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...gathering later this month. The bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote-rigging in last November's parliamentary elections - an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement...
...rather, see the 31-page papyrus tractate. Provocatively titled The Gospel of Judas, the alleged Coptic Egyptian translation of a 2nd century manuscript promises to be a kind of Da Vinci Code--style everything-you-know-is-wrong thrill ride. According to its holders, the text will be unveiled this spring for the first time in at least 1,500 years. If your Coptic is rusty, there will be an official translation, and a National Geographic TV special in late April, they say. (Geographic declines comment.) You'll have eminent co-viewers: scholarly interest reaches up to the Vatican...
...then, much later, dug up again. Robinson reports that a leather-bound codex containing the alleged 5th century Coptic version was excavated in Egypt and emerged on the antiquities market in 1983 at a price of $3 million. It was badly damaged and apparently at one point had been torn in half. It is now possessed by a group called the Maecenas Foundation, and in 2004 a Coptic expert named Rodolphe Kasser announced that he was reassembling and translating it. "There are huge holes in it, unfortunately," says Mario Roberty, Maecenas' director. "But I'm astonished at how successful scientists...
...flight into Egypt." In one version, dragons along the Nile bend their knee to the baby, and palm trees bow to offer dates. Another features a robber who will turn out to be the "good thief" crucified with Jesus. The flight made Joseph an early favorite of the Egyptian Coptic Church, which mapped a detailed itinerary reaching as far north as Dimyana, near the Mediterranean, and south far past the pyramids down to Deir al-Muharraq. The Coptic History of Joseph the Carpenter provided one of the first descriptions of his death, at age 111, attended by Mary...
Sawiris is no bootstrap entrepreneur. He comes from a wealthy Coptic Christian family. His father Onsi made his fortune in Egypt in the 1950s in the construction industry but then lost it all when President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the business in the early '60s. After living in Libya, the family moved back to Egypt a decade later. There Sawiris Sr. built his fortune anew. He has since divided his empire among his three sons: Naguib, the eldest, took telecommunications; Nassef, the youngest, runs the construction business; and Samih, the middle brother, has a tourism and travel company...