Aleppo, Syria - January, 2008: Young boys playing football outside the Citadel in downtwon Aleppo which was first built between 364-333 BC while the majority of the present day structure dates back to Mamluk rule between 1250-1517 AD. (Photo by Christopher Herwig)
Aleppo, Syria - January, 2008: Meat hanging on the wall in a butcher shop in the Aleppo Souk (bazaar).
Damascus, Syria - January 2008: Umayyad mosque in Damascus has been for 3000 years a place of worship starting with an Aramaens temple to the god Hadad - over the years Jupiter with the Romans, then Christ and lastly in 636 AD Muslims entered Damascus. It houses a shrine of John the Baptist. (Photo by Christopher Herwig)
