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THE DEFEAT OF THE BYZANTINE TROOPS IN EGYPT BY THE ARABS IN AD 640 WAS NOT...
The four provinces (dioceses) of Egypt at the time of the Arab invasion[1] The Arab Conquest of Egypt in AD 639-642 is often presented as a miraculous achieved by a group of 4,000 Arab horsemen...
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BOUTROS BOULOS, IRAN’S CONSUL AGENT IN KHARTOUM IN 1882
Boutros Boulos, Consul Agent for Persia in Khartoum, 1882 In a previous article, I talked about Ibrahim Effendi Khalil, the Chief of the Coptic Colony (community) in Khartoum, Sudan, who featured in...
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WHAT HAS THE COPTIC SAWIRIS FAMILY DONE FOR THE COPTIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE?
The Sawiris Family: from left to right, father Onsi, Naguib, Samih and Nassif, the three brothers, in order of age The Sawiris family (Onsi Sawiris and his three sons: Naguib Sawiris, Samih Sawiris,...
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THE BOMBSHELL OF COPTIC STATISTICS
President Carter meets Pope Shenouda III at the White House, 20 April 1977 THE EGYPTIAN STATE DOES NOT WANT THE TRUE STATISTICS OF THE COPTS KNOWN – IT IS A WAY OF CONTROLLING THE COPTS The Arab,...
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HOW THE EGYPTIAN STATE SEES THE COPTS WHO PROMOTE THE COPTIC LANGUAGE AS...
Mu’awad Daoud Abdel-Nour (1921 – 2000) I have written before about the Coptic expert in Coptic language, Mu’awad Daoud Abdel-Nour (1921 – 2000), who is famous for writingDictionary of the Coptic...
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JUST WHO IS IN EGYPT MORE DEMOCRATIC THAN THE OTHER?
Who in Egypt is pro-democracy? The Islamists, as some have been claiming they are? Or those who do not want to see the Islamists in power? We can get the answer from a study conducted by Salih Yasun,...
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THE CATHOLICS WHO SEE THE COPTS AS HERETICS, WOULD THEY APPLY ADRIAN...
Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1874 – 1923) Adrian Fortescue (1874 – 1923) was a distinguished English scholar and a Catholic priest who led a saintly life. He descended from a line of distinguished men and...
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THE ANSWER TO EGYPT’S ISLAMIST THREAT IS NOT MILITARY RULE BUT DEMOCRACY
THE COPTIC NATIONALISTS ARE ESSENTIALLY DEMOCRAT The Islamists of Egypt, whether Muslim Brotherhood or any of the other Islamist parties, such as those under the banner of the Salafists, are a threat...
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COWARDICE AND HYPOCRISY KILL ONE’S CHRACTER: WE MUST RID OURSELVES OF THE SLIGHTEST TRACE OF THEM In the beginning of Muhammad Ali’s reign (1805 – 1848) and the patriarchate of Peter VII (1809 – 1852)...
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THE MIRACLE OF THE RISE OF THE NILE UPON THE PRAYERS OF PATRIARCH PETER VII...
The Khalij of Misr, which used to come off the Nile somewhere at Old Cairo (Misr), and irrigate Cairo (1873, Bibliothèque nationale de France) Miracles are factual occurrences for those who believe in...
View ArticleIT’S HAPPY COPTIC CROWNING OF THE YEAR, NOT HAPPY NAIRUZ
Today is 1 Thuth 1737 AM, and it is the Coptic New Year, the Coptic Crowning of the Year. I wish all my readers a very happy and blessed pi-iklom ente ti-rompi. Today is the first day of the first...
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THE GREAT WORK OF THE LATE BISHOP SAMUEL OF SHABIN AL-QANATIR
Bishop Samuel of Shabin al-Qanatir (1937 – 2003) One of our great bishops was Bishop Samuel of Shabin al-Qanatir (a town in Qalyubiyya Governorate, in the Nile Delta, just above Cairo). His parish...
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SEVEN YEARS AFTER PROMISING THE SETTING UP OF A MARITAL PREPARATION PROGRAMME...
Coptic wedding officiated by His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos of London COPTIC MARRIAGE IS NOT A SIMPLE CONTRACT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, BUT A TRIPARTITE UNION BETWEEN THE COUPLES AND GOD On 18...
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INTEGRATION, YES; ASSIMILATION AND THE DISSOLVING OF OUR IDENTITY, NO!
I have written about this before. But it still seems to some like new concepts; and some don’t understand what is discussed. It would help people to read about consociationalism and cultural autonomy,...
View ArticleLEARNING COPTIC GRAMMAR WILL NOT HELP MUCH IN LEARNING COPTIC – ONE HAS TO...
Coptic learners spend much time in studying Coptic grammar. It’s essential but will not make one learn Coptic. It will make him learn Coptic grammar, if he could remember it after a while. Learning a...
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WHAT BEING AN ARAB CHRISTIAN AMOUNTS TO?
Islamic art (Image from the Ninth Wave Studio blog) Those who advocates that we forget about our culture and identity, and identify ourselves as simply Christian citizens within the Egyptian state,...
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LIST OF COPTIC BISHOPS OF SUDAN IN THE MODERN AGE
The above hopefully will help us in the study of the fascinating history of the Copts in Sudan. _______________________ [1] Butrus VII [2] For this, see: Dioscorus Boles, The Scottish Explorer James...
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THE LAZY AND CAVALIER ATTITUDE WHEN IT COMES TO CHARACTERISE THE COPTS’...
George Eden Kirk (1911 – 1993) was a British Archaeologist who worked in the Middle East before World War II. Owing to his expert knowledge he was engaged during the war in top level intelligence...
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THE COPTIC EXODUS: A LIFELINE FOR THE COPTIC NATION
THE COPTIC CHURCH IS NOWV A WORLDWIDE CHURCH AND IT’S BOUND TO AFFECT THE FUTURE OF THE COPTS ENORMOUSLY Samuel Tadros, a Coptic Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom in the...
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FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHERE DOES GASTON WIET GET HIS “VERY ACCURATE” ESTIMATION...
Gaston Wiet (1887 – 1971) Gaston Wiet (1887 – 1971 was a famous French professor and Orientalist who worked at the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale of Cairo in 1909–1911. He was a professor...
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