Eastern Christian Books

Questions of religious persecution, both historic and current, are often presented tendentiously as a part of current political jockeying. C...

Knowing almost nothing about the latest Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I will say nothing beyond noting, as I have in the past on here, that ...

For those who, as I noted on Monday, have begun their time in the Lenten desert, the themes of conflict, battle, and asceticism will be fore...

I have noted many books over the years about Ottoman history, especially the history of Muslim-Christian relations in the empire. I have als...

As I've argued here and elsewhere, many people still today greet the concept of Arab Christians with slack-jawed disbelief: aren't a...

Emerging scholarship is helping (if I may be forgiven for an infelicitous bit of academic jargon) to "problematize" popular narrat...

When the Arab-Islamic conquests of lands today known as Syria, Egypt, and Palestine began in the seventh century, the transformation from a ...

With regular recent reports of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shuttling around the Middle East in the hopes of some kind of "settle...