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CHARGING THE COPTIC ACTIVIST RAMY KAMIL OF JOINING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD...
Like the Mamelukes, ruling with the rod, and friends of no one In a previous article, I talked about the arrest of the Coptic human rights activist, Ramy Kamil, in the early hours of 23 November 2019,...
View ArticlePOPE SHENOUDA III ANSWERS A QUESTION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COPTIC...
Listen to the first part from 0.0 to 0.5 (in Arabic) Pope Shenouda III (1971 – 2012) was probably the closest Coptic patriarch to his people, always teaching and answering questions from the people....
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COPTIC NATIONAL DAY FOR THE COPTIC LANGUAGE: 18 DECEMBER 2019 AD (8 KOYAHK...
This year’s Coptic national day for the Coptic language, which falls on the same day of the Feast of St. Samuel of Kalamoun (8 Koyahk) whom we regard as the Coptic language patron saint for his the...
View ArticleA DASHING YOUNG COPT
A dashing young Copt, Mounting his bridled dark horse, Galloped into the eastern arid desert, Fully armoured in weaponry that shone, To meet his invading enemy head on. Alone he charged undeterred,...
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COURAGE IS NOT SIMPLY ONE OF THE VIRTUES, BUT THE FORM OF EVERY VIRTUE AT THE...
It is C. S. Lewis (1898 – 22 1963) who said, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” And he is absolutely right. At the base of every virtue lies...
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COURAGE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR, BUT THE TRIUMPH OVER IT
Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) has famously said, “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that...
View ArticleA GROUP OF COWARD MEN CANNOT BUILD A CITY LET ALONE DEFEND IT
Let us imagine a group of coward Copts, and not all Copts are cowards, overwhelmed with fear, and their cowardice being driven by selfishness and begetting passivity, these three, cowardice,...
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SAINT ANTHONY THE GREAT ASKS THE BIG QUESTIONS, AND LIKE ALL WHO HAVE ASKED...
The ever occurring questions that pose themselves to the human mind about the human situations we find bizarre occurred too to the mind of the Egyptian, St. Anthony the Greet (c. 251–356): about the...
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PATRIARCH MICHAEL I ON THE DEATH OF INFANTS: “GOD TAKES THE INFANTS WHO ARE...
Death Crowning Innocence by the British painter, George Frederic Watts (1886–7) Patriarch Michael/Khail I (743 – 767) is one of the greatest patriarchs of the Coptic Church. None of the patriarchs...
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO CHAMPOLLION’S COPTIC DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR?
From early years, Jean-François Champollion (1790 – 1832) showed interest in Oriental languages. In 1802, at the age of twelve years, he started his formal education at the Abbé Dussert School and...
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DOM RAPHAEL DE MONACHIS
The Coronation of Napoleon, painting (10 by 6 metres) kept at the Louvre in Paris, by Jacques-Louis David, depicting the coronation of Napoleon I at Notre-Dame de Paris in 1803. David finished it in...
View ArticleWHY I WRITE IN MY BLOG?
A correspondent told me, as if I don’t know, that many Coptoligists and other scholars, such as Sociologists and Linguists, follow my blog; that some of my articles are worth publishing in scientific...
View ArticleTYRANNY MUST BE FOUGHT EVEN IF ONLY TO PREVENT THE DISFIGUREMENT OF THE...
Tyranny must be fought for many reasons, but one of the fundamental reasons for fighting it is because it disfigures the characters of those who experience the tyranny if tyranny continued for a...
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CHRIST IS BORN! IN TRUTH HE IS BORN!
Nativity icon from the Monastery of Saint Catherine (7th century) On 28 Koyahk, the Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate the Birth of Christ (Christmas). I wish all readers and followers a happy and...
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FIND HERE JEAN-FRANÇOIS CHAMPOLLION’S COPTIC DICTIONARY & COPTIC GRAMMAR!
A page from Champollion’s grammaire copte and one of his drawings in the manuscripts I wrote previously asking: What has happened to Champollion’s Coptic dictionary and grammar? (31 December 2019). I...
View ArticleTHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN EGYPTIAN NATION
A Coptic nationalist – that’s a Copt who believes that the Copts constitute a nation – believes that Egypt is not a nation-state (a state whose citizens belong to one nation) but a multinational...
View ArticleJOURNALISM: EGYPT AND TURKEY ARE LIKE TWO HARLOTS FIGHTING OVER CHASTITY
The latest spat between Turkey and Egypt was about the Egyptian security forces raid on the office of the Turkish news agency, Anadolu, in Cairo, on 14 January 2020, and arresting four journalists....
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THE EXCELLENT WORK OF COPTIC NEOLOGISM BY NABIL SABRI ISHAAK
The Coptic researcher, Nabil Sabri Ishaak, has published an excellent book, Coptic Neologism (نيولوجسمات اللغة القبطية), in Arabic in 2018.I have said in an earlier article that Coptic revival...
View ArticleO POPES, BISHOPS AND PRIESTS
O popes, bishops and priests,Of our beloved Church,How much I wish you would allow me to address you simply as ‘My father’,Not with the many inflated titles of late,And you respond with the endearing,...
View ArticleARABIC CANNOT BE SAID TO BE THE COPTS’ MOTHER TONGUE
A mother tongue as in the Oxford English Dictionary is the language one has grown up speaking from early childhood. In other definition it is the language one learns at the knees of his mother. So,...
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