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 ...

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 ...