The Sectarian Incident That Won't Go Away
Date: March 5, 2010 Author(s): Mariz Tadros When violence breaks out between Egypt’s Muslim majority and Coptic Christian minority, the Egyptian government is normally quick to deny that the motive...
View ArticleFrosty Reception for US Religious Freedom Commission in Egypt
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View ArticleThe Emergence of a “Coptic Question” in Egypt
Date: April 28, 2006 Author(s): Issandr El Amrani In the early morning of April 14, 2006, Mahmoud Salah al-Din Abd al-Raziq, a Muslim, entered the church of Mar Girgis (Saint George) in Alexandria’s...
View ArticleBehind Egypt's Deep Red Lines
Date: October 13, 2010 Author(s): Mariz Tadros For six weeks, Egypt has been sitting on top of a sectarian volcano. Protesters, men and women, have been exiting mosques following prayers almost every...
View ArticleA State of Sectarian Denial
Date: January 11, 2011 Author(s): Mariz Tadros On the afternoon of January 6, a number of youths found a suspicious-looking cardboard box inside the Church of St. Antonious in the Upper Egyptian city...
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Sectarianism and Its Discontents in Post-Mubarak Egypt
MER259 Author(s): Mariz Tadros The complex Muslim-Christian relations of post-Mubarak Egypt are perhaps best glimpsed through five distinct reactions to the May 7, 2011 attacks on two churches in...
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Copts in the "Egyptian Fabric"
MER200 Author(s): Karim El-Gawhary To talk about Egyptian Christians as a “minority” is to open a can of worms. The sensitivity of the relationship between Egyptian Muslims and Christians was evident...
View ArticleEgypt's Bloody Sunday
Date: October 13, 2011 Author(s): Mariz Tadros At first, it looked like a repeat of the worst state brutality during the January 25 uprisings that unseated the ex-president of Egypt, Husni Mubarak: On...
View ArticleThe Subversive Power of Grief
Author(s): Paul SedraThe state-run funeral for the victims of the Butrusiyya Church massacre was a carefully organized, managed and controlled affair. Mourners without officially printed invitations...
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