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Author: Diana Darke Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190934816 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire--despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria and civil war in Lebanon, to his arrival in England in the 1970s, where he rescued a failing Yorkshire textile mill, Hield Bros, and transformed it into a global brand. The Merchant of Syria tells two parallel stories: the life of a cloth merchant and his resilience, and the rich history of a nation built on trade. Over millennia Syria has seen great conflict and turmoil, but like the remarkable story of Abu Chaker, it continues to survive.
Author: Diana Darke Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190934816 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire--despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria and civil war in Lebanon, to his arrival in England in the 1970s, where he rescued a failing Yorkshire textile mill, Hield Bros, and transformed it into a global brand. The Merchant of Syria tells two parallel stories: the life of a cloth merchant and his resilience, and the rich history of a nation built on trade. Over millennia Syria has seen great conflict and turmoil, but like the remarkable story of Abu Chaker, it continues to survive.
Author: Philip Mansel Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857729241 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them, Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo – one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world – successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time. In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.
Author: Philip Mansel Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857727192 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo - one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world - successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time. In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.
Author: Andrew Tabler Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 9781569768433 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Provides a rare glimpse into the machinations of one of the world's most baffling political systems, examining what has gone wrong and how Washington should deal with this volatile Middle Eastern nation -- Publisher.
Author: Diana Darke Publisher: Haus Publishing ISBN: 1908323655 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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The ongoing conflict in Syria has made clear just how limited the general knowledge of Syrian society and history is in the West. For those watching the headlines and wondering what led the nation to this point, and what might come next, this book is a perfect place to start developing a deeper understanding. Based on decades of living and working in Syria, My House in Damascus offers an inside view of Syria’s cultural and complex religious and ethnic communities. Diana Darke, a fluent Arabic speaker who moved to Damascus in 2004 after decades of regular visits, details the ways that the Assad regime, and its relationship to the people, differs from the regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya—and why it was thus always less likely to collapse quickly, even in the face of widespread unrest and violence. Through the author’s firsthand experiences of buying and restoring a house in the old city of Damascus, which she later offered as a sanctuary to friends, Darke presents a clear picture of the realities of life on the ground and what hope there is for Syria’s future.
Author: Ed Aryain Publisher: Texas Tech University Press ISBN: 9780896725867 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
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"Sixty years after his arrival in America in 1913 at age fifteen, Syrian-American Mohammed (Ed) Aryain recounts his life as first a dry-goods peddler and then a merchant and family man on the Great Plains, eventually owning a store in Seminole, Texas. Introduction and notes provide historical context"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Mike Thomson Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1541767616 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
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The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries--they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above. The story of this extraordinary place and the people who found purpose and refuge in it is one of hope, human resilience, and above all, the timeless, universal love of literature and the compassion and wisdom it fosters.
Author: Noureddine Bouchair Publisher: ISBN: Category : Syria Languages : en Pages : 175
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Most of the history written about Syria, as well as with most countries, deals w ith political or military history. Very little is known about the socio-economic classes of Syria. This study is an attempt to contribute to this topic through an analysis of the big Syrian merchants in the period between the two world wars . The dissertation shows how the administration of the French Mandate affected t he Syrian merchant class. Particular attention was paid in identifying those big merchant families and their involvement in politics, particularly in the nation alist movement. The role minorities played as members of the Syrian merchant cla ss is also shown. With the institution of the French Mandate, Syria became more integrated in the world capitalist market and this affected the country economic ally as well as politically. Another important point which was analyzed was the adjustments these merchants made while working in the constrained limits of a na tional state during the period 1920-1946. Before the institution of the French M andate, they traded in an area the size of an empire; therefore, one finds that many large-scale merchants became involved in politics and rejected the hindranc e the national state's borders which they considered detrimental to their econom ic activities.
Author: Diana Darke
Author: Diana Darke
Author: Philip Mansel
Author: Philip Mansel
Author: Andrew Tabler
Author: DIANA. DARKE
Author: Diana Darke
Author: Ed Aryain
Author: Mike Thomson
Author: Eugene Hugh Byrne
Author: Noureddine Bouchair