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What would the study of Middle Eastern Christianity look like if scholars put women at the center of their research? This paper adapts the question that Dana Robert posed two decades ago in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research about the study of women in World Christianity in 2006. It focuses on two issues that are central to the future of Middle Eastern Christianity: 1) the critical contributions that women make to Middle Eastern churches; 2) the growth and development of Middle Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant communities in the diaspora, particularly in North and South America.