"Syrian Islamic revival has woman's touch"

After far too long, with endless ideas coming and going (and going nowhere), a brief note of an article just seen on the BBC news web-site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7710822.stm

As so often, there seem to be concurrent movements in both conservative and flexible directions. The situation in Syria is worth watching: Assad's wooing of the West, combined with the ?destruction of the Baath party in Iraq following the invasion in 2003, and an increasing fascination with the earliest days of Christian faith in the area (from Paul in Damascus onwards), and a consequently greater number of visits to Syria being offered on the market, all make for an interesting resurgence.