Tag: Candace Lukasik
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Human Rights and Persecution Economies
by Candace Lukasik | Ελληνικά Earlier this year, I published a short piece with Anthropology News on Coptic Christian persecution in Egypt, American power, and racism in the United States. I then received a barrage of social media criticism claiming that I overemphasized racism against Copts in the US, and in so doing eschewed focus […]
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ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΑ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΔΙΩΓΜΩΝ
Candace Lukasik Νωρίτερα φέτος, δημοσίευσα ένα σύντομο άρθρο στο Anthropology News σχετικά με τις διώξεις των Κοπτών Χριστιανών στην Αίγυπτο, την Αμερικανική εξουσία και τον ρατσισμό στις Η.Π.Α. Έπειτα, έλαβα μια σειρά από κριτικά σχόλια στα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, τα οποία ισχυρίζονταν ότι απέδιδα υπερβολική έμφαση στον ρατσισμό κατά των Κοπτών στις Η.Π.Α, αποφεύγοντας να […]
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Debating Christmas Day: Copts, Calendars, and the Immigrants’ Church
by Michael Akladios and Candace Lukasik This essay is co-published with the Coptic Canadian History Project. A longer version is available on the CCHP website. On December 11, 2019, Metropolitan Serapion and the clergy of the Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii wrote a statement pronouncing that Christmas celebrations will be held in […]
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Rami Malek and Contentions of Coptic Identity
by Candace Lukasik On Sunday February 24, Rami Malek won the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. In his acceptance speech, Malek spoke of his Egyptian heritage and its representative power: “We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life just unapologetically himself. […]
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Modernity, Murder, and Coptic Identity
by Candace Lukasik On July 29, 2018, one of the most beloved bishops and scholars in the Coptic world, Bishop Epiphanius, was found murdered outside of his cell at the St. Macarius monastery. He was on his way to Midnight Prayer when he was assaulted and struck in the back of the head. While the […]