From Syria to short back and sides: the story behind city's newest barbershop

All in the family: Darwich Sido, seated, with sons Mohamad and Khalil, at their Newcastle West barber. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

TWO years after he started his first business in Newcastle, Syrian immigrant Darwich Sido has launched a barber shop with his sons at Marketown.

Mr Sido, who fled the war in his homeland before resettling in Australia, opened Sido Tailors at Jesmond Central, utilising the skills he learnt from the age of 12 when he trained as a tailor in his father's large tailoring business in Aleppo.