Abstract This paper examines several aspects of the attempt at rehabilitating Aleppo and data available about city prior to start Syrian conflict in 2011. It discusses documentation, rehabilitation conservation practices Aleppo, focusing on operations between 1994 2011 that were coordinated by institutions managed primarily Directorate Old City (DOCA) Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammen­arbeit...

The interactions between many species are structured in a geographic mosaic of populations among which selection is divergent. Here we tested the hypothesis that such a geographic selection mosaic arises for common crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) feeding on seeds in the cones of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) because of geographic variation in the occurrence of European red squirrels (Sciurus vu...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis has been endemic in Aleppo, Syria, for generations. Recently there has been a clear increase in the incidence of the disease, and more patients have shown a lack of response to antimonials. We report the results of a survey, undertaken over the period 2-17 January 1995, at a general hospital in Aleppo, of all patients presenting with cutaneous leishmaniasis. Patients wer...

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA 2Syrian Research Cancer Centre of the Syrian Society against Cancer, Aleppo, Syria 3McGill & Concordia Universities, Montreal, Canada 4Universite de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7213, Illkirch, France 5Kids Research Institute, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia 6Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Sydney,...

Post-fire reproductive niche of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) is deeply interlaced with fire products. Indeed, the high pH and low osmotic potentials of ash beds under burnt crowns constitute the main constraints to seed germination. In this study, we aim to investigate whether fire recurrence, through the physico-chemical constraints imposed by the ash beds, affects the reproduction ability o...

Kaur N, Street K , Mackay M , Yahiaoui N, Keller B 1 Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland, ICARDA, PO Box: 5466, Aleppo, Syria, 3 Australian Winter Cereals Collection, 4 Marsden Park Road, CALALA NSW 2340, Australia, UMR Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite CIRAD TA A-54/K Campus International de Baillarguet 34398, Mon...