Dr. Jens Kreinath is an anthropologist who's fieldwork is on heterodox traditions of Islam and inter-religious pilgrimage centers in Turkey. On July 11, 2025, he gave us this interview to speak about the new post-Assad regime in Syria and what it means for minorities.

Since 2008, Dr. Kreinath has maintained close contacts with members of the Alawite and Oriental Christian communities in Antakya/Hatay, attentively following developments in the Syrian Turkish border region.

In 2025, he became editor for the Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany (ZOCD), where he recently published an article titled ‘Targeted Killings of Alawites in the Coastal Regions of Syria and the Lack of Accountability of the Transitional Government’. His lecture ‘The Baniyas Massacre: A Report on the Systematic Murder of Civilians Based on Eyewitness Accounts’ aims to reconstruct the chronology of the massacres that occurred on March 7, 2025. Between late March and early May 2025, Dr. Kreinath collected eyewitness accounts, which he uses as reliable evidence for his analysis.

The Institute for the Documentation of Human Rights Violations against Religious Minorities in the Levant (IDHRV-ARMIL): This Institute’s specific purposes are to engage in research, documentation, and service, namely, to collect, analyze, and document material evidence, as well as to prepare verifiable witness accounts on atrocities and crimes against humanity committed against members of religious, ethnic, and other minorities in the Levant.