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''We are witnessing the fall of humanity'' Malek Jandali is considered to be among the most versatile and creative musicians in the Arab world. He has recently attracted widespread international attention for his strong stand against the Assad regime. Martina Sabra met the artist in the country of his birth, Germany Mr. Jandali, you said you would bring something special with you to our interview? Malek Jandali: Yes. I have a piece of what’s known as a "shepshep" here – the front part of a small, colourful rubber slipper. This slipper belongs to a child who managed to escape from Syria...

  The idea of covenant, or brit, has long been one of the main ways in which the biblical encounter between man and God is understood. This term has been especially popular among today’s political theorists with an interest in Scripture, who have tried to marshal the biblical term for contemporary political applications. But these efforts have, more often than not, only clouded our understanding of the biblical concept of covenant. Invariably they employ anachronistic political theories or much—later understandings about what the word means to interpret the term, and then to read it bac...

Follow Jan. 17, 2021 The fall of the great city of Ugarit and rise of towns along the coasts of today’s Israel and Lebanon had been thought to date after the empires around the Mediterranean collapsed 3,200 years ago. Now the discovery of a significant number of Canaanite jars in the Mycenaean city of Tiryns dating to well before the collapse indicates otherwise. As the ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean arose, they not only warred on one another, they traded with each other too. Until the still-enigmatic large-scale collapse of civilizations around the Mediterranean in the 13th...

footnotes. Nile, Euphrates, Tiger, Indus (Pakistan), Ganges (India), and the Yellow River in China. The best approach to explaining the succession of civilizations and Empires in the  Fertile Crescent (Greater Syria) that raided and conquered the Near East civilizations such as in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria ( Phoenicia, Canaan, Aram) is the analogy of survival among the lions and lionesses. Young lions that attained two years, after being chased out of the clan, prowl the region for lionesses to mate and establish clans of their own. Old lions are attacked and displaced and the cubs are ...

22 December، 2020 Prague, SANA – Czech A60 website has posted an expanded photo report about the most important tourist attractions in Syria and the destruction inflicted on some archeological places at the hands of terrorist organizations. The report included 77 color photos captured in Damascus, Hama, Krak des Chevaliers, Maaloula, Palmyra, Ugarit, Sednayah, and Citadel of Saladin. Helena Preshellova, writer of the report, talked about her positive impression during her visit to Syria and about the history and beauty of Palmyra, Damascus, Maaloula, Ugarit, Sednayah, and Citadel of Salad...