Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan: The Tale of Suffering, Hope and Resilience

Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan: The Tale of Suffering, Hope and Resilience

In March of 2023, a group of researchers from the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary, undertook three weeks of intensive fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan, visiting major cities, small towns and villages throughout the region. The research is part of a multi-nation project, Attacks on Christian Communities and Institutions, which is jointly sponsored by the Danube Institute, Hungary Helps and the Batthyány Lajos Foundation. This book represents the fruits of this research. In its pages you will hear church leaders, government officials and military officers as well as ordinary citizens in their own voices. Included also are academic articles from noted scholars and NGO leaders as well as detailed transcripts of the interviews conducted by the Danube Institute researchers. Together this book presents a complete picture of the situations of both Christians and Yezidis in Iraqi Kurdistan in the period immediately following the defeat of ISIS.


Prof Jeffrey Kaplan is the author or editor of 30 books and over 100 articles and anthology chapters on religious violence, millenarianism, history, terrorism, and reconciliation. His most recent books are The Early Israeli Settler Movement: The Birth Pangs of Gush Emunim, Anti-Semitism in Hungary: Appearance and Reality, The Legacy of 9/11: Transformations of Policing, Intelligence, and Counter-Terrorism. He has also published the career retrospective Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies, as the first volume in a series.

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ISBN: 1-0364-5096-1

ISBN13: 978-1-0364-5096-0

Release Date: 1st September 2025

Pages: 355

Price: £75.99