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Syria, land of surrealism

Entering Damascus, we could see and hear the shells falling. People were going about their daily life, unfazed. The officers at the checkpoint were joking with each other. A man peddled past on his bicycle with a bag of cucumbers hanging from the handles. Children in school uniforms and backpacks flooded out of school. The daily noise of a city was punctuated by explosions, and no one blinked.

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Syria, a study in the surreal

Coming into Damascus, we could see and hear the shells falling. People were going about their daily life, unfazed. The officers at the checkpoint were joking with each other. A man peddled past on his bicycle with a bag of cucumbers hanging from the handles. Children in school uniforms and backpacks flooded out of school. The daily noise of a city was punctuated by explosions, and no one blinked.

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