lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Modern Syria

Upper class Syrian women hang out in a hip restaurant in Damascus. Both of these women have been selling couture clothing from their homes for years, defying the import ban by the Syrian government on foreign clothes. The ban was recently lifted, and the women will compete with a rash of new couture clothing stores springing up across damascus. April 2006
Damascus, Syria
Upper class Syrian women hang out in a hip restaurant in Damascus. Both of these women have been selling couture clothing from their homes for years, defying the import ban by the Syrian government on foreign clothes. The ban was recently lifted, and the women will compete with a rash of new couture clothing stores springing up across damascus. April 2006