Throughout my ministry, I have been blessed by countless books, courses, lectures, and scholarship from leading, mostly Western, voices. I earned my doctorate from a prominent Christian institution in the […]
This article is adapted from a post on the ABTS blog on July 26, 2018. In my last blog post in February, I wrote about women in seminary. I based my main argument on the […]
Long ago, wise men in Eastern Arabia noticed a beautiful star burning brightly in the night sky and set out on an adventure to see where it would lead them. […]
This article is adapted from a post on the ABTS blog on May 17, 2018. We tend to put faces on unfortunate things. It is not a good practice but we do it […]
This Sunday may celebrate the ‘Night of Power’ (Laylat al-Qadr) for many Muslims when Mohammad was thought to have received the first revelation of the Qur’an from the angel Jibril […]
This article originally appeared on the ABTS blog on May 24, 2018. In March of this year at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, I saw a man sitting next to […]
This article originally appeared on the ABTS blog on May 4, 2018. Jordan-Iraq Brief – May 2018 News The financial crunch of refugee presence in Syria’s neighboring countries is pushing countries like Jordan, Turkey, and […]
This article originally appeared on the ABTS blog on May 4, 2018. Syria Brief – May 2018 News The United States bombs Syria with the support of Britain and France. Iran interferes in […]
The fasting month of Ramadan is soon approaching for Muslims worldwide. For many, this is a time of celebration with family, a return to tradition and spiritual focus. The news […]
We would like to invite you to the Institue for Middle East Studies Middle East Consultation this summer (June 18-22, 2018) in Beirut, Lebanon. In the 21st century, religious diversity is a […]