Reincarnation\u2014 noun.\u00a0 The rebirth of a soul in a new body.<\/span><\/p>\n
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When Naim was two and a half, he started talking about people that the family did not know.\u00a0 A man named Aehan, who walked with a cane. And woman named Amir, who sang loudly in the kitchen while making <\/span>labaneh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n
As was the tradition, his parents started searching for who these people might be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Naim was six years old when he was brought to the home of Aehan and Amir, in their village of Majdal Shams. Naim had never been to this village.\u00a0 Never seen the small streets that wove up the side of the crooked hill. And yet he pulled at his mother\u2019s hand impatiently as they got nearer to the home with the cracked cement stairs and the blue painted door.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the house!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Since just after its founding in the 11th century, the Druze tradition has been officially closed off to outsiders and proselytism has been prohibited. Since that ban, the Druze population has continued to exist solely based on the continuation of its previous generations. (<\/span>pewresearch.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n