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The Making of the Vindolanda Wooden Writing Tablets: A Noninvasive Multianalytical Protocol for the Characterisation of Black Roman Inks

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Within the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
Giovanna Vasco   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lived place, embodied remembering, and narrative belonging in Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House and Pauline Kaldas's “A House in Old Cairo”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House (2000) and Pauline Kaldas's “The House in Old Cairo” (2006) allow a comparative analysis on place dynamics and the psycho‐spatial aspects of subjectivity and belonging. This article builds on the premise that place has an ontological implication for its occupants as it allocates a portion of space for them ...
Daniella Krisztán
wiley   +1 more source

Euzebiusz z Heraklei i jego "Homilia efeska" (CPG 6143) z etiopskiej antologii patrystycznej Qerellos

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2012
Classical oriental literatures, especially in Syriac, Arabic and Coptic lan­guages, constitute extraordinary treasury for patristic studies. Apart from the texts written originally in their ecclesiastical ambient, the oriental ancient manuscripts ...
Rafał Zarzeczny
doaj   +1 more source

Contact-Induced Language Change of Egyptian-Coptic

open access: yesarbeitstitel | Forum für Leipziger Promovierende, 2012
The DDGLC project, started in April 2010, intends to address a major lacuna in Coptic studies by providing a systematic description and analysis of attested loanwords. The phonological, morphological, semantic and stylistic/ rhetorical aspects of these borrowings are to be studied, for all classes of loanwords, and for all dialectal and subdialectal ...
Naether, Franziska   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
wiley   +1 more source

Coptic Scriptorium Data Release V4.4.0

open access: yes, 2022
Final archival release of Coptic Scriptorium data from the NEH funded DHAG grant “A Linked Digital Environment for Coptic Studies: Integrating Heterogeneous Data with Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing” (HAA-261271-18).

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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined ...
Maxim Kupreyev
doaj   +1 more source

Racial/Ethnic Identification and Impacts of Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination for Communities of Arab, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Descent

open access: yesSocial and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Although many believe that discrimination and racism against Arabs and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities started after the events of 9/11, prejudice and discrimination toward this group was documented as early as the 1900s.
Germine H. Awad   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Commodification of Waste in Cairo, Egypt: Capital, Colonial Sanitation, and Value's Mobile Frontier

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1639-1662, September 2025.
Abstract Dominant narratives of Cairo's waste challenges frame the issue as a consequence of overpopulation and unsanitary behaviour, advocating for technocratic solutions led by global private firms and technological innovation. These narratives, however, obscure the commodification of waste and the colonial discourses that justify waste's ...
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
wiley   +1 more source

The Transition from Coptic to Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The process in which the last stage of the Egyptian language, Coptic, was replaced by Arabic, has not yet received much attention from scholars. When the Arabs conquered Egypt in the middle of the seventh century, Coptic was the vernacular language of ...
Rubenson, Samuel
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