Whose Imaginary? Coptic Intellectuals and the Question of Subjectivity

By Ismail Fayed This is a repost with kind permission of the author and the NO NIIN Magazine, in which the article was originally published in April 2025. You can find the original article here. Part of this research, especially on Louis Awad, was presented in the Berliner Seminar at the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2023. The collapse of the Assad regime and HTS’s rise in Syria have revived debates in Egypt and the region, over the fragile status of religious minorities, particularly Copt...