Loading ...Storytelling at the Al-Nawfara Coffee-House Enhances Damascus’s Charm
By: Habeeb Salloum/ Arab America Contributing Writer The muezzin’s evening call to prayer sounded soothing as we made our way through the side streets of old Damascus to the Al-Nawfara (the fountain) Café, famous as a story-telling haunt. In a few minutes, we were sitting in this charming coffee-house, surrounded by water pipe smokers and … Continued