Syria

February 14, 2000

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General Data   Population 16 million (1999) Population Growth Rate 3.3% Religion 70% Sunni Muslim, 12% Alawi, 14% Christian (various sects), 3% Druze and small number of Jews, Yazidis and other Mu

February 9, 2000

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February 14th. That is the day many Syrians are marking in their calendars because it is the day that the country's trial cellular network will be ina

February 8, 2000

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As Syrian society slowly becomes more computerized, the Tourism Ministry has developed a plan to link all tourism and travel agencies country-wide to

February 3, 2000

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Nader Al-Sibai, won the first award in al-Sharjha Competition For Literary Creation for his first novel, The White Wolf (Damascus, 1999).   Nadar Al-S

February 2, 2000

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Not with all the essential players. Not under the right weather conditions. And not for long enough.  Tishreen daily reports that these were some of t

January 20, 2000

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The Syrian football team has a long way to go before it will be able compete in the Asian Nations Football Cup tournament as it was crushed 3-0 in a f

December 9, 1999

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Nearly 120 storywriters from 7 nations competed in the 4th contest of the Sheikha Fatema Bint Hazzaa Bin Zayed Award for Arab children's stories in t

December 6, 1999

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Residents of Sweidah in the Druze Mountain region are the latest Syrians to be exposed to the world of information technology and the Internet through

January 1, 1970

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The Damascus-based Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine have predicted that the uprising against the Israeli occupation will