Hassahn's family-run antique and crafts emporium, located in a charming Ottoman-era shop building close to the Ummayad Mosque entrance, is one of the most charming stores in the old town. The tiny shop has a good assortment of Aleppo soap, artwork, and postcards and sells Ross Burns' superb book Monuments of Syria (2000). The counter acts as a repository for the business cards of the shop's customers, including diplomats, foreigners, and tourists, and there always seems to be a visitor enjoying tea in the corner with the chairs – and you could be the next one.