https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/jeffrey-t-iverson/rss en Human Rights Religious & Ethnic Groups Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Jeffrey T. Iverson https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/07/10/father-paolo-dalloglio-and-syrias-disappearing-priests https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/07/10/father-paolo-dalloglio-and-syrias-disappearing-priests On June 23, Father Francois Murad, 49, “died when he was shot inside his church” in the Christian village of al-Ghassanieh, near Jebel Akrad in Latakia province. Arts & Culture Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Jeffrey T. Iverson https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/05/16/arts-culture-war-in-syrias-wine-country https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/05/16/arts-culture-war-in-syrias-wine-country Another winter has passed at Domaine de Bargylus, and once-twisted, gray-barked vines are today burgeoning with green buds. Spring is a precarious season, when a late frost can decimate a vineyard’s chances of ever yielding a harvest. Like the majority of their countrymen, the owners of this young estate, Syrian brothers Karim and Sandro Saadé, weren’t born into wine. But if the mark of a good winegrower is the ability to adapt and take in stride the vicissitudes of life and nature, then the Saadés have already proven themselves beyond a doubt to be a pair of natural vignerons.