Kay Rubaceck is author of Who Are China's Walking Dead? (Liberty Hill Press, 2020) and is interviewed by Jeremy P. Barker, Director, Middle East Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute. 

Kay Rubaceck is an award-winning filmmaker, author, TV host, and speaker on faith, family, and freedom. Her work includes the film Finding Courage (2020), Hard to Believe, and numerous documentaries and specials. 

Hosted in partnership with the Religious Freedom Institute (www.RFI.org), the IRF Summit Authors' Corner took place at the IRF Summit 2022 (www.IRFsummit.org) in Washington, D.C. and featured interviews with authors on a range of books related to religious freedom issues around the globe.

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Arielle Del Turco and Lela Gilbert with LTG (Ret.)Jerry Boykin are authors of Heroic Faith: Hope Amid Global Persecution (Fidelis Publishing, 2022) and are interviewed by Todd Huizinga, Senior Fellow for Europe, Religious Freedom Institute.

Hosted in partnership with the Religious Freedom Institute (www.RFI.org), the IRF Summit Authors' Corner took place at the IRF Summit 2022 (www.IRFsummit.org) in Washington, D.C. and featured interviews with authors on a range of books related to religious freedom issues around the globe. 

See more interviews here: IRF Summit Authors' Corner

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Lela Gilbert is author of Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World (Monarch Books, 2021) and is interviewed by Paul Marshall, Director, South and Southeast Asia Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute. 

Lela Gilbert is Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute and Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom and Coalitions Coordinator at Family Research Council. She is a prolific and author or co-author of more than 60 books, including Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians with Hudson Fellows Nina Shea and Paul Marshall (Thomas Nelson, 2013), Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion (Oxford University Press, 2008) with Paul Marshall and Roberta Green Ahmanson. 

Hosted in partnership with the Religious Freedom Institute (www.RFI.org), the IRF Summit Authors' Corner took place at the IRF Summit 2022 (www.IRFsummit.org) in Washington, D.C. and featured interviews with authors on a range of books related to religious freedom issues around the globe. 

See more interviews here: IRF Summit Authors' Corner

Purchase books here: IRF Summit Authors' Corner (Bookshop) 

Stephen M. Rasche is author of The Disappearing People: The Tragic Fate of Christians in the Middle East (Bombardier Books, 2020) and is interviewed by Jeremy P. Barker, Director, Middle East Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute.

Stephen Rasche is a Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom in Conflict Regions at the Religious Freedom Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Catholic University of Erbil, and a Visiting Scholar at the Kukah Centre in Abuja, Nigeria.

Hosted in partnership with the Religious Freedom Institute (www.RFI.org), the IRF Summit Authors' Corner took place at the IRF Summit 2022 (www.IRFsummit.org) in Washington, D.C. and featured interviews with authors on a range of books related to religious freedom issues around the globe. 

See more interviews here: IRF Summit Authors' Corner

Purchase books here: IRF Summit Authors' Corner (Bookshop)

Sean R. Roberts is author of The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press, 2020) and is interviewed by Jeremy P. Barker, Director, Middle East Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute. 

Professor Roberts is Associate Professor in the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies (IDS) MA program at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. 

Hosted in partnership with the Religious Freedom Institute (www.RFI.org) The IRF Summit Authors' Corner took place at the IRF Summit 2022 (www.IRFsummit.org) in Washington, D.C. and featured interviews with authors on a range of books related to religious freedom issues around the globe.

Purchase books here: IRF Summit Authors' Corner (Bookshop)

Naomi Prodeau, the Lead Lawyer at the Investigations Project at Free Yezidi Foundation, joins the Middle East File to discuss the International Protocol on Documenting Violations of Religious Freedom.

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International Protocol on Documenting Violations of Religious Freedom

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Knox Thames, Visiting Expert at the United States Institute of Peace and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, joins the Middle East File to discuss an article co-authored with Emily Scolaro: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Cultural Heritage Protection: Synergistic not Competitive. The article explores exciting possibilities for how cultural heritage protection and religious freedom promotion can go hand-in-hand to preserve not only the memory of religious communities but also to build toward robust religious pluralism in the present and future. There are important opportunities in multilateral forums like the Ministerial to Advance Freedom of Religion or Belief, the IRF Summit, and others to build on this momentum.

The article is published in the Review of Faith and International Affairs and is available Open Access for a limited time: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Cultural Heritage Protection: Synergistic not Competitive

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Miles Windsor, Senior Manager for Strategy and Campaigns for the Middle East Action Team at the Religious Freedom Institute, joins the Middle East File to discuss his article: How Liz Truss Can Champion Religious Freedom at U.K. Ministerial Conference. 

The conversation discusses the potential impact of the upcoming UK-hosted Ministerial to Advance Freedom of Religion or Belief and other initiatives such as the IRF Summit (www.IRFsummit.org). 

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Building on Positive Developments in the Middle East and North Africa: Acknowledging Progress on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Identifying Further Steps and Opportunities  

Advancing International Religious Freedom in the Special Relationship: A Transatlantic Conversation

The UK Must Learn to Lead on Religious Freedom 

Helene Fisher, Global Gender Persecution Specialist at Open Doors International, joins the Middle East File podcast to discuss Invisible: The Gender Report 2022. the latest gender specific religious persecution report from Open Doors. The report was featured in the Middle East File | 14. 

Over the past five years, this report from Open Doors has helped shine light on the particular ways in which religious persecution impacts women and girls, distinct from men and boys, and how that help to inform policy and practice in the efforts to protect the religious freedom of all people. 

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Dennis Petri, International Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, joins the Middle East File to discuss his article: The Tyranny of Religious Freedom Rankings. Dennis' article featured in Middle East File | 17.

This article provides further nuance to the discussion about how to describe and measure levels of religious freedom around the world. 

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