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THE TOMB OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE COPTS I: INTRODUCTION
Alexander the Great fighting the Persians in the Battle of Issus in 333 BC. Detail from the Alexander Mosaic, dating from c. 100 BC, from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. The tomb of Alexander the...
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THE TOMB OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE COPTS II: MAPPING ALEXANDRIA
Figure 1: Map of ancient Alexandria after Michael Livingston Alexandria of Egypt was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Prior to that, the site of Alexandria was occupied by an Egyptian...
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POPE SHENOUDA III WAS NOT AN ARAB; HE WAS NOT THE POPE OF THE ARABS; AND THE...
There has recently been much talk about a film given the title of “Pope of the Arabs” that was intended to be produced by the Monastery of Anba Pishoi to portray the life of Pope Shenouda III (1971 –...
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THE GENEALOGY OF ZAHI HAWASS: ARAB AND NOT FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
A false Pharaoh. Illustration by Floc’h in The New Yorker (November 8, 2009) Zahi Hawass (b. 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist and he occupied for a considerable time the position of a Minister of...
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HOW ADOLF ERMAN GREETED SAMI GABRA
Sami Gabra, the Coptic Egyptologist (from Le Monde Égyptien, 1939) and Amenhotep III (statue in the British Museum) Sami Gabra (1893-1979), was a Coptic Egyptologist and Coptologist who studied...
View ArticleOUR CHILDREN AND YOUTH SHOULD NOT BE FED ON ARABIC AND ISLAMIC LITERATURE
Since the nationalisation of educational in Egypt by the Arab nationalist Nasserist regime in 1955, and the end of the Coptic autonomous educational system that had been established in the 1850s by our...
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PRESENT-DAY EGYPTIANS ARE GENETICALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS –...
One of the researches obtaining a sample from a jaw bone of one of the Egyptian mummies In 2017 an important study was published in Nature Communications under the title ‘Ancient Egyptian mummy...
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THE GENEALOGY OF ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI, EGYPT’S PRESENT PRESIDENT
Egypt’s current president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (b. 1954 and president since 2014) was born in Cairo. His family is from Monufia Governorate in Lower Egypt. What do we know of his genealogy? Are his...
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THE LARGEST MODERN COPTIC LIBRARY IN THE WORLD OPENS IN THE MONASTERY OF PISHOI
https://copticliterature.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/vid-20191124-wa0002.mp4 The largest Coptic library in the world, the Central Papal Library, has been opened in Wadi al-Natrun’s Saint Pishoy...
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EGYPT’S DICTATOR ARRESTS THE COPTIC HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST RAMY KAMIL
On Saturday 23rd November 2019, Egypt’s security services arrested the Coptic human rights activist, Ramy Kamil. He was taken from his home to an undisclosed location, his mobile and computer...
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WHY APPEALING BY THE COPTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS RIGHT, MORAL,...
Following the arrest of Ramy Kamil, the Coptic human rights activist on 23rd November 2019 by Egypt’s notorious security forces he was immediately accused in the social media by those accounts run by...
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WHY THE ARAB MUSLIM MAJORITY IN EGYPT DON’T WANT THE COPTS TO REFER TO...
THE COPTS ARE A NATIONAL MINORITY By Dioscorus Boles (On Coptic Nationalism, 8 December 2019) Content A. Why don’t the Arab Muslims of Egypt want us to claim a minority status? B. What is a minority?...
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GENERL YA’QUB THE COPT’S ELEGIAC POEM ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL DESAIX AT...
Plaster cast of Desaix’s bust by the Italian sculptor Angelo Pizzi (1775 – 1819) after his death mask General Desaix (Louis Charles Antoine Desaix [1768 – 1800]) was a Coptphile and appreciator of...
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MURAL OF SAINT SAMUEL OF KALAMOUN FROM 13th CENTURY: THE BEAUTY OF OLD COPTIC...
The 13th century mural at the Monastery of Saint Anthony at the Red Sea showing Saint Samuel of Kalamoun’s. Saint Samuel of Kalamoun (Qalmun) is one of the great Coptic saints. He lived in the seventh...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING COPTIC LANGUAGE BENCHMARKS BASED ON THE CEFR
In every major language there are standardised tests of the language proficiency for non-native speakers, i.e. learners who are learning the language as a foreign language. The English have been...
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WHAT CAN CHRISTIANS OUTSIDE OF EGYPT DO TO HELP (THE COPTS)?
Solidarity, acrylic on canvas painting by St Global Nomads Foundation, Netherlands (From Saatchi Art) A correspondent, Rosa Corazon de la Cruz, commented (See Comments: December 10, 2019 7) on our...
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THE COPTS ARE IN NEED OF GRADED READERS TO REVIVE THEIR LANGUAGE
In a previous article, The Importance of Developing Coptic Language Benchmarks Based on the CEFR, we talked about graded readers but not in detail. We learned how adopting the CEFR and adapting it in...
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UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE COMPLEX CONTEXT OF COPTIC LANGUAGE...
The Coptic language shift (CLS) requires reversal. This is what the overwhelming majority of the Copts want, as I understand it. And for this to happen, the Copts require a Coptic language...
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THE KIND OF DATE-PALM TREES OF THE EGYPTIAN DESERT ANCHORITES
A modern Coptic icon, showing Saint Onnophrius (Abba Nofr) in his cave with the date-palm tree outside and the loaf and jar of water brought to him by an angel every night In Coptic accounts of...
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