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During his rambling, four-hour speech Sadat talked at length about strife between Egypt's 2.5 million Coptic Christian minority and Muslim fundamentalists, which has grown more strident with the rise of Islamic militancy. He announced a ban on ecclesiastical groups that "seek to spread political dissension," an obvious reference to Islamic demonstrations against both the peace treaty with Israel and the presence in Egypt of the former Shah of Iran. He assured the Copts that they had nothing to fear. Said Sadat: "Our Islam is not [the Ayatullah] Khomeini's Islam. Khomeini's revolution...
...Cairo some days ago, an Egyptian bank clerk asked a foreign customer what the weather was like in Israel; the clerk and her friends are planning a spring vacation there. Easter should be particularly busy. Many of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians intend to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which is their most holy city. Huge numbers of Israelis are eager to see the pyramids, which some think their forefathers built (historians are doubtful...
...centuries scholarship ranked first and sales a poor second. A Coptic Bible published in 1716 admittedly appealed to a very select audience-primarily theologians. Only 500 copies were run off, and the last did not sell until 1907, a patient 191 years later. Then there was Muller's Certain Variations in the Vocal Organs of the Passeres that have Hitherto Escaped Notice, which Charles Darwin persuaded the press to print in 1878. Fortunately, Darwin was not a publishing executive. In 25 years only 21 volumes were sold...
...brink of disaster. The board put Carr on leave until May 1979, when his term officially expires. This week Carr becomes a research fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and in the next academic year a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. His interim replacement: Egyptian Coptic Layman Sarwat G. Shehata, 39, a quiet management expert, who is already at work mending the many fences that Carr shattered...
...Syrian from a Jordanian, or either from a Lebanese. But an Egyptian stands out. His Arabic accent is different, and his speech is peppered with odd words, some dating from the pharaohs, some borrowed from visiting?or conquering?Europeans. Although Egypt is a predominantly Muslim land with a large Coptic minority, its customs differ from those of its Islamic neighbors. In Saudi Arabia, for example, tombs are unmarked, and the dead are quickly forgotten. Cemeteries in Egypt not only have tombs but houses as well, so that the living can spend holidays with their family dead. The Semitic Arabs dote...