THE FORGOTTEN JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB LANDS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TODAY. International attention regarding the post-Arab ...

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks As a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi ...

HITHERTO our knowledge of the Mandaeans— a small community of some 5,000 souls dispersed over a few places in Iraq and Iran—has been confined to the writings of Lidzbarski and Brandt, which rested on ...

The Chaldean Patriarchate of Iraq announced the cancellation of Easter festivities this year to draw attention to the dire condition of Christians in the country. In July, Iraqi President Abdul Latif ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Members of the Sabeans, also known as the Sabean-Mandaeans, submerged themselves in the ...

Jorunn J. Buckley had an unusual childhood, but one, she says, that prepared her perfectly for her later career as a religious studies scholar. Her father was the gardener at the grounds of a mental ...

Mandaean men await to be baptized on Kanshia uZahla, the Mandaean New Year. Courtesy of Neil Joseph Nakkash/MiC. In “Orientalism,” Said describes the West’s harmful tendency of generalizing the ...

WORCESTER — Behram Khaled used to live in a war zone where over a million civilians were killed. When the Iraq War started in 2003 with the invasion of the U.S.-led coalition to overthrow the then ...

(The Conversation) — Mandaeans are followers of ancient Gnostic religion, whose traditional homeland was the region of Iraq and Iran. Today, this small minority lives in many parts of the world, ...

A look at the best news photos from around the world. 1 A Hazara farmer ploughs a field with oxen near the ruins of the historic city of Shahr-e Zuhak or Zuhak City, on the outskirts of Bamiyan, ...