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Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia
Abdullah Saeed
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)