While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

If we exclude the sources of the Blue Nile, ultimately a work of nature, the most important and striking monument in Ethiopia ...

The historical area centers around Saint Menas, who died in the early days of Christianity and is buried at the site that was inscribed in 1979 on the list of globally treasured natural and cultural s ...

Its storied holdings include Coptic crosses, manuscripts from Malcolm X, papers of Langston Hughes and sculpture by Augusta Savage. On the evening of the first Wednesday in May, Harlem’s ...

Coptic crosses and ornate sheesha (hookahs). Finally, it is Friday. The whole of Cairo comes to a pious stop at midday. Every shop closes and the pavements are filled with men prostrate on carpets ...

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His 2004 book, “Coptic Grammar,” revolutionized the study of the language ... a platform for anyone at Yale working on ancient Mediterranean-related projects to present their work to a ...

On the narrow street, many women just like Bamy are sorting through sacks while sitting cross-legged on the pavement ... I visit their local church, the Coptic Church of the Virgin Mary, known ...

The Devotion portion, meanwhile, presents visitors with undeniably chic examples of religious metalsmithing in a trio of gorgeously rendered Ethiopian Coptic crosses. Just behind them Nari Ward ...

CAIRO — In Egypt, it’s very common to find cross tattoos on the wrists of Coptic Christians, who are 12% to 15% of Egypt’s population. Such a tattoo symbolizes a long history of bloody persecution and ...

"In Egypt, they used to do little Christian tattoos like the Coptic cross on the wrist as a way of Christians marking themselves for Jesus," Wassim told me. Their business has existed in many ...

Working for MedAir – a partner to UNHCR, the UN refugee agency – Medhn and Azmera’s team is building tukuls in Tunaydbah, each with shoulder-high stone walls and thick weather-proof thatch, some even ...