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THE VIRTUOUS MASS SUICIDE OF THE NUNS OF ASYUT IN THE 12TH CENTURY: PART 2
The story of the nuns of Asyut is, by all means, a very interesting story – a story of impressive chastity and purity, and great courage. The forty saintly nuns refused to surrender to the Muslim...
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THE GREAT WORK OF RANIA KUHN – A BRILLIANT YOUNG COPTIC ARTIST
Rania Kuhn (signs her work Roro), a brilliant Coptic artist, describes herself as Egyptian Coptic Christian. She was graduated in 2000 from the Faculty of Art Education, Cairo, and resides now in...
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THE COPTIC FACE OF THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL FROM 7TH CENTURY
Archangel Gabriel. Fragment of Coptic fresco of the 7th century The face of St. Gabriel The Archangel Gabriel holding the world sphere in his left hand Marie-Gabrielle Leblanc is a French art...
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THE COPTIC AGPIYA (PRAYER BOOK) FROM AROUND THE 15TH CENTURY AT THE PORTLAND...
The Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon, United States, has in its possession a Coptic Agpiya (Prayer Book) manuscript/book from the 15th century or after. It is in Coptic and Arabic script...
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HOW THE MUSLIMS OF EGYPT BREASTFED THEIR CHILDREN THE HATE OF COPTS AND OTHER...
Interior of School (Muslim) in Cairo by John Frederick Lewis (1865) Edward William Lane (1801 – 1876), the British Orientalist was not a friend of the Copts. In fact, he was a notorious anti-Copt, who...
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A MESSAGE TO MR SISI, THE PRESIDENT OF EGYPT: PROTECT THE COPTS OR FACE...
This week, we witnessed yet another cowardly attack by the Muslims of Egypt on the peaceful Copts; this time, as often, in Minya Governorate. A Muslim mob attacked the Copts of the little village of...
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THE COPTS MUST CREATE THEIR OWN MUSIC AND DO AWAY WITH ARAB MUSIC
A Coptic musician from a fabric from the 6th century Literature and music are essential requirements for any living society – man does not only live by bread but by literature and music too. That is...
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THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ON THE BUILDING OF CHURCHES IN EGYPT: THEY REVEAL...
On 2 September 2016, the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt published an article in Arabic, “What does the Law of Building Churches mean?” This is in response to the recently approved...
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JUST HOW EXTREMIST EGYPT’S MUSLIMS ARE
On April30, 2013, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, of the Pew Research Center, published its unprecedented report: The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society. It is based on public...
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EGYPT’S MUSLIMS’ OPINION ON THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY
In a previous article, I assessed how much Egypt’s Muslims could be classified as extremists. That was based on the Pew survey by the Pew Research Center which was conducted in Egypt in 2011/2012 and...
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THE BIZARRE AND DEPRESSING POSITION OF EGYPT’S MUSLIM WOMEN ON WOMEN RIGHTS
In the previous article, I talked about the Egyptian Muslims’ opinion on the position of women in society, which was revealed by the Pew Research Center which was conducted in Egypt in 2011/2012 and...
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THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE COPTS AND MUSLIMS OF EGYPT 1: PRELUDE
I start with the presumption that the Copts are the direct descendants of the Ancient Egyptians and their purest representation; and it is not my intention here to either prove or disprove it, though I...
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THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE COPTS AND MUSLIMS OF EGYPT 2: THE GENETIC...
In Part 1, we discussed the opposing claims on the matter of the ethnicity of the Copts and Muslims of Egypt, we showed that they were based mainly on political, historical and anthropometric...
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THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE COPTS AND MUSLIMS OF EGYPT 3: THE GENETIC...
In the two previous articles, I spoke about the two opposing views on the matter of ethnic relationship between the Copts and Muslims of Egypt, and then on the study by Henn et al which showed for the...
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EVEN THE COPTIC MUSEUM HAS NO SIGN IN COPTIC. SHAME.
The Coptic Museum in Old Cairo which founded by Marcus Simaika in the early part of the 20th century, and is house to many Coptic artifacts and works of art, that help to preserve Coptic history and...
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WE SHALL NEVER FORGET WHEN THE EGYPTIAN ARMY MASSACRED 27 COPTS ON THIS DAY 5...
ON THIS DAY, 9 10 2011, 27 of our people went out to the Maspero state broadcasting building on the Nile Corniche in central Cairo in order to protest the increasing attacks on the Coptic churches by...
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SALAMA MOUSSA ON COPTIC EXCEPTIONALISM
The Coptic thinker, Salama Moussa Salama Moussa (1887 – 1958) was a great Coptic thinker. During his childhood and early youth, in the town of Zagazig where he was born, he was, like almost other...
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DEAR COPTS, SHAVE YOUR MUSTACHES AND BEARDS!
The sculpture of the Seated Scribe or Squatting Scribe; 4th Dynasty, 2620 – 2500 BC (the Louvre Museum in Paris) The Copts must start cutting off all connection with Arab/Muslim culture by shaving...
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THE SUFFOCATING TYRANNY OF ARAB NATIONALISM
Sati’ al-Husri (ساطع الحصري ) (1880 – 1968) was an Ottoman and Syrian writer, considered to be the greatest Arab nationalist thinker in the 20th century: the “intellectual prophet of Arab...
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THE COPTIC SYNDROME OF TRYING TO FIND COPTIC ORIGIN TO ARAB WORDS: QAHIRA...
In a previous article, I wrote about the desperate attempts by some Copts to find Coptic origin in many Arab words or words that entered us through Arabs, such as ‘nayrouz’, the Persian word. Today, I...
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