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Written by : Tam Hussein | http://www.majalla.com/eng/2013/02/article55238348

on : Saturday, 16 Feb, 2013

Homemade in Lattakia

Tam Hussein goes behind the scenes with fighters in Syria's principle port city.

BACKGAMMON blog: A board game played in smoky cafes from Beirut to Baghdad. Backgammon’s earliest ancestor is five thousand years old and was unearthed in southern Iraq. Modern-day descendants teach players survival skills beyond the game: although luck is involved, strategy wins out in the long run. ‘Backgammon’ covers the state of play in the countries spanning the Fertile Crescent: Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.