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They can dance in the streets to songs that curse the Assad family. And I want to talk to you about Friday prayers at this historic Ummayed Mosque in the old city where there's the Saladin tomb.

Morning Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

And I want to talk to you about Friday prayers at this historic Ummayed Mosque in the old city where there's the Saladin tomb. And people just thronged inside, some who could never pray there because ...