact with Damascus is painful.

    I met a lovely old lady in our community allotment garden a couple of months ago. We had a nice chat about growing plants and growing children. My daughter was running around, her grandchildren too, we talked about the beautiful things in life. And then, in the conversation, I mentioned that I was Syrian. She looked at me and said:

    “Oh, you poor girl, I want to hug you and cry.”

    It’s important that the memory of a place survives the horror that overcomes it. So I find my Syrian voice in the sweet memories of a grand city.

    I woke up that morning and my room was orange. It smelled of heaven. My mother had made apricot jam and poured it into big round silver steel pans, to sit in the sun, on

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