Across the Middle East and the Arab world, Christmas is being celebrated by a wide range of communities and broadly respected as a religious and cultural event. In cities, towns and diasporic spaces, Christian communities are marking the holiday through worship, family gatherings, and communal rituals. For many others, Christmas is a part of the shared social calendar, which reflects a long-standing accommodation of religious diversity. The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity.

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Across the Middle East and the Arab world, Christmas is being celebrated by a wide range of communities and broadly respected as a religious and cultural event. In cities, towns…