A few days before the start of the month of Ramadan, he lowered the stairs outside of a bank in the Syria's capital, and Damascus waits for the amount of $ 15 to take the equivalent of $ 15.
The new government has a large number of festivities for the severance of this amount in Syrian banks in Syrian banks, which will generally be a large number of festivities for the holy fast month.
“Maybe a weight loss and meat can get half of the meat,” Silyan Davoud, a 56-year-old civil engineer in the ATM line in Syria pounds, is a 56-year-old civil engineer. “What about bread, vegetables and fruits? Ramadan is coming and we should spend.”
75, Ra'if Ghnaim, who is a retired officer, thought that the children will ensure the tradition of providing children to children at the end of the people.
“How will we celebrate children and give gifts?” asked.
This year Ramadan falls after three months Ouster of Assad dictatorship Syria managed with an iron for more than five decades. The rebel coalition, which took the government in Damascus, made a number of economic changes.
Froze The market has opened imported products. He eliminated the bread subsidies – the staple food is 10 times more expensive. Thousands threw the public sector employees. And to withdraw cash in ATMs
The prices of many more than bread fell because the new government has been seized, but can still get them due to the construction of a large economy of Syrians, credit cards and electronic payments.
Try to spend several hours or even days to make money or even have enough cash to get cash, with large family gatherings and feasts.
Syria worm pounds and the government began to strengthen more than a decade of decades, because the government began to change economic policy.
Before the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, there were 50 Syrian pounds in US dollars. When the government is overthrown in December, it was about 15 thousand, but since today.
The Syrian Central Bank, the Ministry of Economy and the Interior Ministry did not answer questions.
The Central Bank was taken to the expression in the testimony of December, and the measures will be temporary, he said. But now they lasted for months.
This month, according to the state news media, a planeline of a new mint of Syria from Russia, where printed. The amount was not open.
“They don't really have bank records. They have a liquidity crisis,” said a political economist and a political economist at the New Lines Institute, which met with Syrian officials.
“The current monetary policy under consideration of the Central Bank is not completed and is not appropriate,” he said.
According to the United Nations, more than 90 percent of the Syrians live in poverty, and a quarter is unemployed. Many suffer in long bank lines in the country and across the country.
“We must cancel Suhoor,” Mahmoud Embarak, 60-year-old retired serviceman Mahmoud Embarak, said after eating before dawn, before eating before the day.
He recently reduced the pension of a new government and his family has now lived the nurse pension of his wife.
“It will not be happy in a period as in the past,” said Mr. Embarak.
45-year-old Ahlam, Ramadan is remembered, he said.
The bank line was waiting for 200,000 Syrian pounds (about $ 15) 380,000 (about $ 15), the Ministry of Agriculture was waiting to withdraw $ 380,000 (about $ 28).
“They said the government did not have any money and said there was no central bank, there are no banks,” he said. “We have a lot of questions and no answer.”
Thus, along with his husband, he took a minibus from Saboora, which was about 10 miles, and each made 10,000 Syrian pounds to get an ATM in the Damascus bank.
Another day to withdraw the rest of the salary will have another trip.
This is not yet to take a long time for his family – it's less to break the fastest characteristics of Ramadan for great meetings.
“Dinner will not be parties or something,” said Mrs. Kasem, who was part of the three-month-old salary.
As he spoke, a man trying to get a worker's attention inside a man, pressed the bank's metal door. No one came.
“Now, a cup of coffee in Syria can have a lot of difficulty to offer someone else,” he said. “We are a very social human being, but a cup of coffee, less lunch or for dinner, we fell to the point where we did not want to visit anyone.”
These concerns were on the mind in a bustle group of shops and street vendors in the Bab Saijeh market, in the oldest Cobblestone street in Damascus. Sometimes the voice of motorcycles of cars drowned the offerings of the sellers.
“On, ten, in charge free”, a guilt repeatedly, offers a kilogram olive from a dollar to less than a dollar.
In a small shop that sells Ramadan decorations – wooden crescent months, colorful headlights and string lights – were mostly calm. Sometimes someone asked about the decoration price and then walked without taking anything.
“People do not have money,” he said, 37 people who helped her husband in the shop. “Banks do not have money, Syria has no money.”
Last year, the items flew off the shelves, his husband said. Now people just buy the needs.
“Ramadan atmosphere will weaken this year,” said Anwar Hamid.
Fatima Husseini Ali, 56 years old and husband, Ha'il Ali Jasser, 59, each filled several filled grocery bags, cheese bags, cheese and flour on the market.
Ramazan staples – Olive leaves, oil, rice, bulgur wheat – President Bashar al-Assad is cheaper than alive. However, the couple, who are eight children, were still less than the previous Ramada.
“Prices are cheap, but there is no money,” he said.
Except for bread passing from 400 pounds to 4,000 pounds.
This year, he doubted that they hosted any dinner parties. If they did, he joked and their guests may need to ask BYOB: Bring your own bread.