One side features the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting water pouring out of a rock to quench the thirst of a sick girl beside her.
When students understand the negative impacts of mountain top mining or deep water oil exploration, examples chronicled in the book, they are able to make connections between environmental issues in the world and how they live collectively.
In Damascus, the traditions of Ramadan are as old as the Koran, Islam's holy book: a month of introspection and prayer, no food or water from sunup to sundown.