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THE COPTIC SYNDROME OF TRYING TO FIND COPTIC ORIGIN TO ARAB WORDS: OUṬA I have previously spoken about a syndrome which I called a syndrome of trying to find a Coptic origin for words in Egyptian...
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YES, BLACK LIVES DO MATTER, NOT LESS THAN COPTIC LIVES IN EGYPT MATTER, BUT...
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) and Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) – a figure of love and a figure of hate The events in the United States cannot be ignored by anyone in the world for they do influence...
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COPTIC ORPHANS’ ONLINE SEMINAR ON HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD FROM SEXUAL ABUSE
Nermien Riad, Founder and Executive Director of Coptic Orphans COPTIC ORPHANS IS AN ORGANISATION TO BE PROUD OF Coptic Orphans is an international, Christian development organization committed to...
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THE GREAT WORK OF MARK N. SWANSON IN COPTOLOGY
Mark N. Swanson is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He teaches in the areas of Christian-Muslim studies and early/medieval church history, and directs the...
View ArticleWHERE DID THE ANTI-COPTIC ORIENTALIST GASTON WIET GET HIS FALSE ASSERSION...
In my article, “For God’s Sake, Where Does Gaston Wiet Get His “Very Accurate” Estimation That 92 Percent of The Current Egyptian Population Is of Coptic Origin?” (September 22, 2020), I questioned...
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THE TEXT OF GASTON WIET’S ARTICLE ON THE COPTS IN ISLAMIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA
The article on the Copts, “Kibṭ”, in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume II (Leiden, London, 1927), pp. 990-1003, written by the French Orientalist Gaston Wiet (1887 – 1971) is important. It is not...
View ArticleTHE FIRST LARGE STUDY ON THE COPTIC GENOME IS UNDER WAY! WE ARE SO DELIGHTED!
IT’S GREAT NEWS THAT, AT LAST, GENETICISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS ARE PAYING THE COPTIC GENOME THE IMPORTANCE IT DESERVES IN THE FIELD OF ANTHRO-GENETICS A large research study by a European institution...
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SHORT ORBITUARY: NABIL MIKHAIL MARKOS
The Coptologist, Nabil Mikhail Markos, who used to teach at the Institute of Higher Coptic Studies in Cairo has recently departed. Unfortunately, I have no much detail about his biography, and perhaps...
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THE FORTHCOMING LARGE STUDY ON THE COPTIC GENOME
In a previous article, The First Large Study on The Coptic Genome Is Under Way! We Are So Delighted! (October 6, 2020), we brought you the good tidings of the large study that focuses specifically on...
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EGYPTIAN ARCHEOLOGIST ZAHI HAWASS: A FALSE PHARAOH AND SHEIKH OF CULTURAL...
CLAIMING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ANESTRY WHEN YOU ARE NOT IS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF COPTIC IDENTITY In a previous article, The Genealogy of Zahi Hawass: Arab And Not from Ancient Egypt (November 13,...
View ArticleCAN ANY DEAD LANGUAGE FULLY RECORDED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND WITH A KNOWN...
Can any dead language fully recorded in the new testament and with a known phonology be revived? I mean even if it has no dictionaries or grammars published? Yes, I think so. One kind of such a...
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WHAT’S THE MEANING OF YOHANNA CHIFTICHI’S SURNME?
I have written about Yuhanna Chiftichi a few times. He was a Coptic priest who was born in the eighteenth century, and fought with the French against the Turks, Mamluks and Arabs during the French...
View ArticleTHE DIFFERENT WAYS COPTIC LANGUAGE DIED
The writer believes that the Coptic language is not dead except by the linguistic convention that a language is dead if it has ceased to be spoken in the daily life of the people. Coptic, is however,...
View ArticleFALSE EXCUSE FOR NOT LEARNING COPTIC
I recently had a conversation with some Copts. Here is how it went between me and another Copt, whom I shall keep his name confidential. I started the conversation. I: “Develop a new interest! Learn...
View ArticleTHE INADEQUACY OF THE COPTIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, ED. BY A. S. AZIZ
It was a great step when The Coptic Encyclopedia, edited by Aziz Suryal Atiya (1898 – 1988) was published in 1991 by Macmillan (published digitally now by the School of Religion, Claremont Graduate...
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LEARNING FROM THE WELSH NATIONALISTS
The Copts in their struggle for autonomy and the preservation of their culture and language can learn a lot from the Welsh nationalists. Reading about the history of Wales and its struggle for...
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WE PRAY FOR ETHIOPIA
A priest on his way to church in Tigray by Philip Lee Harvey Ethiopia is dear to the Coptic nation – our historical and religious links are strong and deep; and we cannot forget that, in our national...
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GERMANY CHARGES EGYPTIAN WITH SPYING FOR THE EGYPTIAN REGIME WHILE WORKING IN...
NEWS (AP, DW, Euro News)Monday, 16 November 2020. Today, the German Federal Public Prosecutor issued a statement (“Charges brought on suspicion of intelligence agent activity”, which the reader can...
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THE MWCCE ONLINE LECTURE SERIES ON MATERIAL AND WRITTEN CULTURE OF CHRISTIAN...
MWCCE is an Online Lecture Series (given the collective title of “Material and Written Culture of Christian Egypt”) jointly organized by the Göttingen Academy project Digital Edition and Translation...
View ArticleLNGUAGE IS AT THE HEART OF WELSH NATIONALISM, AND SO IT SHOULD BE AT THE...
I have written before about Welsh nationalism and how we can learn from it, and one of the important lessons that we can learn is the important of language in forming the consciousness of a nation....
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