The remote postcards are a weekly chain in which the NPR team participates moments of their lives and works all over the world.
It was exactly a week after the Assad regime fell in Syria last December, and Damascus was a candidate.
My colleague and I came back in the city center called Sugar Man. Small space, with purple lights, neon brands, cowboy hat, colored posters for American and Arabic films and celebrities, and posters announce American cities. The watering was a modern haircut and the hole. People were tattoo, modern. I was told that some of them were young Syrian activists who fled to Beirut during the Assad regime. Now they returned to the house.
Arabic music only was played: pop, national songs-including the anti-lion songs that we heard throughout the city-and classics by legends such as Fairuz and UMM Kulthum.
It was undoubtedly Syrian, Arab, proud – and free.
There were fears, though: Will Islamic groups that led the rebellion against Assad closed places like this, confiscating alcohol, and stopping music?
These questions remain in the minds of everyone. But not tonight.
It was the night for dance.
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