Travel Group | April 18

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Our extensive travel around Syria on the eve of the civil war.
with Joel Oger et Marie Louise Miginiac-Oger

In late June 2010, the “Société Française de Neurologie” organized a joint meeting with its Syrian equivalent. As I was an invited speaker, we took this meeting in Damascus as a springboard to embark on a 2 weeks extensive bus travel around the country. We did not realize that this was the last opportunity to see glorious ruins such as the city of Bosra, the city of Palmyra and the temple of Baâl before their near destruction. We finished our tour at the Kraâk des Chevaliers which was soon to become a military warehouse for the “rebels” with the expected results …. We have been told that the Christian villages (same language as Jesus Christ: Aramaic) where we ended our trip have been totally spared even though orthodox priests and nuns were displaced. This would not be the first time and up to now has always been temporary…hopefully it will be the same, this time around.

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