Hammaming in the Sham: A Journey through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond, by Richard Boggs
From: Timeout Beirut
When I lived on the campus of Balamand University near Tripoli, I had over a hundred short texts that recorded encounters, conversations and travels as I bathed my way across Syria, documenting its hammams. I would like to say that I am a focussed and disciplined writer, but I’m not. With the quiet isolation of life on that holy mountain near Tripoli – the jackals calling across the hills at night – I had the ideal opportunity to write…
