Al-Kiswah (Arabic: الكسوة Al Kiswah also spelled Kissoué/Kiswe) is a city in the Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria.

It was the location of the 1303 Battle of Marj al-Saffar, and the childhood home of Adnan Awad.

[1] According to a tradition related by Yaqut al-Hamawi, this is because the king of Rum sent some messengers to demand tribute from a figure named King Ghassan; he had the messengers killed and then, at the site of al-Kiswah, he had their garments divided up.

[1] Yaqut and Ibn Battuta both described al-Kiswah as the first stage on the hajj route out of Damascus.

[1] He also wrote that it lay on a stream called the Nahr al-A'waj which flowed down from the "mountain of snow", i.e. Mount Hermon.