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How a family, and a people, find hope in Syria
Clayton Collins
If life afforded you an open weekend, here鈥檚 hoping that it was restorative.聽You can catch up with recent days鈥� news 鈥� including a look at gyrations of the bond market and investor confidence in the United States, and at the legal fight over Mahmoud Khalil鈥檚 deportation 鈥� at CSMonitor.com. Missiles again fell on Ukraine and Gaza.聽
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Dominique Soguel writes today about a people鈥檚 will to rise up in the aftermath of Syria鈥檚 devastating 14-year civil war, and about hopes for rebuilding an economy. She frames that larger story partly through one family鈥檚 act of optimism. 鈥淭he choice to repair a broken bicycle may seem small,鈥� Dominique writes, 鈥渂ut for families like the Saads, such decisions reflect a fragile but growing faith in a life beyond conflict.鈥�
