On August 3, 2023, two strongly worded letters were mailed to President Biden and Secretary Blinken concerning the deteriorating situation in Lebanon. The first was written by Senator James E. Risch, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and addressed to President Biden. In it, the Senator lays out the deep problems facing Lebanon…

July 21, 2023 The Middle East Christian Committee (MECHRIC) condemns the treatment of Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, by the Iraqi government, whose President, Abdul Latif Rashid, revoked Cardinal Sako’s status as Patriarch of the Chaldean Church and the legal caretaker of its endowment on July 14th. Cardinal Sako accused…

June 6, 2023 Daowd Ibrahim Salih is a founding member and Board President of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy (www.damanga.org). A former assistant field officer for the German Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross and Sudanese Red Crescent, Mr. Salih came to the United States as a refugee in exile from Darfur. He was…

April 28, 2023 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy is issuing an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan to end the bloodshed in Khartoum and stop the ethnic cleansing taking place once again in Darfur. The people of Sudan have lost trust in the military junta which took power in October 2021. The…

We at AMCD were saddened by the news of the passing of Tarek Fatah. The 73-year-old Pakistani-Canadian columnist passed away on Monday after a prolonged battle with cancer. “Fatah was a brave intellectual who was also very kind and good-hearted,” began AMCD co-chair, John Hajjar. “He wanted peace and sympathetic understanding between religions and nationalities.…

October We began out full-throated support for what became the “Women, Life, Freedom” in Iran with a demonstration in Seattle and a zoom conference with our members.  We urged all the countries of the Middle East to reject clerical rule and called specifically for the overthrow of the regime in Iran. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood…

The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy calls for a worldwide boycott of German companies doing business with Iran until the regime cancels its planned execution of Jamshid Sharmahd and releases him. Jamshid Sharmahd is a German Iranian citizen who was living in California and running a website for Iranian dissidents posting their reports on human…