The ancient wheat fields of southern Syria transform into a rugged basalt rock landscape on the approach to Suweida, home to many of the country’s Druze minority. The harsh landscape is a good ...

Against the backdrop of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime, and the tragic death of 12 Druze children in Majdal Shams in a Hezbollah rocket attack, the number of Druze ...

https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.40.3.0233 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.40.3.0233 There is an established literature which argues that ...

Two rebel groups from Syria's Druze minority said on Monday they were ready to join a national army after Islamist-led opposition fighters toppled president Bashar Al Assad last month. The new ...

The Druze consider Jesus and Mohammed to be prophets. “If we have to choose, we will choose the lesser evil,” the speaker said, according to the Times of Israel .

The Druze-majority province of Swaida in southern Syria has been one of the calmest regions in the country during nearly two years of popular insurrection, but the last month has seen an upswing ...

But the real impact wasn’t just physical, it was psychological. The Druze of the Golan Heights, once unwavering in their loyalty to Syria, found themselves asking a different question ...

Afef Abed, a member of Israel’s Druze minority, took Gallant’s seat in the Knesset on behalf of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party following Gallant’s departure ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A delegation from the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) on Tuesday visited Syria’s southern Druze-majority Suwayda province and met with Sheikh Hikmat Salman al-Hijri ...

Maj. Gen. Alian, who is Israeli-Druze, heads the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF unit responsible for overseeing civilian policy in the West Bank.