Session: Indigenous Heritage Under Threat: Protecting Sacred Sites and Cultural Identity in the MENA Region

This session was presented during Coptic Solidarity’s 14th Annual Conference, Egypt’s Theocratic Governance Backsliding: More Risks for Citizenship Rights, held in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room 201, in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 2026.

• Chair: Raymond Ibrahim  – Author, Public Speaker, and Middle East and Political Islam specialist
• Richard Foltin – Fellow for Religious Freedom, Freedom Forum
• Pari Ibrahim – Executive Director, Free Yezidi Foundation