The most prominent figure among Syria’s 800,000 Druze is the slippery Hikmat al-Hijri. Nominally the hereditary spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze, the Venezuelan-born Hijri, Israel’s main interlocutor ...

On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, ...

It was exactly a week after the Assad regime fell in Syria last December, and Damascus was euphoric. My colleague and I came across a bar in the center of the city called Sugar Man.

I believe that in a post-Assad Syria defined by fractured governance and episodic retribution, the Alawites as well as Druze are likely to face deepening marginalization.