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Anthony O’Mahony is a lecturer in Theology and the History of Christianity at Heythrop College at the University of London. O’Mahony is among the world’s leading scholars of Middle Eastern Christianity. He was founding director of Heythrop's Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue and now serves as director of Heythrop's Centre for Eastern Christianity. His numerous publications include Christianity in the Middle East: Studies in Modern History, Politics and Theology (2008) and the co-edited volumes Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East (2009), Christianity and Jerusalem: Studies in Theology and Politics in the Modern Holy Land (2010), and The Catholic Church in the Contemporary Middle East (Melisende, 2010). O'Mahony was also a part of the Christianity and Freedom Project headed by the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project.