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How does a contender for being elected President of his country, which is a democracy, run for office when the law restricts his running? That is the issue facing one of Egypt’s greatest sons. His approach is to remain visible to the citizenry but not to campaign openly. Corazon Aquino did this in The Philippines [...]

It is a very exciting time for Egyptologists, as the old, controversial dates are either finally confirmed or reassigned more accurately in regards to the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms.

The land of Egypt is actually 97% desert. Only about 5% of the land is conducive to human occupation and no more than 4% is arable, that is, suitable for agriculture. The population densities along the Nile River and its tributaries surpass 1,000 people per square km. The Nile River is the only source of [...]

A great deal of research is being carried out in Egypt, and I have reported a number of fascinating discoveries already this year. Another team working since 1989, French this time, has made a new find in the el-Shawaf area of South Saqqara, by unearthing the last resting place of a Queen estimated to be [...]

The latest hearing in the trial of the five men accused of murdering three Christians in Malatya, Eastern Turkey was held on 15 April 2010. In mid April 2007 three Christian men, Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel and Tilmann Geske, were murdered while working at the Zirve Christian Publishing and Bible Distribution Company. Five local men [...]

In ancient times perfumes and incense were as beloved as they are today, but were also used extensively in pharaonic temple ritual. In his work ‘Isis and Osiris’ the historian Plutarch commented that the Egyptian priests burned incense three times a day: frankincense at dawn, myrrh at mid-day, and kyphi at dusk. He reported that [...]

Morocco is situated at the top of the African continent close to Europe. It has both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines, and a rugged mountainous interior. Culturally it has a rich culture developed from Arab, Berber, European, and African influences.

Maher Gohary is a new Christian convert from a Muslim background currently engaged in a long legal battle to change his state-issued religious registration from his old status of ‘Muslim’ to reflect his new status as a ‘Christian’. This will allow Mr Gohary and his family to be identified accurately, which is very important in conducting one’s day-to-day business in Egypt.

On Friday the 19th of March 2010 hundreds of local Coptic Christians and supporters from many other Christian churches came together to pray for the safety of Christians in Egypt. Orderly crowds carrying crosses, signs and candles filled Martin Place to hear the dignitaries and choirs, and to join their hearts together in prayer, as a sincere plea for public recognition of the humanitarian disaster that is befalling their people in Egypt.

Over one hundred and twenty-five years ago some unknown party smuggled out a 3000-year-old coffin they most likely obtained from excavations in the Egyptian Pharaohs’ tombs. The wooden sarcophagus was plastered and painted in an elaborate fashion, and covered with images and religious inscriptions that were later deciphered and understood to be instructions to aid the soul of the deceased on its journey through the afterlife.