#Coptic

Got that ancestral GLOW! Now that I have your attention, HAPPY #CopticNewYear and #Nairouz to all my Egyptian friends and family! In #Coptic we say “Nofri rombi emwari!”Here’s a thread
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Long thread head: Proud of my cousin/little sister/om el banat @NardineSaad for her brave, levelheaded @latimes piece on the recent sexual harassment scandals that has rocked the Coptic Orthodox Church.
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A dorky thread on a random Coptic text that makes me go "HUH, Latter-day Saints":Some dude Tim copied a text that we call "The Discourse on Abbaton" in this
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#Thread#Egypt court acquitted 3 Muslim men accused of stripping naked an elderly #Coptic Christian woman & parading her through the streets of a village in southern Egypt in 2016The news
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Ethiopian bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth.They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez.How come no one talks about the Ethiopian
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Two days ago I was asked why Copts support Trump. Well, the obvious answer is because they agree with his policies. Of course, which policies and why deserve some elaboration.
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As an Egyptian American, I am constantly finding myself unable to fit or feel comfortable with the racialized definitions given by the colonizers. Even the term Middle-eastern bugs me. Middle
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The ancient holidays and traditions that modern Egyptians still celebrate and follow [Thread] Shum Ansim: Egyptians celebrate Sham El-Nessim Day, which has roots that extend into the depths of history,
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Ethiopian bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth.They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian
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Stories of #Copts around the world never ceases to amaze me. This thread is about Latif Makram, a #Coptic man survived #Nazi concentration camp #Buchenwald https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/buchenwald Latif Tewfik Makram was
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Amplifying again for US profs: It’s super kind that so many are offering to do in-person classes if it saves intl students. *However*, we were talking to an immigration lawyer
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An important phase in the development of the Egyptian scripts before Coptic for #NationalWritingDay2020: dealing with Greek words in demotic.Here's an example from 192 CE from Narmouthis (Medinet Madi)Thread. Demotic
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I agree with everything you said up until the point where you just want them to go crazy and suffer.As Christians (and yes I know religion has no say in
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Christian manuscripts from the Middle East, usually written in Arabic, Syriac, or Coptic, are influenced by Islamic styles but have unique characteristics. -jm These first two are from Syriac traditions,
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(A thread) the ruse of victimhood is embedded in its template based analysis. Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, the culture of martyrdom among many religious and national groups have become so powerful in
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Long before Christoph Luxenberg, medieval Muslim authorities compiled lists of foreign vocabularies in the Quran. The Quran contains words from Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Turkic, Nabatean, Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and
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