Two Mosaic Conservation Course alumni from Syria have recently been involved in a restoration project aiming to preserve one of the country’s most important sites, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which had been damaged by a mortar shell.
Read more about their work on the Mosque’s wall mosaics.
Burhan al-Zaraa, from Damascus, is a permanent employee of the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) since 1998. He attended two Mosaic Conservation Course (MCC) modules run by CCA in Fall 2011 and Summer 2012. He now works as a mosaics conservator in the restoration laboratory of the Damascus Citadel.
Muhammad al-Kayed, from Damascus, is a permanent employee of the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) since 2007. He grew up in the marble factory of his family where he learnt to make modern mosaics and marble Comatesque. Like Burhan, he attended two Mosaic Conservation Course (MCC) modules in Fall 2011 and Summer 2012. He now works as a mosaics conservator in the restoration laboratory of the Damascus Citadel.