Feature: How did Armenian communities in Iraq come to place and how has Iraqi history impacted their presence today?

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Presenter: Tarik Zahr

Delivered: NYC on February 11, 2024

Tarik talks about the interesting history of Armenian Apostolic Church (Surb Grigor Lusavorich) in Baghdad (vers 1957).

Sources & Future References

• The Armenians of Iraq since 2003: Two decades of progess or regression

• A hidden heritage: Armenians in the Levant and their impact on Arab society

• The Saga of Survival: Armenian Palestinians, the British Mandate and the Nakba

• Keeping Armenia alive in the capital of Sudan

• The Armenians of Palestine 1918-48

• The Ebb and Flow of the Armenian minority in the Arab Middle East

• Iraqi Armenians: Minority on the Brink of Extinction

• The Armenians: A cultural and historical heritage in Iraq

• Why did Assad, Saddam, and Mubarak protect christians?

• Christians in Iraq and the 2003 war: Trials and tribulations of a minority

• A remnant remaining: Armenians amid Northern Iraq’s Christian minority

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