Joseph Amar

Oct 15, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Joseph Amar |Peter Quinn |George Scialabba

On October 1 Israel sent ground forces into Lebanon, after months of artillery exchanges with Hezbollah, the Iranian-allied militia. This was followed days later by Israeli bombing raids aimed at decimating the militia’s leadership and destroying its infrastructure. Hezbollah began shelling northern Israel over a year ago when Hamas fighters crossed into Israel from Gaza, killing 1,200 Israelis, including 46 U.S. citizens, and taking 251 hostages.

Sep 25, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Phil Klay |Paul Baumann |Joseph Amar |David Katzenstein

In the brief introduction to Distant Journeys, a new collection of photography assembled from trips undertaken over nearly five decades and across six continents, David Katzenstein tells us that his “passion for discovery” began early. Perhaps it was when he was only three years old, gripping his father’s back as their “frisky gray mare” galloped across a beach in Cuba, or when he visited Norway at age seven and watched a waterfall plunge half a kilometer into the sea below.

Apr 2, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Alexander Stern |Amirah Orozco |Joseph Amar |Thomas Geoghegan

On October 19, 2023, an Israeli airstrike near St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City caused a wall of the church to collapse, killing eighteen Palestinian civilians who had taken refuge there. If, as Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated, the deaths were a case of “collateral damage,” what happened two months later at Holy Family Catholic Church was targeted and premeditated.

Mar 27, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Amirah Orozco |Tzvi Novick |Joseph Amar |Arvin Alaigh

On October 19, 2023, an Israeli airstrike near St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City caused a wall of the church to collapse, killing eighteen Palestinian civilians who had taken refuge there. If, as Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated, the deaths were a case of “collateral damage,” what happened two months later at Holy Family Catholic Church was targeted and premeditated.

Aug 30, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Joseph Amar |Mollie Wilson O’Reilly |Daniele Palmer |Santiago Ramos

In a move that has sent shockwaves throughout Christian communities in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, announced that he was leaving his headquarters in Baghdad and relocating to the city of Erbil, in the Kurdish-held region of Iraq.