#national holiday
As Egypt on Sunday celebrated its annual October 6 Victory Day, commemorating the 1973 Arab-Israeli war known in Israel as the Yom Kippur War, neighboring Syria drew attention across Arab media for a strikingly different move. President Ahmad al-Sharaa has issued a decree reshaping the country’s official calendar and abolishing several long-standing national holidays. The new order, announced in Damascus, eliminates four commemorations that had been observed under former President Bashar al-Assad. Among them are March 8 Revolution Day, Teachers’…
