Shivan Fazil, a researcher with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at SIPRI joins the Middle East File to discuss his article: The Political Marginalisation of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Iraq. Shivan's article was featured in Middle East File | 14.

This piece is the cover article of the Spring issue of Manara Magazine: Suffering, Perseverance, and Hope: Minority Voices from the Middle East and North Africa published by the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF). 

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On the first episode of the Middle East File, Nadine Maenza, the outgoing Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom joins to discuss the newly released USCIRF Annual Report 2022. 

USCIRF Releases 2022 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. Policy

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US support of global religious freedom must go beyond rhetoric by Lena Abboud (The Hill)

A glimmer of hope in bringing accountability to religious freedom violators abroad by Nadine Maenza and Nury Turkel (The Hill)

USCIRF Welcomes Reappointed and Newly Appointed Commissioners, Expresses Gratitude to Outgoing Commissioners