#Syrie
In #Damascus, Everyone Comes to the Zeriab #Café
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On a brisk, late-winter evening at Zeriab Café, a popular coffee shop in the Old City of Damascus, a trio of young musicians picked up a guitar, a ney, and an oud and began to play. It was Thursday, the start of the Syrian weekend, and the café was packed with stylish young customers, who broke from their conversations as the music started. Zeriab is small—just five wooden tables pressed close together, a bar counter, and a red sofa.
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My mission as a coffee shop is to create a place with nice music and a nice atmosphere, and to take people out of their thoughts of war.
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▻http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/04/in-damascus-everyone-comes-to-the-zeriab-cafe.html