In Damascus, rare glass blowers 捜し出す to keep （手先の）技術 alive
Mohamed al-Hallak and his brothers are the last family to keep up the tradition of glass-blowing in Syria's 資本／首都 Damascus, によれば a （手先の）技術 協会
In Syria's 資本／首都, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into 大波ing red-hot glass, trying to keep his 病弱なing （手先の）技術 alive にもかかわらず a war that keeps （弁護士の）依頼人s away.
"We're the last family to be working in glass blowing in Damascus. I'm 脅すd the profession will disappear," said the 62-year-old artisan.
Clutching the metal 麻薬を吸う, he swings a 有望な orange glass ball around in circles at arm's length to 冷静な／正味の it off, before 急落（する），激減（する）ing it 支援する into a furnace.
Sitting in 前線 of the oven, he then 作品 速く with large pincers to 圧力（をかける） 負かす／撃墜する the curves of the translucent globe and transform it into a tall drinking glass.
"The pieces we work on have soul," he told AFP inside his modest workshop, 解任するing the machines that have today 取って代わるd the millennia-old （手先の）技術.
With a 熱烈な twinkle in his 注目する，もくろむ, he 述べるd the 行う／開催する／段階s of 伝統的な glass 生産／産物 he learnt from his forefathers.
"We have to sort through the broken glass, put it in the furnace, take it out, blow into the molten glass, 形態／調整 it up, and decorate it," he said.
"A machine 噴出するs out 20 drinking glasses a second, but here we need a ４半期/4分の1 of an hour to finish each item."
Mohammed and his two brothers, Mustafa and Khaled, learnt the secrets of the （手先の）技術 from their father, who 相続するd the 技術s from his own father.
But Mohammed has not managed to pass on the 貿易（する） to his own children.
"They didn't want to learn the profession as it's not financially viable," he said, pausing from 絵 an intricate white pattern on a dark blue glass ornament.
Mohammed says （弁護士の）依頼人s have become rare since war 爆発するd in his country in 2011, keeping tourists away from the covered alleyways and markets of old Damascus.
"Hardly anyone buys handmade glass anymore -- just some 大使館 従業員s, hotels and restaurants," he said.
"It's not enough to keep the （手先の）技術 alive."
The intricate 過程 entails sorting through br oken glass, putting it in a furnace, taking it out, blowing into the molten glass, 形態／調整ing it and finally decorating it
Fuad Arbash, the 長，率いる of Syria's oriental （手先の）技術 professions 協会, said glass blowing had been around in Syria for centuries.
Phoenicians are believed to have invented the art more than 2,000 years ago on what is today the coast of 隣人ing Lebanon.
によれば legend, the seafaring merchants discovered a 実体 that could be stretched and moulded, running out from under the マリファナs they used to cook their meals along the sandy beach.
The Hallak family is the last to keep up the tradition in the 資本／首都 -- "perhaps even in the whole of Syria", Arbash （人命などを）奪う，主張するd.
He said he hoped that 持つ／拘留するing workshops might encourage the younger 世代 to 選ぶ up glass-blowing and other disappearing （手先の）技術s, but 譲歩するd that the 衝突 was a major 障害.
"This profession 大部分は depends on tourists and 訪問者s from abroad. Today it's fighting to 生き残る," Arbash 追加するd.
