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(One can be assured that Patrick Cockburn, Robert Fisk, Charles Glass and Stephen Kinzer will be lining up to take advantage of the revived Syrian nightlife.)
On most weekends, Range Rovers with tinted windows hold up traffic on the cobblestone streets near Bab Sharqi in the Old City of Damascus. Young clubbers with designer handbags and manicured hair piled high on their heads hobble in high heels to Mazzika, a new club that has quickly become home to the Damascene elite and where it is not unusual to find a patron dropping 200,000 Syrian pounds (SYP) (almost $400) in one night.
By July 2017, so many bars, clubs and pubs had popped up across the city over the previous year that the Damascus governorate looked to increase the number of permits for bars beyond the limit of 109 originally decreed in 1952.
Internal tourism is also on the rise, with most hotels along the coast at full capacity this summer: Reports claim 80 percent of internal tourism is on the coast, while Damascenes are starting to return to the summer resorts in Bloudan – next to Zabadani – following the “Four Towns Agreement” evacuation deal reached earlier this year that covered Zabadani alongside Madaya, Fou’a and Kafraya.
full: https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2017/09/18/long-read-elites-war-profiteers-take-aim-at-syrias-economic-future
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