Olives rising in Homs, Syria : NPR

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We would gone to this Christian village in northern Syria with a former trainer named Abdallah Ibrahim. A lot of the village was in ruins — and he informed me and my colleague Jawad Rizkallah he feared the sectarian violence that has continued to plague Syria even after the tip of the civil battle would quickly hit his Christian neighborhood, once more, as nicely.

However he put aside these fears for just a few hours that afternoon final October, harvesting his household’s olive timber for the primary time for the reason that civil battle started. Ibrahim stated he had planted many of those timber himself, as a teen, a long time in the past.

There may be nonetheless a lot rebuilding to be executed and so many previous hurts to heal. Some tiny little bit of that therapeutic started, I feel, in these moments with the nice and cozy solar on us, gathering handfuls of onerous olives that may grace his household’s desk sooner or later: a style of the house they’d been lacking for almost 14 years.

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