Date of source: Friday, June 23, 2017
Her father was accused of betraying ʿUrābī and his revolution, and that he was a reason for facilitating the British to enter Egypt. She was also shocked by the death of her brother, who was the one who understood her most, despite her young age. When she was a child, she was forced to marry...
Date of source: Friday, June 23, 2017
The statements by Pope Tuwāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, about the Arab Spring yesterday, in which he described it as destructive, were not the first of their kind. He has always been keen to make controversial statements that have polarized the Egyptian...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
The Coptic Orthodox Church on Saturday commemorates the return of St. Mark the Apostle’s remains to Pope Cyril VI.
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
TV show “Lasaʿāt” hosted Dr. Rev Augustine (Ughasṭīnyūs) Maurice, pastor of the The Holy Family Church in al-Zaytūn to present his book A Historical View of the Coptic Catholic Community in Egypt (rū’ya tārīkhiyya li-ṭā’ifat al-aqbāṭ al-kāthūlīk fī miṣr).
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
Perhaps the main reason for the fall of the Ayyubid state was the internal turmoil and the collapse of the economy within Egypt in the late days of King al-Ṣāliḥ Nijm al-Dīn Ayūb. Moreover, the arrival of the seventh French campaign in Egypt in late 1249 AD.
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
The birth of Dr. Mīlād Ḥannā in Shubrā neighbourhood has had a great impact on him, like all of the sons of the ancient Egyptian neighbourhood, Christians and Muslims [alike].
Date of source: Friday, June 23, 2017
The worst thing a cleric can do is to confound religion with politics, or to use religion to serve politics, especially in a context of tension and anger. The cleric has the duty to keep himself distant from politics and spread the culture of peace instead, by keeping people away from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Today marks the anniversary of the prominent author Iḥsān ʿAbd al-Qudūs’ death on January 11th, 1990. ʿAbd al-Qudūs is responsible for the most famous stories in Egyptian cinema. In the following, we offer some words on his live… his upbringing? His relationship with women? His family? And how was...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Al-Sādāt is the primary person responsible for planting and sponsoring the roots of discrimination in Egypt, but Mubārak is responsible for preserving al-Sādāt’s formula for maintaining religious and sectarian tensions in the country and manipulating them politically.
Date of source: Monday, January 9, 2017
There is sort of an agreement between Egyptian authors and thinkers that what occurs in Egypt with respect to Copts can not be described as persecution. There is a degree of disagreement after that regarding the accurate description of the current reality. There are those that see discrimination...