OPINION

This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 9 June 2024. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon As Lebanese society has grown indifferent to accusations of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy,” Hezbollah has shifted its focus…

This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 11 November 2023. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon Language plays a pivotal role in shaping social paradigms as it determines both individual and collective cognition. Replacing the language of…

This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 3 December 2023. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon Much has been written about Lebanon, often viewed as a crossroads between the East and the West. Hundreds of books have…

This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 31 December 2023. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon If ISIS tried to carry out ethnic cleansing based on takfirism, Hezbollah has devised the notion of “takhuinism” (accusation of treason)…

The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SyriacPress. By Kevin T. Mason, Independent Researcher and Writer In a series of devastating attacks, Turkey’s intensified airstrike campaign targeting vital civilian infrastructure in North and East Syria has compounded existing water,…

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SyriacPress. By Hadeel Oueis Senior Research Fellow, Philos Project Eleven years ago, I had to leave Hasaka, my hometown and the city where I grew up. I came from a large…

By Fr Jean Maroun Helou co-founder of the Syriac Maronite Union-Tur Levnon Sociologists and scientists address the pros and cons of immigration, but I don’t want to discuss them in this article. My goal is to describe some of its effects on the Syriac Maronite Church. During the Maronite synod held…

This article was originally published in Turkish by Gazete Sabro. The original can be found here. All humans, societies and peoples are known through their particular identity. The defining characteristic of this identity is the mother tongue. The mother tongue plays a decisive role in the spiritual formation of humans,…

This article was originally published by The American Conservative on February 2, 2023. The original can be found here. By Charles Carman There is a movement to make Syriac an official language in the government school curriculum in northeast Syria. At present, Arabic is the language of the classroom. If…

By Maryam Younnes This January, I received the news about the vandalism of the Lebanese Maronite church in my community in Ma’alot located in northern Israel. A week before this vandalism took place, a Protestant cemetery was desecrated and vandalized by two Jewish youths wearing kippah and only last Thursday,…