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ON THE INTERFERENCE IN COPTIC FAMILY STATUS BY THE EGYPTIAN STATE
In 1955 President Nasser inaugurated the Family Status Law 462, by which he intended to limit Coptic autonomy and introduce unified family status law that was based on the opinion of the majority...
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BEAUTIFUL COPTIC TUNIC FROM AROUND THE ARAB INVASION OF EGYPT
The above Coptic wool tunic with tapestry weave (154 cm high 104.1 cm wide) is kept at the Metropolitan Museum, New York City. It dates from the 6th-7th century around the time of the Arab occupation...
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COPTIC PAIR OF SHOES
In the A&V (Albert and Victoria) Museum in London, one can find this beautiful pair of shoes in the Medieval and Renaissance, room 8, case 14. It dates from ca. 300-500 AD and was made in Akhmim,...
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LOVELY COPTIC CHILD TUNIC WITH A HOOD
I present this lovely hooded child tunic from Coptic Egypt which is dated from 430–620 AD which is kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Its medium is weave in purple-coloured, red-brown,...
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COPTIC NATIONALISM AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR THE COPTS
Coptic horseman. Coptic textile at Berlin Bode Museum. When On Coptic Nationalism was launched back in 2011, we stated that Coptic nationalism works for the cultural revival of our nation. We...
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THE CIVIL CONDUCT OF THE SCOTLAND INDEPENDENCE DEBATE
No one can argue, despite its few problems, that the UK is a civilised country and can compete on that matter with any other country in the world. Just follow the conduct of the debate and the whole...
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ONE USELESS STATEMENT ON THE COPTIC SITUATION
Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder has written a chapter titled ‘Copts: Fully Egyptian, but for a Tattoo?‘ in Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies (Ed. Maya Shatzmiller; McGill-Queen’s...
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A BRAVE AND STRONG COPTIC MOTHER DEFIES THE EGYPTIAN STATE: NOT WITHOUT MY...
The brave Coptic woman, Om Marina (Mother of Marina), and her daughter, Marina An article from Coptic Orphans[1] by Amal Morcos (May 2012)[2] The interrogation had been going for six hours. The...
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THE BIZARRE WAY COPTS ABANDONED THE SWEET WORDS ‘ISOUS’ AND ‘MARIA’
In a previous article, I have written of a serious encroachment of Arabisation on the Coptic name of God: Ephnuti[i] (or Abnouda[ii]). As Copts got Arabised in the Middle Period of their history[iii],...
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INVADING OUR SACRED SPACE – ARABISATION OF OUR MONASTERIES
In a previous article, I criticised the way the name of the Monastery of Saint Anthony at the Red Sea is displayed, in Arabic (in the largest fonts), and then English, and then Coptic; and I said:...
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WHAT IS CULTURE AND WHAT IS COPTIC CULTURE?
What is culture in general? To be able to answer this title’s question, one has to be acquainted first with the definition of culture in general. What is culture? The definition of culture is often...
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THE COPTIC SHLILISTS AND SHLOLISTS
I would like to introduce two coined words into Coptic national debate: Shlilists and Shlolists, and one can drive from them further words to describe the ideology behind each group, Shlilism and...
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REASONS FOR LEARNING COPTIC LANGUAGE
Coptic is studied for different reasons. Westernern scholars study Coptic because they are by large interested in Egyptology and Classic Antiquity; and for this reason they show more interest in...
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The Hyperglot Blog — Coptic: Wanted Dead or Alive!
http://hyperglot.me/post/2988268373/coptic-wanted-dead-or-alive
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Coptic – Living or Dead? | Cambridge Library Collection Blog
http://cambridgelibrarycollection.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/coptic-%E2%80%93-living-or-dead/
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AT LAST: “COPTIC NOTES” – iOS APP FOR iPHONE AND iPAD
Wael Saad, a Copt as you may have noticed, has developed an advanced Coptic writing system, called Coptic Notes, for the iPhone and iPad. It is currently supported by iOS7 only; not iOS8, but he is...
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JASON ZABOROWSKI: COPTIC IS NEITHER DEAD NOR A LOST LANGUAGE
In a previous article, I argued that the Coptic language is not dead. It’s hurting that several lazy scholars have written about the language shift from Coptic to Arabic in medieval Egypt and described...
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THE COPTIC CONCEPT OF MARTYRDOM MUST NOT BE CONTAMINATED BY ISLAM
Martyrdom of Saint Maurice by Gustave Courtois (1852-1923) Martyrdom in Christianity has specific meaning that is based on Christ. He told his followers: And the brother shall deliver up the brother...
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A BEUTIFULLY SIMPLE COPTIC ICON OF ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FROM THE 17TH CENTURY
Archangel Michael Conquering the Devil, Coptic icon from 7th century, Athens Byzantine Museum I would like to introduce to my readers this Coptic icon from the 17th century, Archangel Michael, from the...
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THE COPTIC SYNAXARIUM PUBLISHE BY RÈNE BASSET AS SYNAXAIRE ARABE-JACOBITE IN...
Réne Basset (1848-1924) I have spoken about the Coptic Synaxarium in different places (search under Coptic Synaxarium). Here, I just would like to put up links to the Coptic Synaxarium, extant in...
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