In May 2025, Nanna Heitmann traveled with New York Times reporters to document the reaction of Syrians to the increase in sectarian tensions and violence in their country. Since the fall of Assad's dictatorship, violence against religious minorities is rising, coinciding with the country's reform process under a Sunni Muslim majority government. Starting with the massacre of Alawites — a religious minority to which Bashar al-Assad belonged — in March of this year, attacks on the Druze community followed.

A religious minority belonging to a branch of Shi'ite Islam, the Druze primarily reside in...