Abu Ahmed entered his friend, the owner of the real estate office in the Mezzeh 86 area, and said to him: “I found a shot for you,” and the other answered: How much? Abu Ahmed replied to him with three and a half, and based on his experience in the field of real estate, it is natural for the office owner to ask about the area and the number of rooms, which is what he actually said, except that Abu Ahmed’s answer left his friend confused as a result of that answer.

We usually hear the term “shot”, which means that something is available with excellent specifications and at an excellent price, and this term is often used in real estate offices and car offices, but Abu Ahmed’s answer confirmed that the reins had escaped from the hand holding him, especially his vision of indescribable joy. When he said to him: “A loaf of bread is only 3,500 liras.”                               This realistic dialogue, which actually happened, stands between sadness and laughter. Between the answers of Abu Ahmed and “Safna,” the office owner, are stories of Syrians who suffered what they suffered in the Syrian war and the economic inflation that followed, making what makes you cry make you laugh, and vice versa, and in both cases you are proud that you are still Alive, fighting tragedies with a salary of 300 thousand liras.

Consumer protection has raised the price of a loaf of bread, from 200 liras to 400 liras, knowing that it costs the state about 7,800 liras, while the daily government support for a loaf of bread reaches 42 billion liras, which is equivalent to 13 trillion liras annually!! In addition to the costs of maintenance and renovation, workers’ wages, transportation and distribution, and collateral damage, according to the director of the Syrian Bakeries, Muayad Al-Rifai, quoting local sources.