'convert, marry me, or die'
Syria: Islamic jihadis gang-raped a 60-year-old Christian woman before stoning her to death. ... Syria: On July 11, the Islamic State detonated a car bomb just outside the Virgin Mary Church in the city of Qamishli. ..…
ottoman cosmopolitanism and the myth of the sectarian middle east
Photo by Photo12/Getty France separated the Christian-dominated state of Lebanon from the rest of geographic Syria, which itself was parcelled out along sectarian Alawi, Druze and Sunni polities under overarching French dominion. ... Photo courtesy Wikipedia In July 1860, an..…
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