This darkly comic Israeli feature (2004) revolves around the Druze, a close-knit minority scattered throughout the Middle East; their political allegiances follow national borders, but their tradition ...

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution ...

Golan Heights is 500 square miles of fertile hillside land. It's home to tens of thousands of Druze, who are an Arab minority in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. The Golan Heights was suddenly in the news ...

"Unacceptable. It's simply unacceptable," Eran Riklis said, referring to the slightly blurry English subtitles running across the bottom of his film, "The Syrian Bride." Riklis, an internationally ...

Director Eran Riklis says his latest movie, "The Syrian Bride" (see review on Page 30), was inspired by a wedding he filmed while making his 1999 documentary "Borders." That wedding, between an ...

The story of an arranged marriage between an Israeli woman and a Syrian man. If the woman leaves Israel to get married, she will never be allowed to return home ...