 Here today, it's a good chance for me to tell you something about how to manage daily life as possible in Same situation in war. I mean So I will start just to give you an idea What I'm going to tell you some details some stories profile stories Something happened with me with friends with what I saw in the way to the work. What's happened in the work whatsoever So this and this Destruction are everywhere in Syria. Syrians are a good open-minded and joyful people However, the war has taken everything from them today The constantly face destruction and this So what I'm going to tell you about just I would like to read to know how what's what's What's I'm going to tell you and how many things you have to arrangement in in same situation like war or civil war or conflict so first and the most important thing as safety and Housing destroying houses and the refugees come inside and outside Syria economic problems and their effects on Syrian society every day Survival and condition in the message area Electricity and hating Transportation difficulty of movement and Arbitrary arrested hospitals and medical supplies school and education Children's toys during the war University live and Something and of course fleeing to the country to Iceland in Europe and something from my experience during this conflict I would like to start to say like Syria was before a very Happy country full of happiness joyful. We have a lot of many things many festival Everywhere in Syria, you can see in the image for example You can see this is for example Sorry, this is a Palmyra festival And we have a lot of parties. We have a song Arab festival. We have cost festival body a festival I mean we have all of these good things that makes a people Happiness like in Europe. I mean here for example in in in in Switzerland There's a fast for her best fast for for every time. There's some activities I'm just living close to Basel all the time. There's some Activities just to make people happy or sharing or for the kids for for everything And that's why the situation in Syria before the conflict and then and also in Syria Always we call Syria like a mosaic So it's full of many many religions many many ethnic people living in Syria for Hundred years together and you can see this is this image or photos coming from Alibaba where I have to work more than ten years You can see the omayyad mosque and one of church and you can see in one image the church and Mosque together, so we no problem no religion problem at all before in Syria no ethnic problem in Syria before So this is something completely new for the Syrian society. This is something coming During or through this conflict. We don't know it before Just an idea like Professor has shown us before Just to to give an impression to you how the situation in Syria, so it's a big mess fighting lines everywhere and You can you can see it very well For example, or maybe this one is better for example the red color is the regime areas and you can see the regime is here and there and here it's a Fire fighting lines in these areas and of course all the time the fighting lines is in a civil place Not in the desert Fighters fighting in desert. No all the time. There's fighting lines during the civil's houses This is what I this is why I want you to see this map because a lot of fighting lines everywhere so regime on the rebels and the Kurdish and Isis everywhere somewhere here somewhere here and everywhere and all of this Separated area between each groups is the fighting lines and the result you can see it here in this image So they destroyed everything They are not respect human being you can imagine how you would respect Culture heritage or the houses of the people of the brofite things no at all so Destroying and destruction For the houses for the civil normal people is everywhere Sorry This is I mean So you can see the most of the fighting lines is in a civil houses Everywhere in Syria so you can imagine how it's safety this This place for example most of them is coming from Everywhere I see actually but but this may be coming from Alibbo because I I was living there But in homes is the same in Darah is the same is the countryside of Damascus is the same as to a snort all Shooting and fighting everywhere And you can imagine how it's safety is areas. I said that because For example, this is just a story about safety my brother my my older brother He was a doctor in the faculty of agriculture in Alibbo University One armored group is coming to his house and talk him and we don't know anything about him for one month And then we pay a lot of money To to get him back after one month, of course, they stolen everything and it's happened Not for one group all they all they all did the same They arrested people for no reason and then they they asked for money or thought for one thing ever and for any kind of reason I Don't know why it's Anyway after all of this destruction for the houses It's normal for for a human for anyone. There's fighters and they're bombing everywhere It's normal that you take what you can take if you can I mean you can take whatever you can carry it and then you You flee you run away. You look you are going to looking for a safe place somewhere and That's what's happened for the most of the Syrians actually and you can imagine I Always said I would like to imagine how this old woman carried in this plastic small bags They left them houses destroying and They are lucky because they're still alive by the way because most of the families as losing member or someone Member member or arrested or dying Everywhere from all all colors in Syria not only from the opposite or the regime No, all the people is suffering and dying. I mean because it's it's a fighting. It's a war and You can you can see also in the photos. It's most of them are kids children women most of them just are looking for a Safe place and of course the first idea coming to them mind to going to an important country and That's what's happened actually There's a big fighting in south of Syria in Darah. They are fleeing to To Jordan and when it's happened for example in in homes areas Definitely, they are running away to Lebanon's and the others to Iraq or to Turkey sorry and of course You can imagine how how how the people is I mean coming to a country. It's not only 100 or 200 so they can Hiring a houses for them and put it somewhere and looking after them. No, it's a number. It's a big number. It's millions Now it's not millions or maybe 12 millions. I Mean a need need help in Syria But not most not all of them is outside Syria. There's a lot of camps inside Syria And you can see it here. This is just some camps It's inside Syria, but it's close to the border because they are feel that this area is a little bit safety for them more than them houses or them areas or whatever and And you can you can see how The life is going on I mean the daily life because my lecture is daily life So once I want because this is close to my area by the way Turkish border Once I want to one of these camps and I saw something you can't expect it everything in this Camps you have to stay in lines Even if you would like to go to that toilet you will stay in lines for one hour or I don't know So life is Syria. Actually I can I call it by myself. It's lines So you stay lines to get bread you get lines to take to get water if you get by the way This image actually from this year 2015 and You can I mean What I don't know what I have to say, but I mean the photos is paying about itself But it's really a very bad situation And I mean in in in other camps for it for example in outside Syria for in Jordan or in Lebanon or Others they get some support but inside they get support, but it's not enough Some some photos from the camps outside Syria Jordan as you see Millions of people living in tent in the desert and in live in Turkey and in Lebanon And really they are suffering from these camps because I mean they are They need everything and there's not many things it's getting I mean to them I'll come very quickly. You can imagine how it's them daily life. I mean How they are playing the kids for example or how they're cooking or are preparing bread And I would like to say something also. It's it's brofite things by the way in my house For example, I with my mother we prepare bread with this instrument, but we don't have this We have an old satellite. We clean it satellites for for the We clean it and we put it in fire and we prepare some bird and we are lucky because there are some male I mean corn we can we can prepare bread and And also we can see how they are cooking because they are not a lot of Cunging material or often or whatever as I said so Life in it's like that. So for example this line is waiting just to get some water and This kids is waiting just to to get some food or whatever or Or this sugar or spagetti or whatever because I mean they are sometimes they are offering for the people or bringing so the people some food material from spagetti or sugar or whatever from international organization by the way, so I will I will start with bread because I am If you are lucky, I mean after you waiting for a while You will get some some bread and you can see here how it Satisfies this man after he's waiting and getting some bread and For me sometimes I I would like to go to to this place to get some bread and I wake up very early five in the morning in my region not in an Alibo city in my region Because my region it's in the areas of the opposite and the museum is with the regime and I will tell you some stories about this later and I'm got early five in the morning and would like to be the first or the second or whatever So I saw in front of me more than 200 man And I stayed maybe the whole day for 10 hours then I get some some bread and Here in this photo is coming from my village in our own house in the village We have this we call Tanur and it's Known and as I said if you are lucky you will find Mail and you can prepare whatever you want Yeah, and this also And unfortunately in the cities for example in Alibo or in some areas I saw a lot of Movies or YouTube movies Sometimes there's a long line and then some water is coming from this side or this side or the plan is coming on shooting them So it's mixed blood with bread and you can see it here with this water is that is to getting a water. It's another story as the professor said sometimes there's the the place that Alibo have to drink water or or the Drinking water coming to Alibo is controlling by Isis. So it's in their minds. They cut it. Okay. There's no water at all in Alibo But there is some Underground water somewhere in Alibo So the men or friends of me they are spending I don't know two three hours that to getting a gallon or a Box of water and then they have to go for for first floor or second third for Five floor every time. I mean if you are lucky you get a water. So it's become more and more difficult Sometimes you go to The underground sibering somewhere in the village I mean and you can use water trunks to bring it to your home and you have a Kind of this trunk and you can put it for for you. You can use it for drinking or whatever And also of course kids always all the time being a part of this activities Once when I was working in in Alibo museum There's no water drinking water at all because in the museum we have underground water, but it's not Allowed to drink because it's not good. It's not drinking water. It's something wrong in it. I mean if I Good explanation in it. So the dirty water you can see like that So because there's no water for drinking We we just coming to our minds that we bullying this water and then we when it's getting cold We can drink it and I try it and then after two hours I have a stomach problem or whatever, but unfortunately after I don't know at that time maybe 20 days 22 days, there's no water in Alibo at all So the water is coming after and then For for mineral water or water you can buy it. No, there's of course if there is you can't buy it because if it was 50 serum bound it become for for 500 and I will tell you something about the salaries later Passage areas and other things it's really I mean the worst happened in the areas For the people for the human being is having is bad in passage areas Because all groups is using this way for controlling The rebels and the regime boss so the rebels as a shared village for example, they Controls the all sides no food nothing getting on and nothing going on and the regime did the same all they using this What they can do as it's very clear hunger Has no religion yellow cover their basic area. This young man is writing in his t-shirt This is actually a photos from a video It's coming from country Chantry side of Damascus called Al-Hajar Aswad and this is a basic area actually and This process is looking for a piece of bread and if you hear the conversation You can imagine how they are very angry because someone as Throwing this piece of bread in the ground They said why you do this and this one or some sometimes there's some kind of organization They can cooking for them, but it's not enough. It's it's a life. It's not only for one male or two males. It's no Sometimes it's some kind of grass. It's natural in the village in the field They they try just to eat it or whatever and of course the prices in message area for example It's 100 kilogram of sugar. It's was 100 Serium bound when it's up being twice or third time, but in this area it's become 2000 and Actually from where this people will they are no job for them. Nothing there is everything if you stay in this area I mean all the jobs before or most of them is belong to the regime And if you are against the gym, you lose you lose your job So no no salary for you from where they are organizing It's or they using by the way to getting For example sugar or tea or bread or something. They are using canal for two kilometers three kilometers or whatever Like what happened what happened was go in Gaza, maybe Just some details about how the electricity and of course, I mean because of the Shooting and the fighting and the war of course they will all the electricity sitting lines It's destroyed or completely destroyed or it's destroyed and then after one month two months. They are Rebear it or or whatever. So we people I mean return 50 years ago and using the Coruscine lamp and we use it in in my my home by the way, this course in we have one or candle if there is or this Fire Coruscine often or whatever you can call it and I have a silly story because My father was very angry because my mother is giving This an instrument or this often to someone or buying it for us antiques and tickets old old things And my father was very angry from from here because she did that because it's become this Sometimes it's become this very valuable and it's if you would like to get the new one from this It's three thousand or four thousand and nobody before caring about this at all or the man who is Preparing this he become rich man because a lot of people is bringing Something they are storage from 20 30 years to fix it again Something about cooking heating or in winter time of course because in in sometimes in winter They are freezing for one or two months in Syria So they using of course the wood for firing or for example fire bliss here And you can see all the families is is around and actually by this war When someone has a small house in the village and he was living in the city in the city So all the all the families coming to the small house. So you can see in one house, maybe three four families And of course they are using only one of course. Yeah, it's it's emergency situation. I mean and Sometimes we they are getting warm or cooking or whatever And also I have Because I'm I'm here I have good good chance to tell you this my brofite story once I invite my my mother to a chicken and I go to bring two kilograms and I would like to cook it, but if I would like to go to to use gas gas instrument it will take maybe two three hours and gas it's 6,000 Syrian bound only one One I don't know gallon or what yeah tank or whatever So I I spend maybe three four hours that to the brain, but I I do it actually School damage, it's it's another story because early in in this conflict most of the vitals is using schools as a Armid center and when you are you use something like this as a center So the other is coming on shooting you it's normal and that's what's happened in our school actually So most of the schools has been damaged or bombing or is a use it not for education and I would like to say I'll be honest that education in Syria is very very important for the Syrians Most of the families have high education most of them by the way my mother Count or did not read or writing at all my father also, but I am here and I get my master my older brothers is Doctor in the university. So education is very important for the Syrian family because most of them are normal People I mean not very rich very very high rich. I mean so education is very very important for them was So for that even in the camps even if the school is destroyed. They use it some rooms They use it some tents just to get Information just to get education just to get knowledge good knowledge. I mean And you can see just some Children tools during the world is another story because children our children is become They are not a good place because because of course because they are losing the school actually And this is the area in the opposite by the way Is the area of the regime it's still still a little bit It's better than the areas of the opposite because the areas of the opposite there are not not good organization at all They said there's a school with no teachers. No no books at all. So this is the difference There's some kind of difference between areas and areas where where's the Kurdish controlling? Maybe it's better. Where's the regime? Maybe it's better. The opposite is worse or it's depend from areas to areas so you can you can see the the kids are playing for the rest of the war of the with car bombing or guns or whatever and You can imagine also in these photos and you can see the background of these photos. There's no village at all actually our our kids Become professional to knowing the the kind of the fighting guns When they heard the voice they said, ah, this is a crashing cove. Ah, this is NATO. This is Doshka Because of all the times they are herding this University life I was also sharing in One or two subject in University of Alibo as a lecture a teacher there so and During this conflict before I was maybe 150 student in the third years in archaeology in Alibo University, but for example in the last time it was only 40 2014. I was there and it's only 40 student so more than half of our student of my students they are just looking for I mean they lose them Study I mean because they are some they are with the opposite for example or they are afraid from military service or Or whatever for different reason you can imagine I mean it's it's a war and you can imagine whatever and sometimes there's some mortars or some Rockets it's coming around The area the university area or whatever you can see it in the image before and of course mean As the student I divided one with the opposite on The other with the regime so it's happened everywhere Actually, it's happened in the in the same family this divided for example, I have good for example, I have good By the way, I have a good sample. It's happened in my village Friends to me. He has four boys four was in the military regime Two of them. They don't want to continue and they are become with the free Syrian army or with the opposite and They they fighting each other's the two brothers I mean and it's like like that in Syria. So in the family you can see some people with the regime one with The opposite one with a Nostra and the worst if there's someone with the ISIS Who will kill the all if he is someone from with the ISIS by the way Yeah hospital damage also it's Same like what's happened in the schools The for example, this is a kind of hospital. It's belong to the University of Alibo. It's very famous all all What can I say it or specialization was in this In this hospital, but they took it as a army center. So the other is coming and shooting them and you can see the result For this and it's not only for the the cost structure. I mean even if there's for example in in This just ensembles for in every and it's Controlling by Kurdish. It's a little bit safe area, but there is hospital Maybe more than three four, but there's no doctors. So what we can do Children the vaccine. It's it's another story Because I'm really suffering me by myself who is this children vaccines I'm once I would like to to go to a normal injection for my little daughter because you know, it's Every two months or three months. It's event and there's no at all in our region So I am starting looking for another village another town. No, it's only in Alibo. So I Have to go to Alibo in not in normal way. I mean, it's danger. You can always that I'm Running away from the fighting lines to to get some injection for your kids Actually, there's a very very sad story happened in the opposite areas in Idlib region There's some victims was Out of the surface or out of the dead or a expert and they use it for the kids and from this actions, there's more than 50 kids had been died from this and Me by self when they are coming to my village. I always took my My daughter and running to them actually so you can imagine how is the feeling for the for the fathers or the families there so Coming back to the refugees because it's now on in all of newspapers and media talking about Syrians and the Syrian refugees And I would like to say that the refugees are the victims of terrorism Because if you are agree with any of these fighters, you will not leave the Syria you will stay with with what someone you agree with them and you fight with them It's like that if I agree with the regime I stay with the regime and fighting Most of these people are not agree to what's going on in Syria But what we can do most of them are you can see all people children women and they are just running away from the fighters and it's I mean the this immigration or this Bandit the areas It was before in in the as I said in the borders and then in the neighboring countries and then to Europe and They start using the Mediterranean long time ago two years. It's become long time They use Mediterranean They are going to Egypt and then by Mediterranean to Italy or Greek or to Libya How dangerous Libya they are going there and some people as some stories I heard it from friends arrested in Libya for that more than eight months and Then they can have a way to come to to Europe and most of them Died in Mediterranean and then they found this another way. I mean And they use the blam from you know, maybe all the stories so I don't go in the details. I mean and they are Coming to Europe Just something about me As I said, I'm coming my roots is coming from the area's it's West of Alibom about 40 50 kilometers so it's take from me Every day to going to the museum for 50 minutes one hour and In the in the last time it's become more and more difficult You can't go in the normal way. You have to go to as to another way because there's a lot of fighting areas Interrupt you somewhere. So you have to go to another way and In 2012 Alibor was divided North Alibor and South Alibor with the one with the opposite and one with the regime and then only to get Regime area where's most of the omblies of Syria is going through This passing because they are no another road. So most of the people who are working in the regime area and it's a lot They are they should come from this way and I am because I working in the regime area in the museum So I have to come from this way and and in in this way, it's it's a long way more than six 700 meters you have to walk Not only you maybe half million is going and getting Through this passing and sometimes they are shooting each other's And I mean for me, maybe it's no problem. So I can run away or Find some walls trees, but for the woman for the old woman for the something with problem in health problem or whatever What what they can do and you can see some image from this passing? Now this passing it's only for humanity situation Because they are using another road. They call it is a military road, but they use it for For the civilian for the for the people for traveling to getting to Alibo or getting from Alibo And so this is Alibo and this is Yeah, here is my village in this area. So it was only 40 kilometers. I go every day I don't have a house in Alibo. I live in the village and every day I go and back to my to my work But last time in last year, I mean in 2014 You can't go this way because it's closing and the passing this passing is closed between the both So you have to come this way Like that so you go to to a middle of Syria to Hama here and then to Salamiya and then to al-badia And then you have to go and this is a military military way so it's mean in any minutes they will the others or the Isis or the opposite will shooting each other's I mean so you have to across some fighting lines around and Before I was with mini boss by the way, it's not big boss mini boss for 10 hours took 10 hours 12 before and sometimes 10 hours and last time maybe eight hours because they are founding some ways here in the Albadia, so it's become more shorter, but before I was buying for example 30 Syrian bound and In this case, I have to pay 2,500 and this is I have to say something about the salaries for example for me and my last salaries I get it from the museum. It's was 30 to 23,000 Syrian bound and if you convert by euro, it's become 80 euro And I have to pay more than half of this salary for the road because one in and through so and for that it's and of course For for eating for myself and the half is going to my small family in in the village Of course during this during this long lines. You can imagine thousands of check points every two three kilometers every two three kilometers there's Checkpoints and they they asked you from all colors by the way from Isis from a Nusra from the opposite troubles free sir army Regime all and they ask you what you are doing? What your position? With who you are so if you go to the regime area You are you call you it's Arab court Shabbi and that means you are fighting with the regime And if you come back to your village and it's with the opposite the other the regime and the other is said Ah, you are tourism because you are you are working with leaving there So what you can do with yourself? Of course, you are not agree with this with this So I have to go to my work and my work is in Alibaba museum I don't want to be with you or sometimes I'm if they ask me I said I am a teacher or I am a worker somewhere I never said that I'm working in the museum or whatever And of course if he if anyone I'm not talking about the regime of not talking about the opposite If anyone from this don't like you your face maybe he will arrest you for no reason or There's something in Syria. It's very similar that the names in Syria. It's similar So for example me Muhammad Fakhrou, maybe there's 10 Muhammad Fakhrou Maybe there's five Muhammad Mustafa Fakhrou the name of the father. I mean the same name And if there's someone is I mean wanted to the regime for example and I'm by bus to this and they say Ah, you are Muhammad Fakhrou come to me and then you go to a festivation Or maybe you are arrested for one month or 10 days. I don't know if you are if you are lucky 10 days by the way There's one story happened with my friend He's what he was the director of the prehistory section in the museum and he would like to go to to get a passport And then they look to to his name and he's he's coming from their door areas from Alishara and this is contrainted by ISIS and Isis stolen all the identity card from that region and doing something wrong. So he They arrested him for more than 12 days Tells they are clear that this is not the right man. We wanted and Now I'm happy that he's now in in Leon in France Coming with this all in majoration So all of this I take all of this road just to get my job in Aleppo and this is just some image in about This is just an idea about the old city of Aleppo because I feel I'm belonging to this area because I Spend most of my time in the museum in the old city in the Citadel in the last 10 years And this is in you can see it here's the location of the museum and here is the Citadel Yeah, Mirko told you about it and the way at Mosque and of course our city of Aleppo is very famous in world because The biggest covered markets. It's in Aleppo more than 300 kilometers of lines between houses 12,500 traditional house in Aleppo and you can imagine how How is that the situation of in the ancient city of Aleppo because it's become half with this part and this half with this part and they're fighting each others and You can see in this photos. What is the result of these fighting? So it's really was a market full of life I mean from everywhere all over the world They are coming to Aleppo and they are coming to the old city of Aleppo old souk and Medina They called and then they fighting each other in the in the aid and then they Destroying everything by Berlin's bombs from the plan of the regime and from the opposite using the water canal system And the bombing the whole building from under the ground so and all last time I We spent just more than three years just our effort is going for protection effort for the museum and we Because we are not so far from fighting lines So some mortars or if there is born in palms somewhere in the ancient city So we have an earthquake in the museum all the time and it's happened twice third a day It's normal. I mean shootings you hear shooting in the morning You are going in the inner curtain and you see a lot of shells we calculate it like that Yeah, some mortars is going on in the inner in the inner in the outside curtain of the museum But and we are lucky. It's not bombing or explosions once there's Bombing for buildings and then the stones is coming to the museum and by the way all the stuff was there not only me Most of the stuff was there and once there's one mortars is going to close to the museum and you can see the result of this was my office in the museum and it's Completely there's no class for the windows at all anymore And I would like to say in the last time I can't go every day I mean I spent one day to get my job So I stay in the museum for three weeks and when we I go back to my to my family not only me there's four or five from my friends Each one is responsible about one section in the museum for example Classic Museum Islamic Museum Syrian Antiquities Museum or or Brie history Museum We all living in the museum and spent most of the time in the museum Yeah, most of our effort is going for protection So you use you use the sandbags and you can imagine how is the situation or how is the museum is look like now in this? All the small Just an idea what I'm what I was doing all the small object. We we transfer it to a safe place outside the museum What we can and movement Statue or Sculptor's we can't move it so we try to Put or to make a sign a kind of protection in situ like what we did in Ishtab Ilham statutes from Mari Kingdom from the second third millennium BC. We just make it Cement wall around just for protection if there's any bombs or mortars or fragments or whatever Sandbags it was not was a good solution. So because it's damaged. So we are looking for another solution So we we make a wooden box for each pieces and fully to his sand. Just as this is kind of protection So I'm coming I'm going I'm coming close to end my Presentation I would like to say that we don't want our generation to have a knowledge or ISIS knowledge Because now ISIS is booting in in in the mind of kids because they are controlling the areas and they are really strong Controlling so they are doing with the kids. What they are whatever they want. So even if this conflict with Stay for a long time. So we will lose our generation. I mean and you can see that the reaction in the faces of these kids Of course, they don't want this at all and this is just some thing that I would like to share you that even Even with With with there's a message area or there's the people who is in the opposite or in the regime They are in situation is better than the kids in the ISIS areas here they are They are fighting to become alive to make them Games tools or whatever to to be happy for in in fast of Ramadan or in another kind of fasting during during this conflict because I mean there's No way to for them to live in normal life. This is for the people who is still in inside Syria And I would like to to say that we are looking or hoping that everything will be Better we hope it's just a hope because if we lose the hope that we will lose everything. So we just Waiting for example, this lady's is written in her hand. I want my life to come back and I Agree with here that everyone in Syria would like his normal life to come back Safety life. I mean with with schools with With everything I mean like before we don't want any more freedom or democracies This is just an image that we are looking also for hope they are just Growing up some flowers in racket and most of this image is coming from homes and homes in Syria It's very famous like a joke people. They always made things made joke things or happy things even during this conflict so and So in we all hope that they will the smile will come back again for the Syrian people and they will have a normal life normal school and good education and most of them become doctors or Or Architect or whatever and that's washing hobbing waiting for and a solution. I mean It's very difficult, but I mean we are full of hope that it's this war will end not so far in future and My final Statements Syrian people are human beings nine million Syrian refugees all over the world where forest to leave their homes Not only their homes, but also their mosque church as well as All of their belonging have been destroyed by the war. They are fact in of tourism and word Politics we should not forget that most of them are good hearted people many of them women and children who only Desire to live in peace and to have a future and Thank you very much for your attention