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Singer Abdelrahman Roshdy. (Facebook / Abdelrahman Roshdy)

September 21st, 2017 - 10:35 GMT

Meet Abdelrahman Roshdy, Cairo's Favourite Sufi Singer

In this interview with Abdelrahman Roshdy, Cairo's most prominent singer of Sufi music talks about life, music, and the future.

Assad, a former investment banker, was born and raised in London. She was married to Bashar six months after he assumed the presidency in July 2000, following the death of his father Hafez. (AFP/Miguel Medina)

October 19th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Bashar al Assad’s wife Asma was offered many ways out of Syria

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September 8th, 2015 - 06:14 GMT

OPINION: How Syria's banks are countering politics in a war-torn economy

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March 30th, 2015 - 10:42 GMT

With country in ashes, Syrian rolls out new women-oriented cigar business

It's the first time that a rocket has hit the center of Qardaha since fighting started in 2011. (AFP/File)

February 21st, 2015 - 05:34 GMT

Syria explosion kills four people in President Assad's hometown

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June 6th, 2014 - 01:52 GMT

Why the Syrian city of Homs won't see peace anytime soon

Dated April 1, the letter said: “If we were to topple President Assad, then Syria would be taken over by Al-Qaeda’s allies. (AFP/File)

May 29th, 2014 - 09:08 GMT

Bashar Assad fanclub: U.S. senator sends Syrian president a letter of praise

Regime forces have kept the city of Homs under siege for nearly 600 days (AFP)

November 26th, 2013 - 11:02 GMT

Behind the scenes with Syria's citizen journalists in Homs

Rifaat al-Assad (left) and Hafez al-Assad (right) (Source: Wikimedia, public commons)

June 27th, 2013 - 08:55 GMT

Assad's uncle washes his hands of some prime Parisian real estate

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on Wednesday, allegedly shows the rubble of the minaret (background) of Aleppo's ancient Umayyad mosque. (Image: AFP photo / YouTube)

April 25th, 2013 - 05:30 GMT

Minaret of ancient Aleppo mosque destroyed amid fierce clashes

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows Syrian anti-regime protesters destroying a statue of former president Hafez al-Assad after rebels overran the northern city of Raqqa on Monday. (Photo: AFP Photo / YouTube)

March 6th, 2013 - 05:04 GMT

Syrian warplanes bombard rebel-seized Raqqa

Yahya Hawwa is known by many as 'the singer of the Syrian revolution' (Screen grab: YouTube)

February 20th, 2013 - 08:08 GMT

The singer of the Syrian revolution

Chemical weapons

June 12th, 2012 - 09:15 GMT

Revealed: Syria's massive stockpile of chemical weapons