Minority rights in the middle east joshua castellino kathleen a cavanaugh within the middle east there are a wide range of minority groups outside the mainstream religious and ethnic culture this book provides a detailed examination of their rights as minorities within this region and their changing status throughout the twentieth and . Time and again minority rights in the middle east effectively chronicles the interplay of religious political and historical forces that have framed contemporary settings including the . This the third book of the oup series on minority rights law focusses on minorities in the middle east written at a time of great turmoil and also hope in the region the book seeks to examine important minority questions that are central to the events that have unfolded across the region from 2011 to date the middle east is a region that raises contentious political legal and historical . The rights of minorities in the middle east are subject to a range of legal frameworks having developed in part from islamic law and in recent years subject to international human rights law and