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Always a Stranger – The Situation of the Mandaeans of Iraq

A research paper on the situation of the Mandaeans, a pacifist religious minority in Iraq and Iran who are followers of the Gnostic Gospels, since the 1991 invasion of Iraq. Contains portions of an interview with the first Mandaean family to marry in a Mandaean ceremony in the United States. Discusses conditions for the Mandaeans after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Available here