In the Eye of the Storm

Middle Eastern Christians in the Twenty-First Century

Mitri Raheb

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781666748932, 9781666748949
• eBook ISBN: 9781666748956
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

The situation of Christians in the Middle East has become an important topic of international discussion as well as an important theme covered in the media, as several CBS Sixty Minutes programs have highlighted the plight of Christians in Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. In the Eye of the Storm tells the story of the plight of twenty-first-century Middle Eastern Christians in five countries (Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt) in the context of the so-called Arab Spring and within a destabilized region that is a geopolitical triangle shaped by Israeli hegemony and Arab-Iranian tensions. The book places the situation of the Christians within the wider sociopolitical context of the Middle East in the twenty-first century. A unique feature of this book is that it is written mainly by native Christians who have spent their entire lives in the region and continue to live there. In the Eye of the Storm, therefore, provides an insider perspective rather than a hegemonic and colonial outsider perspective. This book hopes to offer a sociopolitical framework for the Christians of the Middle East, thus allowing them to tell their own story as they see it and not one that has been projected onto them by outside forces.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Christians in Egypt
• Palestinian Christians under Israeli Rule and the Struggle to Remain
• Christians in Jordan
• Christians in Lebanon
• Christians in Palestine
• Epilogue
• Appendices