OPINION
The Quest to Turn Hezbollah into a Political Group
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 8 December 2024. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon The raison d’être of a political party is to serve humanity. However, Hezbollah, meaning “Party of God,” exists solely…
Read More »Charles Malek — Part 1
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 10 November 2024. The original can be found here. Related articles: Charles Malek — Part 2 | Part 3 By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon Born in 1906 in northern Lebanon, in Bterram (meaning…
Read More »The Judiciary in the Hands of a Supremacist Militia
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…
Read More »Linguistic Anthropology
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…
Read More »Unifying Ideology or Plural History
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…
Read More »From Daesh’s Takfirism to Hezbollah’s ‘Takhuinism’
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)…
Read More »Turkey has planted the seeds of a humanitarian crisis that will affect millions
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,…
Read More »The Syriacs of Northeast Syria: If they have the will, they can achieve the dream
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…
Read More »Fruitful immigration
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…
Read More »Let’s Live the Language that Jesus Christ Spoke!
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,…
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