The Daily IIJ

One can barely imagine that a tiny building located in a crowded street in Aleppo is the vital hub where four million people conduct business transactions daily. The Aleppo Chamber of Commerce (ACC), the city’s only business network since 1885, is currently attempting to increase the volume of its activities and minimize future risks caused [...]

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Driven by romantic incentives like “love is blind” or “love is worth everything we pay”, soul mates from different cultures and religions cross all boundaries for a brand new start, full of challenges. These challenges become unavoidable when their children come to light since they are expected to be the ‘happy aftermath’.  The reality is [...]

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Elsy Melkonian, Syria Published in FW: Magazine, Aug. 2009
Syrian people are often labeled ‘fashion followers’ as they tend to spend a great amount of time visiting fashion stores to choose whatever is trendy and stylish. Making the right choice of catchy clothes, however, has become a hard task because the Syrian market is currently [...]

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Elsy Melkonian, Syria 

The historical monuments and ancient places of the old part of Aleppo city in Syria have dazzled the eyes of every tourist and visitor for ages. However, a great number of the valuable material, considered as city’s cultural heritage, seemed to be lost in the hands of old inhabitants or transferred abroad via [...]

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Promises, Promises….Are they hard to keep?
Elsy Melkonian, Syria
It is one of the expressions we often use in our daily life without even thinking of its broad meaning and the fact that it keeps us with high expectations .
What made me think of the word promise, or the impact it leaves on people, is a situation [...]

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