Let there be light

For decades Syrian art was underrepresented internationally in fairs and exhibitions, with few books or specialist curators and no collector base to match that of the Turkish or Iranian market. Now, the horrific tragedy of the Syrian civil war has seen a mass exodus of the countrys younger artists, and one sad result is that treasured works by Modernist masters like Louay Kayyali and Fateh Moudarres are being sold by families desperate for money, according to the London-based curator Nour