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Mashriq & MahjarThe focus of scholarly studies and literary works on Egyptian Copts as a persecuted or a faith community has diverted attention from seeing them as active agents who challenge hegemonic powers within the complex overlapping of national and religious ...
Nevine Abraham
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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC STUDY OF THE QUBBET EL-HAWA COPTIC CHURCH (ASWAN, EGYPT) [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 This paper presents the method applied and the results obtained in the photogrammetric study of the Qubbet el-Hawa Coptic Church. After several archaeological interventions, the ruins of this church were completely uncovered of sand.
A. T. Mozas-Calvache +3 more
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XX.—On the Coptic Churches of Old Cairo [PDF]
Archaeologia, 1885 The site of El-Fustât, or Old Cairo, lies about a mile and a half from the modern city, on the plain between the Nile and the Mokattam hills.With the exception of the Coptic churches and monasteries little of it now remains, and its site is covered by great heaps of rubbish full of fragments of pottery of various dates.The Coptic churches are grouped ...
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
History, Volume 110, Issue 391, Page 326-345, June 2025.Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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The Revival of St Menas Veneration in the Twentieth-Century Egypt
Vox PatrumIn antiquity, St Menas was highly revered throughout the Christian world and attracted large numbers of pilgrims to the pilgrimage centre of Abū Mīnā. In twentieth-century Egypt, however, this saint became a figure of limited recognition in the Coptic ...
Hiroko Miyokawa
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Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones
Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2025.ABSTRACT This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions.
Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi‐Barak
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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Using Multispectral Imaging for Studying Two Coptic Icons from St. Demiana Church, Boulaq, Cairo, Egypt [PDF]
المجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریةRecently, modern non-invasive digital imaging techniques for documentation and studying the painted artifacts in general and Coptic icons, in particular, enabled professional experts to study new artistic schools with discrimination of the original ...
Randa Hanna +3 more
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 27-54, February 2025.ABSTRACT When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper‐middle‐class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising.
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
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Color analysis of ancient Egyptian paintings and its applications in modern digital visualization
Color Research &Application, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 4-24, January/February 2025.Abstract This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color collection of ancient Egyptian painting colors for color matching of modern digital images.
Qiaoling Zeng
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