On October 12 in Washington D.C., I chaired a roundtable panel discussion at the fifth annual conference of ASMEA (Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa), titled “Persecution, Resistance and Flight: Christian Communities in the Modern Middle East.” To view my 10-minute introduction and summary of the situation on YouTube, click here.
To view the entire panel directly on the ASMEA website, including remarks by Dr. Dwight Bashir, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Dr. Amal Marogy, Cambridge University; Prof. Franck Salameh, Boston College; and Ms. Juliana Taimoorazy, Iraqi Christian Relief Council, click here to ASMEA’s site.
RAYMOND IBRAHIM, a Middle East and Islam specialist, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. A widely published author, best known for The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007), he guest lectures at universities, including the National Defense Intelligence College, briefs governmental agencies, such as U.S. Strategic Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency, provides expert testimony for Islam-related lawsuits, and has testified before Congress regarding the conceptual failures that dominate American discourse concerning Islam and the worsening plight of Egypt's Christian Copts. Among other media, he has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, PBS, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, CBN, and NPR.