The Levant: On the Road to Damascus -- Cities of Stone, Cities of Sand - The Vagabunda: Journeys Without Borders, #2

The Levant: On the Road to Damascus — Cities of Stone, Cities of Sand is a living book, shaped by years of movement through Syria, Jordan, and the UAE. It begins with an overland crossing from Greece through Turkey into Syria during the late pre‑war months when the country still held its familiar rhythm but the air was beginning to shift. What started as a journey became a life: first working in Syria, then moving to Jordan to begin medical studies, and later tracing the region's cities, borders, and memories.

Written by an archaeologist and historian, the narrative blends travel writing, personal memoir, archaeology, and cultural reflection. It moves through Damascus and Aleppo, the desert roads of Jordan, and the rising skylines of the Gulf, exploring how places remember and how people endure. The author's background shapes the way the Levant is read—through its stones, its ruins, its living cities, and the layers of history that continue to surface in daily life.

Part travelogue, part personal archive, part cultural meditation, this is a narrative that continues to grow—an ongoing conversation with the Levant and with the self.

Complete with photos of the author's lived experience. Since this is a living book, periodic refreshing will reveal later additions and improvements.