09/12/2024
a start of a new DAY, new HOPES, new DREAMS, and a NEW SYRIA...
Mark Twain (the Innocent Abroad – 1869) wrote about Damascus:
"… No recorded event has occurred in the world but Damascus was in existence to receive the news of it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past.
There was always a Damascus... To Damascus years are only moments, Decades are only flitting trifles of time. She measures time not by days, months and years. But by the empires she has seen rise and prosper and crumble to ruin. She is a type of immortality. She saw Greece rise and flourish two thousand years, and die... In her old age she saw Rome built, she saw it overshadow the world with its power; she saw perish... She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies…"
لقد رأت دمشق العظام الجافة لألف إمبراطورية وسترى مقابر ألف أخرى قبل أن تموت...
