Arwad Abu Shaheen (centre), a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, is escorted by her father as she prepares to leave her family home on her wedding day and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.