This gallery of images brings together photographs already presented on other pages of Beloved Syria. When I took these pictures, I was given permission to present them online -to a world that knows so little about life in Syria, so little about the remarkable warmth and spirit of Syrians.
(Note: It is very possible some of the images were taken a year before or after stated in the text.)
Susan Dirgham, August 2023
Family, old Damascus, 2009
Medical student, Damascus University, 2008
Friends, Beit Jabri, 2009
Mother and daughter, CD shop, old Damascus, 2009
Colleague at British Council
Young doctor, Damascus, 2010
Woman waiting for friend, Beit Jabri, 2009
Uni students, Shamiat restaurant, 2008
Employee at Cham Palace Hotel, 2008
Friends, Al-Nawfara Cafe, 2009
Waitress in Down Town Cafe, Damascus, 2008
Friendly face, cafe, Damascus, 2008
Friendly faces in cafe, Damascus, 2010
Shy hotel receptionist, 2010
Easter parade, 2005
Afif, Damascus, 2004
Madam Janset Kazan, MP, 2019
Raed Jabri, Beit Jabri, 2019
Beit Jabri, Damascus, 2019
Ms Shaheedi Ajeeb, 2019
Maha al-Altrash, 2019
Mahdi AlMahdi, composer, musician, 2019
Bank manager with her colleagues, 2010
Athar, Scout leader, 2019
Apamea, 2004
Mustafa Ali, Damascus, 2009
Rasha, translator, writer, filmmaker, 2019
‘Teacher Nisreen’, Dar Al Salam School, 2019
English class at Dar Al Salam School, Sept 2019
Beit Jabri, 2009
Uni students from Damascus, Krak des Chevaliers, 2010
