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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’d gone to this Christian village in northern Syria with a former teacher named Abdallah Ibrahim. Much of the village was in ruins \u2014 and he told me and my colleague Jawad Rizkallah he feared the sectarian violence that has continued to plague Syria even after the end of the civil war would soon hit his Christian community, again, as well. <\/p>\n

But he set aside those fears for a few hours that afternoon last October, harvesting his family’s olive trees for the first time since the civil war began. Ibrahim said he had planted many of these trees himself, as a teenager, decades ago.<\/p>\n