STORIES
Religious Beliefs
August/September 2018
This edition explores the diversity of customs, practices and beliefs across the region.
Living as Muslims in Christian Armenia
Thirty-six-year-old Iranian linguist Mariam Torabi came to Armenia last year with a goal not unlike that of other visitors: to learn a new language and experience another...
18 September, 2018
Georgia’s Yazidis: Religion as Identity
The Yazidis, ethnic kin to the Kurds, live predominantly in northern Iraq, northern Syria and eastern Turkey, and follow a monotheistic faith that incorporates elements o...
6 September, 2018
Armenia’s Seven Nuns
One of the world’s oldest, predominantly Christian lands, Armenia is dotted with centuries-old monasteries inhabited by scores of monks, but its convents are limite...
1 August, 2018