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حمامات دمشق الشعبية تصمد في وجه الساونا
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يستقبل أجواء الأفراح والأعراس يؤمه السياح للترفيه والاستجمام ومن يدخله لا يخرج مثلما كان هذا ما يقوله المثل العامي عن هذا المكان: دخول الحمام مش متل طلوعو.

إنها الحمامات الشعبية أو ما يعرف بحمام السوق التي تعتبر من إحدى المعالم التاريخية والسياحية الهامة التي تميزت بها سوريا عبر العصور حيث يعود تاريخ إنشائها إلى بداية العهد الأموي.

مثلت هذه الحمامات منذ ظهورها والى يومنا هذا مقصداً شعبياً له مزاياه الخاصة وطقوسه الاحتفالية يجد فيه قاصده ملاذاً للتخلص من متاعبه الجسدية وضغوطاته النفسية ومكاناً للاغتسال والاستجمام ونادياً اجتماعياً مصغراً يلتقي فيه الأحبة لتجاذب أطراف الحديث والترفيه عن الذات وما يؤكد نجاحها هو استمرار وجودها وحفاظها على مظهرها وتصاميمها الشرقية الأصيلة رغم ظهور الحمامات المنزلية والبخارية العصرية "الساونا".

وقال أمجد الرز مدير مدينة دمشق القديمة إن الحمامات الدمشقية تعتبر من أشهر الحمامات في الشرق كله وأنك لتجد فيها روائع الفن الإسلامي بطراز عمارتها وزخارفها ونقوشها حيث أبدع المعماريون في بناء هذه الحمامات فرصعوا جدرانها بالقاشاني وفرشوا أرضها بالرخام وعقدوا على أطراف قبابها عقود الجص النافرة كما أقاموا نظاماً هندسياً بارعاً لتزويدها بالمياه الساخنة.

وأشار الرز إلى أن عدد الحمامات في مدينة دمشق هي 65 حماماً يعمل منها 12 حماماً فقط مضيفاً بأن مديرية مدينة دمشق القديمة تقوم بتسهيل إجراءات الترميم والترخيص للحفاظ على هذه المهنة مؤكداً بأنه يتم حالياً ترميم وإعادة تأهيل حمام الناصري الذي توقف عن العمل منذ الأربعينيات وسيعاد افتتاحه هذا العام بهدف المحافظة على هذا الإرث الأصيل.

من جهته قال محمد كنعان مالك حمام البكري والذي يعود تاريخ بنائه إلى أكثر من أربعمئة عام إن سبب بقاء هذه الحمامات إلى يومنا هذا هو حفاظها على نمطها العمراني الأصيل وأجوائها وطقوسها الحميمة مشيراً في الوقت نفسه إلى أن السبب في تراجع عدد الحمامات اليوم يعود إلى تطور الحالة الاجتماعية والاقتصادية لدى الناس واستغنائهم عن الحمامات الشعبية.

وقال كنعان ان معظم الأسر الكبيرة في الماضي كانت تقطن في منزل واحد حيث الأبناء والزوجات والأحفاد، الأمر الذي جعل من الصعوبة استخدام الجميع لحمام واحد فكان حمام السوق يفي بالغرض للرجال والنساء على حد سواء.

أما اليوم فقد أصبحت الأسر أصغر حجماً والأبناء باتوا يفضلون العيش في بيوت مستقلة وبالتالي لم يعد حمام السوق يشكل بالنسبة للغالبية العظمى من سكان المدينة سوى ذكريات جميلة.

وأشار كنعان إلى أن أغلب الحمامات الشعبية ما زالت تحتفظ بنمطها العمراني القديم من حيث الحجرات والأقسام التي تختلف فيها درجة الحرارة بحسب دورها الوظيفي، مشيراً إلى أن أصل تقسيم الحمام إلى أربع حجرات وفصلها عن بعضها البعض هي مقاربتها لفصول السنة وما يلاقيه جسد الإنسان من برد وحرارة واعتدال فيها.

وأضاف كنعان بأن الحمام الدمشقي يتألف من أربعة أقسام هي البارد أو "البراني" وهو القسم الخارجي من الحمام وفيه يقوم الزبائن بخلع ملابسهم عند الدخول وارتدائها عند الخروج ويتكون هذا القسم من باحة تتوسطها بركة ماء يحيط بها مساطب مفروشة بالأرائك والمساند يستريح عليها المستحمون بعد انتهائهم من الاستحمام وهذا القسم مسقوف بقبة عالية محاطة بالنوافذ الزجاجية.

ثم يلي ذلك القسم قسم الفاتر "الوسطاني" والذي يعتبر مرحلة انتقالية معتدل الحرارة حتى لا يصطدم جسم المستحمّ مباشرة بالساخن وهو مسقوف بقباب تحتوي على فتحات زجاجية ينفذ من خلالها ضوء الشمس إلى الداخل حيث المساطب التي يستريح عليها المستحمون خلال فترات الاستحمام الداخلي "الجواني" وهو الجزء الأهم.

وهنا تتم عملية الاستحمام والتعرق وعمليات التدليك وهذا القسم ذو حرارة مرتفعة مقارنة بالأقسام الأخرى من الحمام يتكون من إيوانين متقابلين يتوضعان على طرفي "بيت النار" وضمن كل إيوان يوجد "جرن" أو أكثر يحتوي على ماء ساخن ينساب من بيت النار عبر شبكة تجري تحت أرض الحمام، كما يتفرع عن كل من الإيوانين غرف تحتوي كل منها على جرن خاص بها وهذا القسم أيضاً مسقوف بقبة ذات فتحات زجاجية.

أما القسم الأخير او "القميم" فهو جناح خارجي ملحق بالحمام كان يتم فيه تسخين الماء من قبل عامل يسمى "القميمي" عن طريق حرق القمامة المجففة وروث الحيوانات ونشارة الخشب.

ونوه كنعان إلى أنه تم الاستغناء عن القسم الأخير بعد الاعتماد على أساليب حديثة في تسخين الماء.

بدوره أوضح أبو هيثم المعلم في حمام الشيخ رسلان بأن الحمامات ما زالت تحتفظ بالكثير من طقوسها المتوارثة والتي كانت تقام في الماضي داخل الحمامات مثل حمام العرس حيث يستحم العريس مع ثلة من أصدقائه وسط أجواء الفرح والغناء قبل يوم زفافه.

وحمام "الغمرة" تقيمه أم العريس لصديقاتها ومعارفها وحمام "الفسخ النفاس" وحمام الولادة لمن ولدت مؤخراً وحمام "الأربعين" حيث تحمم المرأة المنجبة بعد ولادتها بأربعين يوماً وسط الاحتفال بالمولود الجديد.

وقال أبو هيثم إن الكثير من زبائن اليوم هم من السياح الراغبين في الاستجمام والتمتع بأجواء الحمامات الدمشقية مشيراً إلى أن بعض المرضى الذين يعانون من آلام الظهر والنقرس وحالات الشد العضلي يرتادون الحمام للاستفادة من غرف البخار والمساج.

وأضاف أبو هيثم بأنه في الماضي كان لكل حي حمامه الخاص به حيث يجتمع فيه رجال الحي ليتحدثوا في شؤون الحي أما بالنسبة للنساء فكان حمام السوق المكان الأفضل لقضاء الأوقات والاستجمام والبحث بين الفتيات المرتادات للحمام عن الزوجة المناسبة لأولادهم.

من جهته، قال موفق حمامي صاحب حمام نور الدين الشهيد بأن تاريخ تأسيس حمامه يعود إلى عام 1180 وهو يشكل أرث أجداده بالإضافة إلى كونه أحد المعالم السياحية الهامة لبلده.

وأكد حمامي الذي بدا محباً لمهنته بأن الكثيرين من مالكي الحمامات الشعبية قاموا بتغير مهنتهم بحجة الدافع المادي إلا أنه يأبى فعل ذلك حفاظاً على مهنة الأجداد مضيفاً بأنه بصدد افتتاح حمام ثان خاص بالنساء.

وأشار حمامي إلى أنه قام بترميم الحمام في عام 1980 بإشراف مديرية الآثار والمتاحف رغبة منه في المحافظة على شكله ونمطه القديم ودعم أساساته.

من جانبه، قال محمد الياسري وهو أحد الزبائن أنه اعتاد المجيء إلى الحمام مع أصدقائه لما يحس به من راحة وطمأنينة بعد الاستحمام وسط البخار.

يشار إلى أن الكثيرين من الرحالة والمؤرخين كتبوا عن الحمامات الدمشقية كابن بطوطة في كتابه "تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار" وابن عساكر الذي أورد في كتابه الشهير "تاريخ دمشق" أسماء سبعة وخمسين حماماً يعمل في زمنه ضمن مدينة دمشق.

كما ذكر المؤرخ ابن شداد أسماء 114 حماماً موجوداً في دمشق سنة 1250، أما ابن جبير فيذكر أنه كان بدمشق ما يقارب المائة حمام عند زيارته لها سنة 1185 وبقيت أعداد هذه الحمامات تتراوح بين زيادة ونقصان حتى أصبح عددها في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر بحدود الستين.

يذكر أن الحمامات العاملة داخل سور دمشق القديمة هي حمام نور الدين الشهيد الذي بناه السلطان نور الدين زنكي عام 1170 وحمام الملك الظاهر الذي يعود تاريخ بنائه إلى أيام الملك ظاهر بيبرس في القرن الرابع الهجري وحمام السلسلة وحمام الشيخ رسلان وحمام البكري بينما العاملة خارج السور هي حمامات أمونة والمقدم والتيروزي وفتحي وعز الدين وسامي.

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June 29, 2009 | 4:14 AM Comments  0 comments

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Bossing your thoughts
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It is a very sunny sky to start your gloomy day with. You come to your office after very short stressful weekend with an open heart to work and all you want and desire is to invest your knowledge and efforts for the best of this world. You drop off the car and cross the street toward the very old building that lacks any connection to a healthy environment (so-called environment commission building) you are choking with the stinky smells coming out of the basement, you start climbing the stairs and counting the dead insects that are laying everywhere. You just opened the old door of this apartment aged over 70 years old (climate change project office) with a very smiley face despite all the previously mentioned to find your colleague in his unemployment phobia hallucinations caused by an early morning call from the boss, telling him that he missed up unintentionally and that it cant be forgiven!!!

After these great steps toward work everyday, you got this feeling, of nothingness and helplessness, cause you are hanging there and you cant change, and you want to change, and you decide in an internal conflict with your soul "let the climate change!!!" what if the climate wants to change, why we have to combat it and fight it , and convince it with our own methods to change back, let it change so people know what consequences comes out of their behaviors, and let the reaction respond to the action. Wasting the life with silly things and waiting the destiny to draw out the red line so we can cross or not to cross over.

Fire your thoughts and tell people around you that you are not blind neither a dumb, and you are capable to do things in the right way and got rewarded for that, tell them that you need to be appreciated, and that if you didn’t do the things on their mistaken way it is still right and it is your right to decide whether to work in here or to leave.

Tell them that you don’t wish to live in the street and make your wife spend all her savings on the necessity of survival, just because you promised her with a baby boy or girl making this summer..

Tell her that you want it to live in poverty, and not to live in a mince dignity.
Draw, dream, and act.. Refuse to be substance to other.. And " Ina allaha yarzoq man yasha'o be ghair hesaab"

Best ,
Wiaam

June 28, 2009 | 7:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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early moring call
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What a lovely voice to hear at the early morning, the first and the only voice ever you wish to hear all the time, like a lovely song that sticking to you for the whole life but you never wish to get rid of, but to keep it as a companion soul.

June 26, 2009 | 6:24 AM Comments  0 comments

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Day of final appreciation
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Since our boss in a long term vacation, I decided to work on the pending issues, starting from the consultants terms of references and contracts, to the interviews and minutes of meeting, and preparation of the workshops and turning to technical issues that I am not even a specialized with, and so ..

And at the fifth day of the week and after loads of pending papers and works that have been done, I got an email , with simple words thanking me for the initiative and asking the boss to take over his own responsibilities as a director.

Well, I was not impressed by the way with these hallow words of appreciation, but I was more interested in the fact that after 2 years of project implementation period, some one notice that he done nothing, and he knows nothing, and that out of sudden someone decided to ask him to take over his responsibility and fulfill his tasks and informing me officially that I am not obliged to do so.

Throughout these few years, I congratulated myself for experience I got and things I learned despite the stress and the fatigue that I had to deal with every single day, not mentioning the tears of the heart when you scream of hatred for his stupidity and ignorance deep inside and no one there to listen.

I was thinking right now, if I have to be happy right now, or as it should be in this empty building filled with spirit of past employees and prisoners of silence to remain numb and listen to their whispers from the unknown??

Yours,
Wiaam

June 25, 2009 | 6:02 AM Comments  0 comments

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Opportunity for young short movie maker
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“Enabling activities for preparation of Syria’s initial national communication to UNFCCC”

This project is implementing by UNDP Syria CO, and the state ministry for environmental affairs, the project is seeking a young talented documentary movie maker to produce a movie on Climate change in Syria, and the environmental risks in this region.

The Candidate should have:

- University degree in Media or any related studies

-Strong communication skills

- Strong environmental background, and aware of UNDP rules and regulation, previous experience in UN agencies is preferable

-Handles the work pressure and finalizes the movie within the specific period as per the TOR

-Relevant experience in the same issue is an asset

This post is opened for young Arab nationals only.

For those who are interested please forward their CVs along with cover letter on the following address: Wiaam.youssef@undpprojects.sy no later than Monday 29th July 2009 reference: INC-MOVI:2




June 25, 2009 | 3:24 AM Comments  0 comments

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فلسطينية "معاقة" محتجزة تحت منزل عائلتها منذ 20 عاماً
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Palestinian “handicapped” withheld under house her family since 20 year
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The Palestinian police on girl found built her 32[e'aamaaAA] placed in cellar under house of decaying her since 20[e'aamaaAA] and the reason at that for her injury in equipments from [aal'ie'aaqaat].

Palestinian agency Al-Anba reported that he “conservative stumble police of Hebron, on his boy environmental circumstances bad make a living in dignity of human does not befit in, in house one of of cities north of east of the city falls in”.

The agency added that “the girl which found on her, Tuesday, does not see listening followed followed speaks, and motive hit in retardation”.

Manager police of Hebron said, the colonel Ramadan is compensation, indeed him the finding on the girl was complete “during search police of the tourism and the effects for one of houses of city east of Hebron falls north of, in place grow up him the cellar”.

Following compensation indeed him “does not create for him (the cellar) any ventilation apart from the door main, and be sent from him bad odor, and unfit woke, and her house falls under of family, and living of the girl in him on timbering since more than twenty year”.

Compensation added that this circumstances which make a living in her the girl “other than accepted in customs our and our Islamic traditions and our debt, who dignity of the human and his stimulated on respect, and saving of all spike [mn] ['ajl] dignified living”.

Manager of the relationships said general and the information in police pioneer Hebron Ahmed [e'Taawnt] indeed him “transfer was complete composed him to governmental hospital Hebron, by means of red relief the crescent, and medical inspection yielded to, and comers have fun the needed cure”.

Indicates until does not introduce still in the event of the security devices were measures will take against the needy girl, hit her the agency said “indeed the authorities sent welfare assistants for continuation of the case which charitable association the charity referred to, for insurance circumstances of environmental suitable and the complete care”.


June 25, 2009 | 3:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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Bride's Diary
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Another day with loads of work to be done, and you are just thinking of how to make your life easier, you woke up with the feeling that all the things would be done by themselves and that the problems would be solved once you brush your teeth and drink your coffee. But the sun start to faint out and the streets become suddenly full of exhausted people who are rushing into these small busses.

I decided not and never to be weak this week and to do what I planned for this morning, the appointment I reserved with the doctor few weeks ago to be fixed by today and the therapy sessions be attend. And what if I am some how late to work, does that makes me feel awful and unproductive, while all I did for the last few years was only working, two of them were with a couple of narrow minded and selfish persons who lack professionalism, whom thinking if they failed with their tasks on deadlines, I will be there to make up and correct their mistakes.

My schedule for now is followed with respect, I completed my first personal task and put myself in the priority list, and here I am in my office and on my desk, as determined to finish this small review about my day so far, and thinking of the few things that I will be doing in the next few hours, the second appointment with my friend to chose some of the essentials for my July project is also fixed at 5 o'clock.

You might be wondering now, what kind of project I would be able to do when I am overloaded and stressed out, and have no way to find a proper manner to think in the meantime. But I wanted to confirm by writing these few words that I am capable of carrying the burden of the earth over my shoulders, and calling for peace and justice and human rights, besides empowering women, and we might be in need to concentrate on this last one more, since I am lacking for any kind of power right now and I am a woman.

Anyhow, I will be updating myself with the development when any new things showed up.

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"هل استمتعت يوماً بفشــلك؟"
Related to country: Lebanon

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“is your day enjoyed in failure?"
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