A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule

“With Egypt’s Copts targeted as part of a bloody and systematic campaign of genocide against the ancient churches of the Middle East, Adel Guindy has produced a timely and authoritative account of their story. It deserves to be widely read.”

— Professor Lord Alton, Professor of Citizenship at Liverpool John Moores University

Adel Guindy has authored three books in Arabic and numerous articles in Arabic, English and French about Coptic issues, current affairs and political transformations in the Middle East in general, Egypt in particular, and Islamism. He provided expert input to Ph.D. theses, including in Germany and France. He was co-founder and first president (2010-2015) of Coptic Solidarity, a leading US-based advocacy group. In this capacity, he has given Congressional testimony. He served as the international senior editor (2003-2011) of Watani, the leading Cairo-based Coptic weekly newspaper.He has had a long management career with a large multinational company in the energy technology sector, with over three decades' career in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Far East.

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Pearl Butcher

Be prepared for a thought provoking read. In this well researched book the author's gift of describing people, events and the land in which they take place are evident. "I, Jandemarra" transports the reader to outback Australia, to the lifestyle, the culture of the local inhabitants and the impact the coming of the early white settlers has on the indigenous people. Be prepared to be a little uncomfortable as with hindsight you may, like me, realise how different life could have been.

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