Rubina Tashjian, the widow of the last owner of Aleppo's Baron Hotel, opens the curtains in the presidential suite, where some of the Syrian constitution was written. Aleppo's historic Baron Hotel was founded in 1911 by two Armenian brothers. Guests included David Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, Agatha Christie and Charles Lindbergh.

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