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WHAT HAVE THE COPTS DONE TO HELP THE POOR ETHIOPIAN IN THEIR HUMANITARIAN...
WE MUST EXTEND A HAND OF HELP TO OUR ETHIOPIAN BRETHREN AT THE HOUR OF THEIR NEED Ethiopia is in civil war. The central Ethiopian government is at war with the Ethiopians in the Tigrayan region, and...
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COPTIC REVIEW OF THE DECEIT, AN ENGLISH NOVEL BY TOM KNOX: INTRODUCTION
Front cover of The Deceit I am not a fan of English novels, particularly modern ones. There are thousands of them in each bookstore, and I usually pass them without paying much attention. Since I had...
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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...
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THE MWCCE ONLINE LECTURE SERIES NO. 1: ALBERTO CAMPLANI – THE PATRIARCHAL...
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...
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THE MWCCE ONLINE LECTURE SERIES NO. 2: ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU – FORMS OF...
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...
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THE TERRIBLE BUT HEROIC DISTINCTION OF THE COPTS: BEING THE MOST REPEATEDLY...
Walter Frederic Adeney (London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co. Ltd., date unknown) The Copts are distinguished by a terrible but heroic reputation, and that is being the most repeatedly and...
View ArticleAGAIN, ON THE MEANING OF YOHANNA CHIFTICHI’S SURNAME
The last name, and its meaning, of the Coptic warrior-priest and scholar, Yohanna Chiftichi, has interested many from the time of the French Campaign in Egypt (1798 – 1801). Anouar Louca has written a...
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INDICTMENT OF EGYPT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: THE 2020 PEW REPORT
On 10 November 2020, Pew Research Center (a nonpartisan fact tank that inform the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world) published its 11th report on a series of...
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A STUDY ON THE DEMOCRATIC LEVEL AND LEVEL OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE 20...
In a previous article, Indictment of Egypt on Religious Freedom: The 2020 Pew Report, I presented the findings of the 2020 Pew (Pew Research Center) on the 2018 findings of government restriction on...
View ArticleIT’S THE DUTY OF EACH AND EVERY COPT TO RESIST ARABISATION AND ISLAMISATION...
The Copts must resist assimilation to the culture of Muslim and Arabic majority in Egypt. That means they must resist the following three processes: ISLAMISATION (الأسلمة):the process whereby a Coptic...
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CONVERTING COPTIC PSALM NUMBERS TO WESTERN PSALM NUMBERS
The Coptic Psalms do not carry the same numbers as the Psalm numbers in the prevalent modern Western Psalm versions, with a usual offset of 1. This can sometime lead to confusion. The Coptic Psalm...
View ArticleIN HIS ANTI-CHRISTIAN CAMPAIGN, THE FATIMID CALIPH AL-HAKIM WAS NOT A MAD MAN...
The third Fatimid Caliph, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 996 – 1021) is known for his persecution of the Christians under his realm, particularly the Copts, a persecution that was manifested in the...
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THE COPT IN THE ARABIAN THOUSAND NIGHTS AND NIGHT
INTRODUCTION The Arabian Nights (or The Thousand and One Nights, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a composite Arabic literature work that forms a collection of various stories from many cultures,...
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JOSHUA FISHMAN’S EIGHT-STEP MODEL FOR REVIVING THREATENED OR DEAD LANGUAGES...
Joshua Fishman (1926 – 2015) Joshua Fishman (1926-2015) was a world-renowned linguist and a scholar of Yiddish. He wrote almost one hundred books and over a thousand articles. One of his important...
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TODAY IS THE COPTIC LANGUAGE DAY, LET ALL COPTS TAKE A SOLEMN DECISION ON IT...
Today, 8 Koyahk, the 17th of December, is the Coptic Language Day, which falls on the feast day of St. Samuel of Kalamoun feast day, who decried the abandonment of our beautiful Coptic language and...
View ArticleA COPTIC MODEL FOR THE REVIVAL OF THE COPTIC LANGUAGE
The following is a suggested Coptic model for the revival of the Coptic language, based with adaptation on Joshua Fishman’s model for the revival of threatened languages. I have written about it...
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THE GREAT BISHOP GREGORIUS’ BRAVE CONTRIBUTION AT THE 1971 EGYPTIAN...
The great Bishop Gregorius (1919 – 2001) INTRODUCTION: THE CONTEXT President Nasser dies28 September 1970President Sadat inaugurated15 October 1970Pope Kyrillos VI dies9 March 1971Bishop Antonius,...
View ArticleTHE IMPORTANCE OF FORMULAIC LANGUAGE IN MINIMAL COPTIC LEARNING
As we try to revive our language, we use different strategies and models. The simplest of these, which will give the learner some grasp of the language is the formulaic approach, where one word or...
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C. WILFRED GRIGGS CONTRIBUTION TO COPTOILOGY
C. Wilfred Griggs C. Wilfred Griggs is a modern archaeologist, Egyptologist, Coptologist and a scholar of early Christian and Latter-day Saint history (he is a Latter-day Saint). He contributed to the...
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THE EGYPTIAN CLASSIFICATION OF THE RACES OF MAN
Reginald Stuart Poole (1832 – 1895) Reginald Stuart Poole (1832 – 1895), also known as Stuart Poole, was a famous English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He came from the famous Orientalist family...
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