• Abdul-Rahman Al Zin, 53, holds a bottle of medicinal oil at his workshop in Bab Sharqi, a district in the old city of Damascus, Syria. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin, 53, holds a bottle of medicinal oil at his workshop in Bab Sharqi, a district in the old city of Damascus, Syria. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
  • Bottles of medicinal oils inside the workshop. EPA
    Bottles of medicinal oils inside the workshop. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin inherited his profession of 25 years from his ancestors. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin inherited his profession of 25 years from his ancestors. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds to offer them as an alternative treatment to synthetic drugs. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds to offer them as an alternative treatment to synthetic drugs. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
  • Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA
    Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts medicinal oils from plants, flowers and seeds for alternative health treatments. EPA

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Inside a workshop making medicinal oils in Syria - in pictures

Abdul-Rahman Al Zin extracts oils from plants, flowers and seeds at his business in Bab Sharqi, in the old city of Damascus

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April 01, 2021

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The biog

Siblings: five brothers and one sister

Education: Bachelors in Political Science at the University of Minnesota

Interests: Swimming, tennis and the gym

Favourite place: UAE

Favourite packet food on the trip: pasta primavera

What he did to pass the time during the trip: listen to audio books

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THE BIO

Occupation: Specialised chief medical laboratory technologist

Age: 78

Favourite destination: Always Al Ain “Dar Al Zain”

Hobbies: his work  - “ the thing which I am most passionate for and which occupied all my time in the morning and evening from 1963 to 2019”

Other hobbies: football

Favorite football club: Al Ain Sports Club

 

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