On Arwad, Syria's only inhabited island and a centre of boat building since Phoenician times, one family still makes wooden boats by hand ...

The wooden shipbuilding industry in Arwad dates back to the Phoenician era and is more than 2,500 years old. Yet it has been ...

A Syrian man living in Canada returns to his homeland with his mistress to try to reconnect to his past in “Arwad,” an overextended drama disguised as a mood piece from husband-and-wife team ...

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The Syrian transport ministry statement said the director of the small island port of Arwad off the coast of Tartus informed them at 4:30 p.m. that a drowned person had been sighted near an ...

Arwad is far from the front lines of Syria's war, but the island, known for its maritime heritage, is suffering economically on account of a drop in tourism.

Syrian heritage professionals are rallying to safeguard and restore the country’s ancient treasures following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024.

DAMASCUS, Syria, July 4 (UNHCR) - Aid provided by the UN refugee agency has been distributed to some of the neediest local and forcibly displaced families among the 10,000 people living on Arwad, ...

ARWAD, Syria — In the years before Syria's war the boat makers of Arwad used to sell their wooden vessels along the Mediterranean coast down to Lebanon and up to Turkey, but the trade has ...

Early Phoenician examples Rock-cut complexes beneath monuments at Sidon, Arwad and Burj al-Bezzak already have horizontal body niches blocked with stone slabs.

The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials has begun at a Paris court for the alleged torture and killing of a French-Syrian father and son who were arrested over a decade ...