EAN: 9781526625854

THE VANISHING - JANINE DI GIOVANNI TASCHENBUCH

**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** 'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world
created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and
persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR 'Profoundly moving' MARK TULLY _______________________ The
Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria 
Egypt  Iraq  Lebanon and Palestine after 2 000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the
countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast 
on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to
first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point  now tilted
toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where
their prophets wandered  where Jesus Christ preached  where the great Doctors and hierarchs of
the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt
the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip  ancient communities  the birthplaces of prophets
and saints  are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a
characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing  Janine di Giovanni
has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small  hardy
communities where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Full of faith
and hope  di Giovanni's riveting personal stories make a unique act of pre-archeology: the last
chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.

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