The Silk Road network is generally thought of as stretching from an eastern terminus at the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang’an (now Xi’an) to westward end-points at Byzantium (Constantinople), ...

review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map the following cities: Chang' An (modern-day Xi'an), Turfan (or Turpan), Kashgar, the Ferghana ...

Syria-Lebanon border to DAMASCUS, Syria – The road to Damascus tells the story of a new Syria emerging from 54 years of authoritarian rule by one family – the Assads. At the border crossing ...

December 8, 4am: We made our way from Beirut to the Masnaa border with Syria because reports were coming in that Damascus had fallen ... The last time I drove this road was in 2011.

the brief conjured thoughts of Fattal’s that had been resurfacing about the Arabic trade of the Silk Road, and her own time living in the Middle East. Fattal was born and raised in Damascus ...