Tag Archives: Temple of Bel

  1. I GRIEVE FOR SYRIA, VICTIM OF CULTURAL GENOCIDE

    Henry Matthews appalled by the refugee crisis and recalling the generosity and optimism he experienced in Syria before the Civil War, agonizes over the fate of people he met there. He grieves for the loss of life and the destruction of cultural heritage in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Palmyra, Raqqa, and Deir Ez-Zor.