[Download] "Mari Girgis and the Copts of Egypt: A Personal View" by American Diplomacy # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mari Girgis and the Copts of Egypt: A Personal View
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 14, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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Editor's Note: Sometimes reading a book can change your life. Bill Sommers during his assignments with the Agency for International Development always dug deeply into the history and culture of the countries where he was assigned. While in Egypt he bought a study of the village of Mari Girgis written by a French anthropologist and sociologist which also contained native songs and verses. Inspired by the book, Bill visited and re-visited Mari Girgis and found in his meetings with its villagers and chief priest "a rapport and understanding of life and its meaning" that he has never forgotten. Now, almost 20 years later, he has begun putting into a poetic format translations of songs and verses from the book. Two are printed below. Let's slow down a bit, and take a few moments to read and enjoy them.--Assoc Ed. Egypt is a country over which the storms of history have blown, again and again, until it has become a repository of both Eastern and Western history. One of the oldest civilizations via the Pharaonic ages that covered nearly 5000 years of recorded history, Egypt also was ruled by Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottoman Turks, Mamelukes, French, British, and finally by its own people--after the rise of Nasser. Each of those eras of dominance--long and short--has its monuments and, appropriately, its ruins throughout the land and in countless museums as well as fiercely held artifacts scattered throughout the whole of the known world!