Sudan - Civil War and Genocide - Middle East Forum
Religion defines identity in both the Sudan’s North and the South. The southern backlash to Islamization and Arabization boosted its Christian identity. Southerners now combine indigenous culture, Christianity, and general elements of Western culture to combat Islam and the associated imposition of Arab identity.
Teddy Bears, Parked Cars and Moral Equivalence [on Georgetown …
2007年12月2日 · But instead, Gibbons who had made the decision and sacrifice to teach in Sudan, was found guilty of ‘insulting religion,’ a victim to a court’s distorted notion of Islamic law and justice. The Sudanese case came on the heels of a recent decision by a Saudi Arabian court that sentenced a 19-year-old rape victim to 200 lashes and six months ...
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars - Middle East Forum
2024年11月11日 · This was the first massive, bitter encounter between people from the north and south of Sudan, setting the foundations for further antagonism. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars is mainly devoted to a discussion of the historical structure of north-south relations throughout Sudan’s modern history. Most noteworthy among them are the 1972 ...
Religious Intolerance in the Gulf States - Middle East Forum
2016年6月1日 · Their religion must be practiced in secret, with converts threatened with death.” [1] Another writer went on to explain the emotional significance of this denial of a basic human right: Most of the Christians who have come here have done so in order to find work in the Arab lands, and as a result, the majority live alone, having left their ...
Handbook on Religious Liberty around the World
2024年11月11日 · The Rutherford Institute’s Handbook looks at its stated concern in 43 countries, including 8 in the Middle East (Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan), a region it finds the most lacking in terms of religious rights.
Islamic Governance - Muslim-Majority Nations Not Highly-Ranked …
2020年2月4日 · Yemen, an Arab country on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula that has 98% of the population practising the religion, was the worst performer with an overall index score of 0.97, followed by Sudan with an overall index score of 1.25.
Islam: ‘Appalling and Abhorrent’ in the Eyes of a Blind World?
2014年5月21日 · If, as Amnesty International declares, flogging and executing a person, in this case a pregnant woman, because of her “religious choice” and marrying a man of a “different religion” are “appalling and abhorrent"; if they are a “flagrant breach of international human rights law"—what do we make of the fact that Muslim converts to Christianity are punished and …
Harvard Outreach Director Speaks about Religion, Peace [on Paul …
2010年10月4日 · Beran has also served as a consultant on global education and development programs in Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Sudan and the United States. Beran’s goal in speaking to Maryville College students was to provide them with “the academic tools to think about Islam and Muslim communities in more sophisticated ways.”
The 10 Most Widely Read Middle East Quarterly Articles of All Time
2016年2月24日 · 10. Francis M. Deng, “ Sudan - Civil War and Genocide,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2001, pp. 13-21. Francis M. Deng, the author or editor of more than three dozen books on conflict resolution and human rights, now serving as South Sudan’s ambassador to the United Nations, wrote this article at the peak of the Sudanese civil war.
My Career Redeeming Slaves - Middle East Forum
Nor were slaves confined to war: the first truce between the Christian king of Makuria and the Muslim colonizers of Egypt, in 653 A.D., required him to deliver annually 360 slaves as tribute to the “Treasury of the Muslims” and forty slaves to the governor of Egypt. 9 Soon, Sudanese slaves became a valuable commodity throughout the Middle East.
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