The Copts were (and remain) so devoted to Michael that they established 12 feasts in his honor, one per month, to be observed ...

Recent widespread claims by the Afrocentric movement have been made regarding the African origins of ancient Egyptian ...

It has been thirteen years since the 2011 Revolution in Egypt toppled Hosni Mubarak. He had been at that point the president ...

The 'wine–press of love' was purged byArab nationalism: Jews, Greeks and Francophone cosmopolitans ceased to rub shoulders with Copts and colonial administrators andmystagoguesand double agents of ...

In a long dispute with Egyptian Copts, Ethiopian monks have occupied a rooftop monastery for more than 200 years to press their claim to a portion of the church. Photograph by Alessio Romenzi As ...

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