This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the city's tumultuousexperiences over the last century.
The anonymous Arabic chronicle presented in this book offers a captivating account of a decisive decade in modern Middle Eastern history.
This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past.