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Aleppo bathhouse boom as Syria crisis turns showers cold

  • Aleppo's bathhouses have for centuries served as a social hub where men come together to wash, listen to music and even eat
  • In Hammam al-Qawwas, one of more than 50 traditional bathhouses in Aleppo's Old City, diesel fuel and firewood are used to power furnaces providing hot water and steam.
By AFP ·