Since 1981 Rouaida and her husband lived in Jobar, an outlying suburb situated to the east of Damascus.

Ibrahim Alnaiemi and Hanadi

Ibrahim worked as a violinist in the suburb of Al Fardous in Aleppo with his wife Hanadi and their four children, two girls aged 17 and 12 and two boys 24 and 5. 

Mahmoud and his wife were living with their four sons in one of the old suburbs of Aleppo.

Ihab Azizi and his wife Rania Aswad have two children. One is two years old and the other is 20 days old, having just been born.

Zahida and her husband Faisal Alkhaled were living with their family in Suran in the Hama district.

Rose and her family were living near Homs in a village called Karm Cham Cham. She was married and had two children, one who was studying in Year Six and the other who was four years old and hadn’t yet started school.