The Druze and the Kurds: Two Complex Minority Models in a Complex Region

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On July 19 and 20, 2022, the African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) hosted a symposium, "Religious Practices, Transmission, and Literacies in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia." The symposium featured the presentations of seven scholars who conducted two-week research residencies in the AMED Reading Room between June 1 and July 15, 2022. The residencies and symposium are part of the Exploring Challenging Conversations project generously funded by a planning grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The purpose of the initiative was to enhance public awareness of cross-regional and intercultural religious understanding in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and their global diaspora. ; ; Ori Z. Soltes teaches in Georgetown University's Center for Jewish Civilization across disciplines, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director and Curator of the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum and has curated more than 90 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He is also the author of over 300 books, articles, exhibition catalogs, and essays on diverse topics. ; ; The purpose of this study is threefold: to offer a sense of their respective self-definition complexities; to use that sense to underscore how unfathomably complex the region is, overall; to ask whether the specific and varied ways in which these two groups have functioned within the region and its majority groups can offer…

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