Two-year project aims to spread the word about University’s Mingana Collection at home and abroad.
The rise of radical Islamist militant groups such as Islamic State has seen the persecution of many religious minorities in the Middle East. In recent months, tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians have been forced to flee northern Iraq. Ethnic and religious conflicts in the region are nothing new, but this Christian population is being forced out of lands they have occupied for at least two millennia.
