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Dr. Metri Raheb

Rev. Mitri Raheb is a Palestinian born in Bethlehem. He completed his university education in Germany at the Hermannsburg Theological Seminary (1980-1984) and the Philipps University in Marburg (1984-1988) where he received his doctorate in Protestant Theology in Church History. He served as the senior pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church (1988-2017), president of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (2011-2017), and editor-in-chief of Al-Liqaa Journal that deals with religious and heritage studies related to the Holy Land (1992-1996). He founded the Christian Academic Forum for Citizenship in the Arab World (CAFCAW), and he is one of the founders and authors of Kairos Palestine, an expert in Mashreq Christians, and Muslim-Christian dialogue, lecturer at several American and European universities. He Authored more than twenty books and dozens of articles translated into eleven languages. His books include:
In Arabic: Religion and State, 2011; Arab Christians and the challenges facing the region, 2013
In English: Sailing through Troubled Waters, 2013); Faith in the Face of Empire (2014), and The Cross in Contexts, 2017
He is currently president of Dar Al Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, which he founded in 2006