سوريا عن قربSYRIA UP CLOSEعربي
About

A lens that moves closer to real details.

We are not another travel guide. We are a live record of Syria as it is today: dated information, real people answering, photos from the place itself.

Up close: a door knocker, a cup of coffee, a market stall. This is where we work.

A Damascene door knocker
What makes us different

Four promises. Flip the card.

Press a card to see how we keep the promise.

How we check

A fact with a name and a date.

The equation

From honesty to a stay.

01 →Honest, dated contentA fact with a name, a date and a source.
02 →TrustVisitors know the situation before they travel.
03 →Coming backThey come back every week for what is new.
04A stay through AhleenWhen they decide to travel, they book somewhere they trust.

Our partnership with Ahleen

Syria Up CloseWhere do we go?

The guide: places, seasons, the status today, and people on the ground.

AhleenWhere do we sleep?

Hotels and rural homes with real, dated photos; booking on Ahleen.

Ahleen is our accommodation partner. The partnership is unpaid and nobody takes a commission or fee from it. Booking buttons appear only on city, In Syria and From abroad pages, where readers actually need a stay, with a disclosure line. Every page’s footer links to Ahleen with its logo.

A detail from the Aleppo souq

Try Aleppo laurel soap.

Press the bar to make lather, then rub the tile with your mouse or finger. That is how we like to introduce Syria: a small real experience, not a polished picture.

Press the soap
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Our key resource is people, not money

Photograph your city. Be our correspondent there.

We are looking for a photography student or creator in each city to update it weekly, under their own name.

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