Damascus, (SANA) Kisan, Sharqi, Touma, al-Saghir, al-Jabiya, al-Faradis, and al-Farj—the names of the seven historic gates of Damascus, each carries centuries of stories. Armies marched through them, others departed and together they became the city’s eternal guardians, each gate symbolically linked to a celestial body. Damascus, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city, has witnessed the […]