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I am Syrian

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America "adopted" some food from Syria. One food America adopted from Syria is hummus.

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Palmyra

The Bride of the Desert – important oasis where travelers can rest and replenish themselves to continuing their travel through the dessert.
Tadmor – means “the town that repels” or the “indomitable town”. The place got that name because even when the city was conquered by Romans and the Muslim Arabs, it was pretty much left on its own.

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A Syrian coin is called a lera. A lera is $0.002 compared to a dollar, 500 leras can become a dollar. It used to be 50 leras is equal a dollar but since the war, it is now 500.

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A Religious Practice (instead of a rite of passage)

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A Religious Practice (instead of a rite of passage)

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On Good Friday, all girl and boy scouts of any age go on the street walking and performing sad music on french horns, drums, and crash symbols while walking around the church during a ceremony.

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When you greet someone you can shake hands or hug, but you can also kiss their cheeks from, side to side, if they are the same gender or a relative.

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They vote for their leader.

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Bashar al-Assad is the 19th president of Syria who has been president since July 17, 2000

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Ingredients- ground meat, creamy meat, bulgur, onion,salt, 7 spices, cumin, hot spice
Steps-
1. Soak bulgur in water until it absorbs it
2. The put the bulgur in a mixer and add all the spices, salt, the onions, and the creamy meat
3. Mix it until the consistency is like dough
4. Then prepare the stuffing by cooking the ground meat, onion, spices, and salt
5. Start shaping the Kibbeh in a hollow diamond like in the picture
6. Put the stuffing inside the hollow half diamond shape
7. then close the diamond up
8. Last step is to fry the diamond- like shaped Kibbeh until it turns a golden-brown and is fully cooked

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In Syria, you have to make a certain type of cookie to celebrate Easter. It is called Ma'amoul and it is a semolina dough that is stuffed with either dates, pistachio, or walnuts. Around Easter there usually has to be a smell of that type of cookie

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أنا أحب الجبن
(I like cheese)

Arabic is read from right- left instead of left-right

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What pushed my mom into coming to America was that she was curious and wanted to explore. What pulled my mom was that her mom, my grandma, was there

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This flag represents the Syrian Arab republic

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My uncle Souhel from my mom's side