Participants at the spine meeting

Dinner with staff of the orthopaedic department

The Whirling Dervishes

Trees with wind-swept deformity along the Damascus-Homs Highway

Qala’ah Al Husn (Castle of the Knights), Homs

View from the Castle

The mosque of Khalid Bin Al Walid, Homs

Azem Palace Museum, Damascus

Old Damascus

Maqam Salahuddin Al Ayubi, (The Tomb of Saladin), Damascus

Classroom in Beit Atfal Assomoud, Bourj Al Shamali, Tyre, Lebanon

Sahar Fares (left) and her siblings at home in Bourj Al Shamali

Fishing harbour, Tyre