When the first wave of Coptic immigrants began emigrating from Egypt in the 1960’s, few could have imagined that only a generation later, millions of Copts would reside outside Egypt across the globe. With hundreds of…
The evening of February 24th was undoubtedly a big night for American Coptic Egyptians. Rami Malek, a Coptic Egyptian from the San Fernando Valley, won the Oscar for “Best Actor” for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury…
Recently, I have come face-to-face with my early quarter-life crisis. I started asking myself questions like “Who am I,” “Why am I here” and “What is my purpose.” I felt perplexed for a long time, unable…
When I first decided to write this article, I was excited to finally write about how hard it is to be a young female Copt facing the pressure of marriage expectations. However, as I began researching and interviewing, I realized this article is not so much where I vent about the pressure but more to explain why that pressure exists.
Being a therapist, the word “suicide” is a regular in my vocabulary; and yet, despite its common occurrence, it’s still a word filled with much fear, unease, apprehension and mystery. Psychologists can tell you nowadays the…
Behind the facade of Hollywood glamour, Coptic Orthodox Christian journalists covering entertainment are trapped in a silent struggle. These minority journalists fight a battle between their conservative religious principles and their profession covering a highly sexualized…
This piece is meant to give voices to admittedly fringe ideas in our community. It aims to highlight the danger of individual voices, as opposed to a more collective voice from the silent Coptic majority in…
Who we are The Coptic Canadian History Project (CCHP) is a not-for-profit public history and community outreach organization. It serves as a forum to bridge the gap between public archives, immigrant communities, and academic scholars, and…
What I’m about to say is going to shock you: there isn’t a single fiction book written by a Copt in the history of the English-speaking Coptic Diaspora that has been published traditionally. That’s right: not…
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