A family crosses a busy road.

Posters depicting Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in the Al-Hamidiyah Souq.

An advert for Laughing Cow cheese is reflected in the glass of a bus stop. Through the glass a young man leans against an advertising sign.

A man sits on a chair reading a book outside his late opening shop near the the Al-Hamidiyah Souq.

Taxis drive around Al-Merjeh (Martyrs' Square). The martyrs in question were victims of a French bombardment of the city in 1925. However, the pillar at the centre of the square commemorates the openi...

A man walks past a statue of former President Hafez al-Assad in Central Damascus.

A man crosses a road bridge in Central Damascus.

A road sign in central Damascus points the way to Old Damascus in Arabic and English.

A fashionably dressed, unveiled, woman walks past a modern highrise building in Central Damascus.

A young man carries a sack of goods through a market in the Salihiyya District.

People walk past the walls of the Citadel at night.

A man walks along a street in the Old City.

Two veiled young women wearing lots of pink clothes.

People walk beneath banners, supporting of Lebanon and Hezbollah, hanging in the main entrance to the Al-Hamidiyah Souq.

A couple walk along a street in the Salihiyya District.

People cross a busy road opposite the Al-Hamidiyah Souq.

A man crosses a road in Central Damascus.

Shoppers pass a stall selling women's clothes and veils modelled by mannequins in the Al-Hamidiyah Souq.

A man carrying a box on his head walks past mannequins modelling veils in a stall in the Al-Hamidiyah Souq.

Women shopping in Al-Hamidiyah Souq.