Damascus, Syria
The Craft That Survived by Being Slow
Damascene inlay cannot be rushed, cannot be automated and cannot be faked at close range. Each of those has, at different times, nearly killed it — and then saved it.
8 February 2021
Culture
Art, music, design and the crafts that survived by being useful.
Homs, Syria
Five Walls in Homs
Painted in 2015, on surfaces that had not been chosen for painting. Six years on, what has survived is not what anyone expected.
7 January 2021
Damascus, Syria
The Room That Was Built for a Voice
A Damascene courtyard house is an acoustic instrument that also happens to be somewhere to live. Musicians have known this for a long time; the architects who built them never wrote it down.
31 December 2020