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"Iraqi Christians: A Long History"

For Brussels, the Arab Cultural Center organizing this Friday, March 4, 2011 at 18:30 a conference entitled :

Iraqi Christians: A long history

Ephrem-Isa Yousif by

It be preceded by a presentation and debate on the situation currently affecting the Arab world.

Iraqi Christians: a long history

Ephrem-Isa Yousef

The Christian community in Iraq had forged many centuries before the advent of Islam. In fact, from the third century AD Roman, she was already in place. Its priests and monks play a role in the circulation of knowledge in scientific exchanges. It will be the first to revolt against papal authority in constituting the V th century, an independent church based on the doctrine of the Patriarch Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople. In the Sassanid period, Iraq is almost Christian. The reality that follows on the various churches in Iraq will always be complex. They ignore the Crusaders and feel their presence. But in the thirteenth century th arrival of the Mongol Tamerlane leave only a few islands in Mesopotamia Nestorians. In 1552, members of this church will meet in Rome to form the Chaldean Church. These Christians in Iraq, and despite some moments of respite, such as the Sultan Abdul Mejid, which, in the nineteenth century establishes the equality of religions, will suffer the vagaries of history. After the Second World War, they were evaluated at 3, 5% of the population, and recent manipulations of religious movements in Iraq, precipitate their exile. How not to reflect this presence that was actively involved in building the Iraqi way of thinking?

Friday, March 4 at 18:30 in

Arab Cultural Centre ( European Institute of Arab Culture) 2 rue de l'Alliance, 1210 Brussels - Verbondsstraat 2, 1210 Brussel Tel

. 02 218 64 74 e-mail : culture-arabe@skynet.be

Ephrem-Isa YOUSIF was born in 1944 in Sanat, Assyrian-Chaldean village north of Iraq. He began his studies in Mosul and has continued at the University of Nice. He obtained two doctorates in France, the first of Civilizations and the second in Philosophy in 1980 he has taught since 1981, philosophy, the Arabic language and literature at the University of Toulouse. YOUSIF Ephrem-Isa is the author of several books on Mesopotamia and of Syriac culture.

Several articles were devoted to him in Arabic language newspapers. Currently, he gives classes and lectures in the Paris region. He is editor of the Arabic editions of the Harmattan, and also a member member of the Association of Writers in French Language (ADELF), scientific advisor to the publications of the High Council of Francophonie.