A Sword Over the Nile

by Adel Guindy

Overview

Adel Guindy has produced a timely and authoritative account of the Copts' story. It deserves to be widely read... this timely and excellent book will act as a wakeup call.... It reminds us that historically, the Copts have been Egypt's beating heart and that Egypt's future, without them, would be bleak indeed. PROFESSOR LORD ALTON, MEMBER OF THE BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS A Sword Over the Nile is a most welcome book and contribution to the existing literature. Here in one volume, we have the largely unknown historical experiences of Egypt's Coptic Christians under Islam--and from the most primary if previously inaccessible or untranslated sources. Not only is it a window to the past; it may be an ominous look to the future. RAYMOND IBRAHIM, AN EXPERT ON ISLAMIC DOCTRINE
AND HISTORY, IS AUTHOR OF SWORD AND SCIMITAR:
FOURTEEN CENTURIES OF WAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WES

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643787602
Publisher:	Austin Macauley
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	902,744
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Adel Guindy is author of three books in Arabic and numerous articles in Arabic, English, and French about Coptic issues, current affairs in Egypt and Middle East, political transformation in Egypt, and Islamism. He provided expert input to Ph.D. theses, including in Germany and France. He is the co-founder and first president (2010-2015) of Coptic Solidarity, the leading US-based advocacy group for Copts, and its affiliate in France. In his capacity, he gave Congressional testimony. He was the international senior editor (2003-2011) of Watani, the Cairo-based leading Coptic weekly newspaper. Previously, he had over three decades management career with a large multinational company in the Energy technology sector, spanning the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Far East.