by Irene Butler Pics by Rick Damascus – one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world – and the locals claim it is the oldest “capital” in the world. A feast of the senses surrounded us. The architecture holds a richness as glorious as it’s past. The chaos of traffic not adhering to lanes, and the sidewalks of side streets are full of parked vehicles. The tantalizing scent of pressed chicken rotating on a spit, hardly browning before being sliced off in sliver thin bits and packed into circular flat bread slathered with yogurt – called a...