In the years before Syria's war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their ...
ARWAD, Syria - In the years before Syria’s war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their wooden vessels along the Mediterranean coast down to Lebanon and up to Turkey, but the trade has withered.
While other areas suffered terrible shelling, air strikes and gun battles, or were subjected to car bombs and suicide attacks, life in Arwad has quietly continued. Syria’s economic implosion has also inflicted a painful reduction in tourism, once a lucrative business for an island proud of its maritime heritage.
But he sees little future in it, with Lebanon having introduced higher import tariffs, the frontier with Turkey closing because of the war and prices going up because of the difficulty of importing some materials.
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