As a professor of anthropology in the United States, I often begin my college lectures on Islamic culture by asking students to write three adjectives to describe Arabs. Most responses include the word terrorists, an association they see and hear in the media.

"Charlatan," "heretic," and "traitor" are but a few words that have been used to describe rebel priest Maximus I, who has decided to break away from the Egyptian Coptic Church under Pope Shenuda III and form his own alternative church.

American Jews sympathetic to Israel dominate key positions in all areas of [the U.S.] government where decisions are made regarding the Middle East. This being the case, is there any hope of ever changing U.S.

Saraya made the announcement following a January 12 visit to Al Kosheh, the scene of the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in Egypt in more than two decades. Although Fr.