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The Damascus Document [a] is an ancient Hebrew text known from both the Cairo Geniza and the Dead Sea Scrolls. [3] [4] It is considered one of the foundational documents of the ancient Jewish community of Qumran. [2] The Damascus Document is a fragmentary text, no complete version of which survives.
The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein on 23 May 1915 by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and al-'Ahd [1] on his second visit to Damascus during a mission to consult Turkish officials in Constantinople.
The Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (HIAST) (Arabic: الْمَعْهَدُ الْعَالِي لِلْعُلُومِ التَّطْبِيقِيَّةِ وَالتِّكْنُولُوجِيِّ, romanized: al-Maʿhad al-ʿĀlī li l-ʿUlūm at-Taṭbīqīyat wa t-Tiknūlūjī) is center of excellence for higher education, research & development in Damascus, Syria.
The university was established in 1979 as Al-Baath University during Ba'athist rule [2] by Presidential Decree No. 44 issued by Hafez al-Assad. [citation needed]As of 2005 the University had 22 faculties, 5 intermediate institutes, 40,000 regular students, [1] 20,000 students in open learning, 1310 high studies students and 622 faculty members.
On al-Sa'id's orders, the governor of Damascus, emir Aydamur, purchased a house opposite the 'Adiliyya Madrasa, in the al-Amara neighbourhood near the Great Umayyad Mosque. [6] The house, called Dar al-'Aqiqi, had originally belonged to the father of Salah ad-Din (Saladin), and Salah ad-Din himself had spent part of his childhood there.
La Caserne Hamidieh - previous headquarter of the Syrian University, is the Faculty of Law building Aerial view of the headquarter in 1933. In 1901, the establishment of the Office of the School of Medicine in Damascus was approved and in 1903 this school, which is the nucleus of the university, opened.
The Arab Academy of Damascus (Arabic: مجمع اللغة العربية بدمشق) is the oldest academy regulating the Arabic language, established in 1918 during the reign of Faisal I of Syria. It is based in al-Adiliyah Madrasa , and is modeled on the language academies of Europe, and founded with an explicit reference to the example of ...
Bab Tuma (Arabic: بَابُ تُومَا, romanized: Bāb Tūmā, meaning: "Gate of Thomas") is a neighborhood located in the Old city of Damascus in Syria. It is one of the seven gates of Damascus, a geographic landmark of Christianity.