OPINION

By Hicham Bou Nassif | Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College-California Michel Aoun’s policy of allying with Hezbollah as a coalition of minorities against the Sunni majority never convinced me. But the approach of Aoun’s Christian rivals to the…

By Hicham Bou Nassif | Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College-California Every civil war is a tragedy — nothing noble can be said about sending people to an early death. Yet there are moments when facing such a tragedy…

By Bassam Ishak | President of Syriac National Council of Syria (SSNC) and member of the Presidential Council of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Mission in Washington, D.C. The “Unity of Ranks” conference held yesterday in al-Hasakah sparked a storm of fierce criticism from the Damascus authorities and their supporters. The question that…

By Denho Bar Mourad–Özmen | Former Special Educator and Advisor at Sweden’s National Agency for Special Education Introduction The Syriac/Assyrian diaspora in Europe currently finds itself in a period of identity negotiation and institutional reconsideration. The initial wave of migrants who arrived in the 1960s and 1970s established the foundations of religious, cultural, and…

By Maryam Younnes | A Christian Lebanese-Israeli activist, advocating for Christians in the Middle East  As a Christian living in the Holy Land, I’ve watched with growing concern as the focus of Christian pilgrimage has increasingly shifted away from Jerusalem and towards the Vatican and the Pope. This trend, while…

By Joseph Yacoub | Honorary Professor of Political Science, Catholic University of Lyon It is sad to have to conclude that the tragedy of Eastern Christians has a long history. The tragedy of the Assyrians-Chaldeans did not start today. They suffered the Genocide of 1915–1918 under Ottoman rule. And then…

By Bassam Ishak | President of Syriac National Council of Syria (SSNC) and member of the Presidential Council of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Mission in Washington, D.C. Washington’s growing support for Syria’s transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, may buy short-term stability but risks entrenching the same authoritarian instincts that doomed the old…

By Fr Andrew Younan | abuna Andrew Younan is an Assyro-Chaldean priest, writer, and professor of philosophy and biblical languages at John Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California The contentious issue of the ethnic identity of the indigenous, Aramaic-speaking people of Mesopotamia can lead not only to debate but community division…

By Hisham Bou Nassif | Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College-California The cry of “Allahu Akbar” rang out intensely in the videos of the Druze civilians being killed—videos that circulated widely on social media following the events in…

By Yousif Kalian  In a landmark address delivered during the Jubilee of Hope in 2025, Pope Leo XIV turned the world’s attention to the Eastern Churches—not only to honor their sacred past but to demand a reckoning with their precarious future. Among his most urgent appeals was a renewed call…