Peace takes 'flight' in ceramic doves art installation in Syria

An art installation using ceramic birds is pictured in an alley in old Damascus. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of ceramic doves are suspended over the streets of the Old City of Damascus, part of an art installation that had been set to debut before the start of Syria's war.

The lifelike figurines crafted by Buthaina al-Ali, a professor at Damascus University's faculty of arts, had been gathering dust in a basement since the outbreak of Syria's conflict in 2011.