Two hundred years after the birth of Christ, a middle aged man held a lecture in Alexandria, Egypt. His voice echoed through the lecture hall, “There is but one river of truth, with many streams falling…
We are the first generation of Coptic youth in the land of immigration. In our parents' eyes, we have all the necessary tools at our disposal to be happy and successful. And yet, we still find…
As a Middle Eastern Studies major and now master’s student, my world has been constructed around vacuums—that is to say, Islam exists only as Islam, Coptic Orthodoxy exists only as Coptic Orthodoxy, or nations like Egypt…
Six ways to survive the 10-hour Good Friday service with your little kids Good Friday is almost here! I personally don't feel the joy of the Feast of the Resurrection until I live through the holy…
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…