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From the famed Khan Assad Pasha, a caravanserai in Old Damascus, to the courtyard of the Damascus Citadel, he wants to showcase what his tired country still has to offer.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

We took the roof off the Italianate, turn-of-the-century British pavilion and rebuilt the interior as an Ottoman caravanserai, inserting the traces of an earlier work I had made for the Istanbul Biennial in 2003.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2019

A more accurate translation, Strauss said, is “a guest room in a private house or a shelter, a caravanserai, where caravans stop.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2018

At Emilio Pucci, fashion’s caravanserai has moved from Capri to Ibiza, as the designer Peter Dundas is determined to move the brand from its native Florence to a mythical haute Bohemia.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2010

I wondered if I should apologize to Samir as our weary caravan tottered toward the lights of the lost caravanserai.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri