Local restaurant to donate part of months proceeds to help earthquake victims

The plush Ammoora restaurant features the food and culture of Owner Jay Salkini’s homeland in Syria, and now, just a matter of weeks after opening its doors, it’s turning its focus towards those suffering in the aftermath of this week’s earthquake and the dozens of aftershocks, which have followed.

“I do have family. I do have friends, and I have a very large business in the area that was destroyed,” Salkini told us.

After more than a decade of civil unrest, those here fear that Syria has become one of the world’s lost countries.

That is why this prominent businessman here in Maryland for more than three decades has long supported the refugee crisis in that region with millions of Syrians now living in Turkey.

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