“Images form My Country” Highlights Syria’s Cultural, Tourist, Archaeological Sites

 Thanks to his fifty years old experience in photography, artist Issam Al-Nouri has been able to professionally picture the most important archaeological, heritage, tourist, cultural and religious sites in Syria.

In his photography exhibition, “Images from my Country”, Al-Nouri tried to enrich the knowledge of Arab and foreign people about Syria’s great history.

In cooperation with the “Association of Friends of Damascus”, the exhibition, which was opened recently in Abu Remaneha Cultural Center,  displayed 77 black and white as well as colored photographs depicting most famous old Damascene lanes, houses, and alleys. His Camera monitored magic, beauty and histroy, especially in the Umayyad Mosque, Tukeia Sulaymaniyah , Medhat Pasha Souk, al-Azem Palace and Maktab Anbar.

Beside the ancient Damascene sites,  Al- Nouri was able also to monitor many important archaeological sites in different Syrian governorates, before being renovated and expanded. These archaeological sites included the ancient city of Palmyra, which he documented in black and white pictures in 1965, as well as the Krak des Chevaliers (Al-Husen Citadel) in addition to the marvelous natural scenes in the Syrian coast area.

Talking to the press about his experience in photography, artist al- Nouri said that a lot of his paintings have expressed much nostalgia to certain places he had visited, including a place in occupied al-Quds called “Jetmani” where a huge olive tree stands and where Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, had held prayers.

Artist Al-Nouri held many collective and individual exhibitions in different Syrian governorates.

The artist, who has a Bachelor of  Law, was born in 1938.

Raghda Sawas