The tourism ministry's decision marks the first time the Damascus authorities have issued guidelines related to what women ...

Women have been ordered to wear more conservative dress for the first time since the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist coalition ...

The Al-Kharrat family in Syria has kept the tradition of Sema, or the dance of the whirling dervishes, alive for decades.

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Syria's Islamist-led government has decreed that women should wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body at public ...

The decree marks the first time the interim government has issued guidelines related to what women can wear since Bashar ...

Cleo is led by Executive Chef Camila Olarte who has worked in the kitchens at such restaurants as Los Fuegos by Francis ...

Syria issued a conservative new dress code Tuesday requiring women to wear burkinis or full-body swimwear on all public beaches, the latest cultural shift since Islamist-led rebels toppled dictator ...

The passion for art that began in early childhood has only deepened over the years for artist, curator, educator and ...