Across the Middle East, a focus on home, healing, and restored hope

Taylor Luck, the Monitor’s Arab world correspondent, has a broad assignment, covering his beat with a close eye on and attentive ear to the events, thoughts, and moods prevalent in the region. He has been an integral part of our coverage of the war in Gaza – which, as he notes, takes a toll on the journalists involved – and of the new Syria unfolding before his eyes. His wide travels in the region this year are convincing him that there is cause for hope this season, welcome news for sure.