Discover the Story of Damascus Steel!

Damascus is hosting its first international book fair since Bashar Assad fell, and publishers say censorship has almost ...

A discarded car chain becomes the raw material for a striking Damascus steel blade in this hands-on forging project. By welding and folding the chain links into a solid billet, the maker coaxes out ...

Under Mr Assad, publishing houses were regularly forced to pull books from their shelves; intelligence agencies would rifle through new collections. Unflattering biographies of Bashar were not ...