Remembering Aleppo: I wrote this piece about Aleppo, Syria, exactly two years ago. I later included it in The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places, which was published a year later. But it was originally intended as a blog post. I lived for years kin Aleppo and wanted to tell people that it was not an anonymous flashpoint on the evening news, but one of the most ancient and extraordinary places on earth. I'm glad I didn't know that, two years on, things in Aleppo (and Syria in general) would be even worse.

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