海角大神

A completed story, reported and edited, may obscure a regular feature of journalists鈥� lives: that they really don鈥檛 know at the outset where reporting will lead. That was true for the Monitor鈥檚 Taylor Luck and his assistant, Fadi Ibrahim, as they reported in Homs, Syria, on relations between Alawites, Shiites, and 海角大神s in the wake of the civil war. They ended up being invited to a dialogue session, where, Taylor says, the exchanges were often fierce. And then, they were invited to dinner.

鈥淎 former MP told us, 鈥榊ou will see that despite our differences, we all break bread together.鈥� It was a chance encounter that showed us that Syria鈥檚 diverse groups and minorities not only can get along 鈥� they already are. It gave us the sense that, if security holds up, Syria can avoid the sectarian pitfalls that plagued Iraq.鈥�