The Arabic Professor
A short story by Lydia Yousief
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June 25, 2018
The Collective Trauma of Coptic Suffering
I was in fourth grade. I was sitting in class, jittery with excitement, smile beaming from ear to ear. My grandmother had agreed to visit my class and talk to them about her migration from…
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May 15, 2018
Why Knowing Our Coptic History Matters
A few weeks ago during a dinner conversation with my wife, we contemplated what our 2 year old toddler would think of herself as she grows up. Would she think of herself culturally as an American,…
May 2, 2018
Mental Health and Cultural Competency: Barriers to Treatment for MENA Communities
As a psychotherapist who has practiced for the better part of a decade, I’ve seen and worked with a wide variety of patients. Working in Southern California (especially around the LA area) has given me the…
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April 5, 2018
A Prize Worthy of Commitment to Peace
Due to the milieu in which I work, I have been informed that the Copts of Egypt as a people have been nominated by a qualified nominator in the United States for the 2018 Nobel Peace…
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April 5, 2018
Female Genital Mutilaiton
Egypt’s Silent Humanitarian Crisis SourceThe ProblemWhen I told people that I was going to take on Female Genital Mutilation for the Coptic Voice, I got one of two responses:“What’s that?” and:“That’s not a problem for Copts; we…
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March 14, 2018
The Power of the Private Prison Industry
How the Supreme Court’s Ruling that undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and immigrants seeking asylum can be held indefinitely may end up hurting Copts. Source Martin Niemoller, an anti-Nazi Lutheran Pastor living in Germany during Hitler’s reign,…
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March 14, 2018
My Journey With the Cross
My life journey started from the day I was born…I was beautifully made by him, inside and out. But to say it has been an easy journey would be a lie. Instead, my journey has been…
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March 14, 2018
How Injustice Can Hurt Everyone (Even the Majority)
For many born and raised in America, it’s sometimes difficult to fully understand the rigid societal structure of oppression that goes on in Egypt. Although America has its fair share of systemic racism, this oppression has…
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March 14, 2018
9 Coptic Women Who Run the World
It may or may not come as a surprise to some people to find out that Egypt ranks in the bottom ten worldwide in gender equity. This means that, culturally, Egyptian women have “significantly lower participation in…
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March 14, 2018