2025 The huge toppled statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the Damascus countryside town of Deir Atiyam in Qalamoun remains a symbol of the overthrow of his son Bashar al-Assad's ...
adding that his violin was a "symbol of life, safety and security for his present and his future". He fled Syria in 2010 for the United Arab Emirates, where he settled and worked as a violinist.