ASSAD THE CITIZEN PS

"You may expect to see him every where whether in the work place or on the streets or in your picnics in order to learn from you and sharpen his determination by his contact with you and shall work for you as he has always done. The man who has become a president is the same man who was a doctor and an officer and first and foremost is the citizen."

President Bashar Al_Assad takes part in vaccination campaign.

H. E. President Bashar Al-Assad is carrying out a surgical intervention. Profile Syria Allah Hamiha Picture.

President Bashar Al_Assad takes part in vaccination campaign.

H.E. President Bashar Al-Assad with his son Hafez.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad surrounded by thousands of Syrian Citizens, Damascus, February 15, 2011.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad and H.E. Mrs. Asma Al-Assad, Syria's First Lady visiting the training camp for the Syrian Special Olympics teams participating in the 7th Special Olympics Middle East/North Africa Regional Games , September 5, 2010.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad taking part in afforestation Campaign in Qatana, near Damascus, December 30, 2010.

His Excellency President Al-Assad pointed out that cleanliness is a criterion for nations' civilization and development, asserting that the cleanliness is the responsibility of every body, and that the culture of the cleanliness should spread more in the society; so that every body is to contribute to the preservation of Syria's glittering image.

His Excellency President Al-Assad highly appreciated the role played the hard working dust-sweepers, who excel in their work, lauding highly the basic role played by them in the society, as to preserve the Homeland civilized feature, working around the clock to keep it clean.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad giving a Ramadan-Fast-Breaking Dinner in honour of some hard working dust-sweepers, August 26, 2009.

The Syrians have become accustomed to see their beloved Presidential Couple taking a stroll in the streets of their villages, attending theatres shows, planting saplings and the like.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad and Her Excellency the First Lady Mrs. Asma Al-Assad paid a surprise field visit to the Syrian University Students Volunteering Camp in Maa'loula, August 23, 2009.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad, in celebration of the Syrian Martyrs Day, visiting the Martyrs’ Sons School, Damascus, May 6, 2009.

“Our gathering on the occasion of the blessed Christmas is not as to address messages that we in Syria live in fraternity, tolerance and coexistence; because Syria for long did overcome such terms,” said H. E. President Al-Assad in his Christmas Address, December 25, 2008.

“We are here together as part of our Syrian Social Texture, our civilization and of our history. We, as Syrians, have to transfer what we have to the entire world,” said H. E. President Al-Assad in his Christmas Address, December 25, 2008.

His Excellency President Bashar Al-Assad and H. E. Mrs. Asma Al-Assad accompanied by their children celebrated Easter inside St. Mar Taqla Convent, April 27th 2008.

President Assad planting a sapling

His Excellency President Bashar Al Assad visiting the Turkish Fenerbahce Istanbul Football Club. President Assad paid a field visit to the Club, October 19, 2007. His Excellency, a former football player, tuored the Club and its large Stadium practicing some sort football playing recording his past hobby, before H. E. decided to stop playing football due to a football-caused knee-problem

President Assad planting a sapling

President Assad Receiving Pope John Paul the Second, Damascus 2001

President Hafez Assad Great Family, Standing from Left Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majid, Boushra. Sitting beside the President Mrs. Anisa Makhlouf Al assad, the caring mother for the majority of the Syrians.