Damascus clubbers try to dance away constant threat of death

“When night falls in Damascus, gaggles of determined revellers still head out on the town seeking to drown out the thunder of outgoing artillery fire with the boom of music. The shells are raining down on suspected rebel positions in suburbs just a few kilometres away but, while most people lock themselves fearfully in their homes, some head out to try to forget the war on their doorstep.  ‘I come here for a change of atmosphere,’ says Mohammad, a 25-year-old car salesman, who has clearly had a drink or three. ‘There is joy here,’ he says of the nightclub in the upscale Shaalan neighbourhood, where the barman juggles bottles of spirits. ‘I want to live, I don’t want to hear any more bad news.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/17/damascus-clubbers-try-to-dance-away-constant-threat-of-death/

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