Joseph Amar

Joseph Amar is Emeritus Professor of Christianity in the Middle East at the University of Notre Dame.

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A Patriarch Flees Baghdad

Cardinal Sako’s flight to Erbil underscores the complex rivalries playing out among Christian warlords in places like Iraq and Lebanon.

By Joseph Amar

August 31, 2023

Article

Your Lebanon & Mine

In Lebanon, hyperinflation, an influx of refugees, and complete political collapse have created a dangerous crisis.

By Joseph Amar

August 10, 2021

Middle East

War and Peace

Foreign Affairs

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‘Women Are Proclaiming the Word’

While St. Ephrem of Syria did not explicitly call for ordination of women to the diaconate, he envisioned radical equality between the sexes in ministry.

By Joseph Amar

July 21, 2020

Women in the Church

Theology

Synod on the Amazon

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St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

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