By the way, despite the title of this post (or rather the description), this blog is incredibly inferior to the multitudes of others out there. If you want the real scoop on what is happening in Syria, I highly recommend visiting “Syria Comment” which also includes a very detailed blogroll. Seriously, everything about that blog puts this one to shame. To be fair, this blog generally was intended just to provide some amusing insights into my experience in Syria (or Aleppo, specifically) as well as to pontificate about that which I pretend to know, which admittedly, is still heavily Russian- and not Middle Eastern-oriented.

NB: This disclaimer probably should have appeared as the first or second entry. My bad.