One of my favorite things about working on this project is all the wonderful people that I get to meet. Before coming to Lebanon I was lucky enough to get to fly around the U.S., meeting various Lebanese and Maronite people of interest. Especially fruitful was my trip to New York City where Mike Naber, the executive director of the National Apostolate of Maronites took me around and introduced me to interesting people. One of the trips involved going to Scranton, PA (fans of the television show “the Office” will immediately ask me if I ran into Michael Scott) where I met Judy Soma, a delightful iconographer. Her icons are done in a unique fashion and don’t skimp on vibrancy and color. She has done several icons of the three Massabki brothers, the subjects of “Fire in Damascus” so of course, I was thrilled to meet her. While there she was nice enough to let me film her at work, and below is what came of it. Special thanks to Juliana Hinojosa for her fantastic editing: