Christians in Middle Eastern History

John-Paul Ghobrial is Professor of Modern and Global History at the University of Oxford and the Lucas Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College. He was the Principal Investigator for two ERC-funded projects that explored religious identity in the Ottoman Empire: Stories of Survival: Recovering the Connected Histories of Eastern Christianity in the Early Modern World (2015-2020) and Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East (2021-2026), both based at Oxford. Michael A. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Co-Director of the Program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy at Princeton University. He is the author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and a biography of Enver Pasha forthcoming with Princeton University Press. Christian C. Sahner is Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oxford and Margoliouth Fellow in Arabic at New College. His books include Christian Martyrs under Islam (Princeton University Press, 2018) and The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam (Liverpool University Press, 2023). Jack Tannous is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. He is interested in the history of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic speaking Christians in the Middle East. He is the author of The Making of the Medieval Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2018).