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Damascus 50 years on...

Travel writer Colin Thubron returns to Damascus 50 years after the publication of his homage to the city. He is surprised to find old friends still there, to stumble through an Old City largely intact, and to be taken in for questioning by the intelligence service. “We can’t see an end to it,” people tell him of the civil war.

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