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Iraq’s Christians: Those Who Remain
The US pulled its troops out of Iraq this weekend, ending the 9-year long Iraq war. The ultimate consequences of the war — for Iraq, the Middle East, and the United States itself — remain to be seen....
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Seeking Moral Guidance on the Iraq Withdrawal
On December 15, 2011, President Obama formally announced the end of the eight-and-a-half year Iraq war. American troop presence in Iraq has dwindled to a fraction of its former strength: In 2007,...
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Pride on Saving Christianity in Iraq
Jonathan Pride (Student, Harvard Law) has posted Saving an Ancient Community: Christianity in Iraq. The abstract follows. The Christian community in Iraq has survived conquests by Arabs, Huns, and...
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Hamoudi on Religious Minorities and Shari’a in Iraqi Courts
Haider Ala Hamoudi (University of Pittsburgh Law) has posted Religious Minorities and Shari’a in Iraqi Courts. The abstract follows. There is a rising interest in our academy in the study of...
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USCIRF Issues Annual Report
I posted earlier this week about the US Commission on International Religious Freedom’s special report on violations of religious liberty in Syria. Also this week, USCIRF issued its annual,...
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Hamoudi, “Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and...
Next month, University of Chicago Press will publish Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq by Haider Ala Hamoudi (University of Pittsburgh School...
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America’s Duty to Iraq’s Christians
At The Week, columnist Michael Brandon Dougherty has a hard-hitting piece on America’s responsibility to Iraq’s Christians. In light of the fact that America’s invasion, occupation, and withdrawal...
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Church of England: UK Ignores Iraq’s Christians
I don’t follow British ecclesiastical politics too closely, but the media in the UK is treating this like a big deal. Over the weekend, the Church of England issued a strongly worded condemnation of...
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US Rescues Turkmen in Iraq; Christians Still Waiting
Help for the Turkmen (LA Times) This past weekend, the United States intervened to rescue some 15,000 Shia Turkmen trapped in the northern Iraqi city of Amerli. ISIS, the Sunni Islamist group, had...
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The NYT on the End of Mideast Christianity
Photo from Christianity Today Eliza Griswold’s major piece on Mideast Christians in the New York Times Magazine this past weekend is getting lots of well-deserved attention. The Times, more than...
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Zaman, “Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria”
In November, Palgrave Macmillan will release “Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria” by Tahir Zaman (Center for Research on Migration, Refugees & Belonging (CMRB) at the...
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Pelham, “Holy Lands”
This month, Columbia Global Reports released “Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East,” by Nicholas Pelham. The publisher’s description follows: How did the world’s most tolerant region...
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Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web: The President of Turkey marked the one-year anniversary of a failed coup attempt by praising those who thwarted it and calling...
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