Sweet mulberries and the bitter uprooting of Syria’s Druze
AS a filmmaker, I see the world through the details that come into focus – or that become blurry – in my camera’s viewfinder. So when violence broke out a month ago in my home of Sweida, a province in southern Syria, I couldn’t help but see it all unfold through that same lens. I was in Sweida’s main city when clashes between Bedouin and Druze forces broke out in mid-July, so I was spared the worst of the violence that took over the countryside and turned sectarian, claiming the lives of hundreds of people – possibly more than 1,000…
