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In the Arab world, there are also Christian communities, although many Westerners still ignore this fact. Little known, lost in the vague plurality of the Eastern Churches, ‘the Church of the Arabs' has suffered a singular fate: local communities have been disrupted, treated like outsiders despite their deep roots and constantly under threat today formed by Arab culture yet deprived of all political influence since their beginnings. In the new Arab world, prey to all sorts of tensions and violence, at a time when East-West relations are marked by new forms of incomprehension or confrontation between Islam and Christianity, what does the future hold for them? Published for the first time in 1977, supplemented by a long preface, this book is still tragically topical thirty years later.