THE COPTIC CROWNING OF EMPEROR HAILE SILASSIE I OF ETHIOPIA
The above two cinematic clips (the first some 30 minutes and the second some 26 minutes long) are rare ones and show the coronation of the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Silassie I (1830 – 1974), coronation...
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LORD CROMER ON THE COPTS I: ON THE RELIGION AND MANNERS OF THE COPTS
Lord Cromer (1841 – 1917) Lord Cromer (1841 – 1917) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He was the 1st Consul-General of Egypt in Egypt (1883 – 1907) after the British Occupation in...
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SYNESIUS OF CYRENE ON A COWARDLY BEHAVIOUR IN WAR AND HIS DUTY TO GO TO WAR...
Map of the area of Cyrenaica (in eastern Libya now). Its famous five cities (Pentapolis) were: Cyrene and its port Apollonia (now, Susa), Ptolemais (the next capital after Cyrene’s destruction by an...
View ArticleTHE SEVEN MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CHRONICLE OF JOHN OF NIKIU
I had been under the impression that only two manuscripts of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu exist. This was based on Hermann Zotenberg’s and Robert H. Charles’ studies of the Ethiopic manuscripts,...
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ROBERT HENRY CHARLES, TRANSLATOR OF THE CHRONICLE OF JOHN OF NIKIU FROM...
Canon R. Charles (1855 – 1931) Robert Henry Charles (1855 – 1931) was an Irish scholar who was Canon (1913 – 1919) and then Archdeacon of Westminster (1919 – 1931). He has written, translated and...
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MINIATURES OF THE FRENCH COPTIC LEGION
The above are miniatures by Robert Moore’s Military Miniatures of the Coptic Legion under General Y’acoub the Copt during the French Expedition in Egypt (1798 – 1801). The brave Copts, in their...
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THERE IS NO WORD FOR DOWN’S SYNDROME IN MY LANGUAGE TOO
A girl with Down’s syndrome BBC News published today a story titled ‘There is no word for Down’s syndrome in my language’. The story is about Elly Kitaly, from Tanzania in Africa, who gave birth to a...
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LORD CROMER ON THE COPTS II: ON THE CHARACTER OF THE COPTS
Team of Dogs in the Desert by Jean Leon Gerome (1866): they are all Orientals I have spoken about Lord Cromer’s views on the religion and manners of the Copts in a previous article. In this article, I...
View ArticleDE LOCIS SANCTIS (ON HOLY PLACES): ANY THING PARTICULARLY COPTIC IN IT?
De Locis Sanctis (On Holy Places) is a book written by the Irish monk, considered a saint in both Irish and Scottish tradition, Adomnán (624 – 704). He was abbot of Iona Abbey, in the Isle of Iona, off...
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THE COPTIC NATIONALISTS HAIL THE SUDANESE PEOPLE
he Sudanese people have once again proved that they are a great nation. Thrice they revolted against military rule, first in the 1864 revolution against the ‘Aboud junta; second in 1985 against the...
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TRANSLATE FROM COPTIC TO ENGLISH IF YOU CAN
The following is a text from The Holy Workshop of Virtue: The Life of John the Little by Zacharias of Sakha.[1] I invite readers to translate, if they can, with accurate punctuation and all....
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THE COPTOPHILE REV. ARCHIBALD HENRY SAYCE ON THE COPTS
Archibald Henry Sayce (1845 – 1933) Archibald Henry Sayce (1845 – 1933) was an English Assyriologist and Egyptologist who was also a Coptophile. Though his main work as was in capacity as Professor of...
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A SHORT SKETCH OF COPTIC HISTORY BY MRS EDITH LOUISA BUTCHER
Edith Louisa Butcher (or Mrs. E. L. Butcher) (1854 – 1933) is a known Coptophile. She wrote her celebrated “The Story of the Church of Egypt” in 1987, a monumental work in two volumes (Vol. One &...
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FLINDERS PETRIE, FATHER OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, ON THE COPTS
The great Egyptologist and Coptophile, Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942) William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942), an English archaeologist, and the Father of Egyptian archaeology, was a Coptophile....
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THE GREAT ALFRED BUTLER ON THE COPTS
Alfred Joshua Butler (1850 – 1936) Alfred Joshua Butler (1850 – 1936), the English historian and scholar who has written the celebrated Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt (Oxford, 1884) and The Arab...
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BRITISH EGYPTOLOGIST JOHN WARD ON THE NATIVE CHRISTIANS OF EGYPT
John Ward (1832 – 1912) was another English Egyptologist who supported the Coptic demands for justice during the Consul-Generalship of Eldon Gorst (1907 – 1911), and wrote a chapter in Kyriakos...
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AMELIA EDWARD ON THE COPTS
Amelia Edwards (1831 – 1892) Amelia Edwards (1831 – 1892) was an English Egyptologist and a co-founder[1] of the Egypt Exploration Fund (later, the Egypt Exploration Society), in 1882 – an...
View ArticleTHE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP OF EGYPT WILL NOT ALLOW THE REVIVAL OF COPTIC
Egypt’s military rulers will not allow the revival of the Coptic language, and therefore we are against it, not just for this but as one of the main reasons. The revival of Coptic will not happen exept...
View ArticleTHE DEATH OF MORSI
Morsi, Egypt’s ex-president, has died. May God rest his soul in peace. When Morsi was elected president on 30 June 2012, we disagreed with him; and despite his announcement that he would be president...
View ArticleWE NEED LINGUISTS TO REVIVE COPTIC
Linguists are those who studied linguistics – and linguistics is the scientific study of language. Put several lines under ‘scientific’. This is what we need – Coptic linguists with a scientific...
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