Hazem,
If you are going to take your camera for a walk in Old Damascus, I wonder if you would be able to find my Half-room!?
Now, it might not be easy to find it; the red dot is roughly speaking where it is located:
If you are coming from Bab Tuma, as soon as you arrive to Al Qemariya Quarter, in your left there is many shops and a baker, further down there is a gate, in your left too, (small one and dark brown) if front of it there is a wood carver (say hello from me, if he is still a live! You could ask him if this is the house of Um Nabeel and Abu Nabeel). If so, as soon as you open the gate (there is many lodgers in the house, some of them artists too) and if you enter the house you could see (my castle) in front of you , squeezed between the ground floor and the first one, with a small balcony (shaped as quarter of a circle) and two windows, in your right there is a long narrow stairs, if you climb them, half way in your left is the entrance (the very dark kitchen on you right, and on your left is the quarter of a circle balcony). The door of my half-room used to be green, and have very small lock! Last time I went there with my wife, we managed to knock at the door and have a coffee with new occupant (she used to be teacher of English at one of the nearby schools!)
If you have the time to find my half-room, I think you’ll enjoy it, and you might be rewarded with a cup of coffee too!
Talk soon
Issam
