The Copts in Twenty Centuries: A Short History - Paperback
The Copts in Twenty Centuries: A Short History - Paperback
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by Elham Khalil (Author)
How did the Islamization of Egypt happen?In less than 170 years, after the Arab conquest in 641, Egypt did change from being an Egyptian speaking and Christian country, into Arabic speaking and predominantly Islamic one.How did this happen?For almost one thousand years Egypt experienced the rule of the Greeks, the Romans and the Byzantines, yet the Egyptians did not change neither their language nor their religion.Egypt was a Christian nation for nine centuries.What did happen to Egypt after the e Arab conquest? How did the Arab and other Islamic rulers established in Damascus, Baghdad and Istanbul treated the Egyptians, the Copts?Here is one extremely harsh reality of two thousand years of prosecution, harassment, discrimination, subjection, and segregation.
Author Biography
Elham Khalil, communication and media specialist and academic, writes about social issues and cultural problems in short story and drama literary form, and on the Coptic church, culture and history. She studied at Cairo, Amsterdam and Oxford universities, graduated in policy making of international communication, literature and drama. Worked in broadcasting and media filed for many years. She has various publications on Amazon both in English and Dutch.
