On March 17, the U.S. State Department designated the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State against Christians and other religious minorities as “genocide.” For more insight into this and other developments in the Middle East, I interviewed Andrew Doran, a senior adviser for In Defense of Christians, a Washington, DC-based advocacy group for Christians in the Middle East. Doran, who previously served on the executive secretariat of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO at the State Department, has published dozens of articles about U.S. foreign policy and human rights in the Middle East.
In part I of a wide-ranging interview, Doran discussed the origins of the current perilous state of affairs in the Middle East and what the international community can do to assist Christians and other religious minorities in the region.
