Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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Poster for the play, “N.” (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Iraqi play voices solidarity with displaced minorities

by Afrah Shawqi | Aug 15, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi actors are expressing their solidarity with the country’s persecuted minority groups in a new play, titled N—or “Nun,” the initial letter of the Arabic word for Christians, Nasara, which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) painted...

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Iraqi Christians attend Sunday mass at the Virgin Mary Chaldean church (Church of Our Lady of Sacred Heart) in the Karrada neighborhood of the capital Baghdad on July 20, 2014. (AFP/Sabah Arar)

Mosul’s Christian refugees pledge never to return

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Following reports that no Christians remain in Iraq’s second city after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) gave Mosul’s Christian community a deadline to either leave or face execution, Iraqi Christian refugees have said they were...

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HRH Prince of Wales

Opinion: The plight of Christians in the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity

by HRH the Prince of Wales | May 26, 2014 | Opinion

For more than 20 years, I have tried to build bridges between Islam and Christianity and to dispel ignorance and misunderstanding between them. Islam is the second-largest faith community in the world and the second-largest in Britain, and so bridges between Islam and...