Religious Minorities in the Middle East ― Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation

Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.

Anh Nga Longva is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen (Norway). She has published extensively on minority issues in Norway, the Arab Gulf, and Lebanon. Anne Sofie Roald is Professor in Religious Studies and Senior Researcher and former head of the research program Politics of Faith at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. Her publications deal mainly with gender issues, conversion, multiculturalism, Islamism, and Arab media.Contributors include: Maurits H. van den Boogert, Nazli Cagin Bilgili, Ali Carkoglu, Gregoire Delhaye, Kais M. Firro, Bard Kartveit, Catherine Le Thomas, Anh Nga Longva, Laurence Louer, Elizabeth Picard, Annika Rabo, Anne Sofie Roald, Eliz Sanasarian, Michael Stausberg, and Margit Warburg