COPTIC WOMEN’S CONDITIONS INSIDE HOUSES IN 1910
The English author, Edith Louisa Butcher (1854 – 1933), writes in her book, Things Seen in Egypt, published in 1910, about Coptic women’s conditions inside their houses: The Moslem women, as is well...
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THE CONDITIONS OF COPTIC WOMEN IN THE HOUSEHOLD IN 1840s AS REFLECTED IN...
Figure 1: The Hosh Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch, Cairo, by John Frederick Lewis; 1864 Sociology (that is, the study of the development, structure, interaction, and collective behaviour of...
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AN ARAB EDITOR TO A COPTIC CORESPONDENT CALLING FOR THE REVIVAL OF COPTIC:...
Recently, I came across a book by Murad Morqos Baulis, لغتك اللغة المصرية الحديثة (Your Language: The Modern Egyptian Language), which was printed in Cairo in 1960. In an interesting part of it...
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[4] THOUGHTS ON THE MODERNISATION OF THE COPTIC LANGUAGE: WE NEED A COPTIC...
In two previous articles dedicated to arithmetic and mathematical , The Coptic numerical notation system must change and The Copts must find a word for ‘zero’, I argued for the adoption of the...
View ArticleA COPTIC QUILL: THE FIRST BOOK IN MODERN COPTIC LITERATURE
A group of Coptic language enthusiasts, the RemEnKimi Group, which was founded in 2000, has published in 2010 (1726 AM) a digital book that contains several pieces of modern Bohairic Coptic literature...
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“O, JESUS COME!” A COPTIC SHORT STORY BY ONE ABRAM, TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY ALCOCK
In a previous article, I wrote about A Coptic Quill, the first book, only available online, which has been written by modern Copts, and includes short stories, plays and poems. One of the short...
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JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS LAMENTS THE FATE OF THE COPTS
Figure 1: John Lloyd Stephens, engraving from 1854 John Lloyd Stephens (1805 – 1852) was an American explorer. He is better known for his discovery of the Maya civilization in Central Middle America,...
View ArticleJOHN LLOYD STEPHENS MEETS THE ONLY CHRISTIAN IN HEBRON – A COPTIC CHRISTIAN
In a previous article, John Lloyd Stephens Laments the Fate of the Copts, I promised to talk about the encounter of the American explorer and writer, John Lloyd Stephens, with a Copt in Hebron, the...
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THE MARY TREE IN HELIOPOLIS BY THE GERMAN PAINTER FRIEDRICH PERLBERG
Johann Friedrich Perlberg (1848 – 1921) was a German artist who in 1896 visited Egypt , Nubia and Sudan, and painted the Orient using watercolours. Many of his painting were later published in...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 12: ATTITUDE TO AFTERLIFE: FEAR OR HOPE?
Saint Sisoes the Great (also Sisoi, Shishoy) was an Egyptian ascetic from the second half of the fourth century and the early sixth century (d. 429). After living for some time in the desert of Scete,...
View ArticleTHE UNFAIR CHARGE OF INTOXICATION AMONG THE COPTS
The charge of intoxication by alcohol against the Copts was frequently made by the English in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This charge I have addressed in a few articles in the past:...
View ArticleTHE DESERT FATHERS IN TOUCH WITH THE PAGAN PAST: THE POEMEN BROTHERS IN A...
All the stories in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers) are edifying, full of wisdom and sweet. But a certain group holds a distinctive place, and carries a special taste, for it...
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1. THE ENGLISH WRITER SIMON HENRY LEEDER ON “THE CUSTOM OF SECLUSION AND...
Figure 1: The English writer and apologist for Islam, S. H. Leeder (taken from The Modern Sons of the Pharaohs) Simon Henry Leeder published in 1918 his Modern Sons of the Pharaohs,[1] a large tome on...
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2. THE ENGLISH WRITER SIMON HENRY LEEDER ON “THE CUSTOM OF SECLUSION AND...
Figure 1: A feast for Nebamun from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt. 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC, in the British Museum (Room 61) Figure 2: Nebamun hunting in the marshes, Nebamun’s...
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3. THE ENGLISH WRITER SIMON HENRY LEEDER ON “THE CUSTOM OF SECLUSION AND...
Figure 1: St. Arsenius the Great, Monastery of St. Catherine (From Icons of Sinai) In Part 1, I published the observation by the English writer, S. H. Leeder, that the Coptic women in his days veiled...
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LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM THE BONDAGE OF ARAB CULTURAL BY LEARNING AND SPEAKING...
Figure 1: Free Spirit by the British artist, Josie Appleby One must not be under any illusion: the struggle to revive Coptic – that is the struggle that you, your family and friends speak Coptic as a...
View ArticleA BRIEF HISTORY OF COPTIC PERSONAL STATUS LAW
I would like to draw the attention of my readers to this important article: A Brief History of Coptic Personal Law by Ryan Rowberry and John Khalil, which was published in 1910 in Berkeley Journal of...
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4. THE ENGLISH WRITER SIMON HENRY LEEDER ON “THE CUSTOM OF SECLUSION AND...
In Part 1, I published the observation by the English writer, S. H. Leeder, that the Coptic women in his days veiled their faces and were secluded at homes, though many abandoned these traditions after...
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5. THE ENGLISH WRITER SIMON HENRY LEEDER ON “THE CUSTOM OF SECLUSION AND...
Figure 1: The Theotokos, is never depicted with a face-veil The English writer, S. H. Leeder, – an apologist for Islam – wrote in 1918 The Modern Sons of the Pharaohs, a book that is neither pro- nor...
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