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The Middle East's largely unknown religious diversity
Most Western travelers picture the Middle East as uniformly Muslim, yet the region is home to some of the oldest Christian communities on earth and to other faith communities like the Druze and Alawites that few visitors have ever heard of. From Lebanon's famously diverse polity and Syria's ancient villages that still speak the language of Jesus to Egypt's openly celebrated Coptic Christian holidays and government-funded synagogue restorations, the region's religious map is far richer than the headlines suggest.
