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August 22, 2022

The Disaster at an Egyptian Church Is a Symptom of Systemic Persecution—and a Country in Decline

Egypt kicked out Jews, Italians, and Greeks in the 1950s and continues to persecute Copts today.

Although Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been subject to numerous violent attacks by Islamist groups in recent years, it remains unclear whether the recent fire at a church outside Cairo was the result of arson or merely an accident. Samuel Tadros argues, however, that the conflagration—which left 41 dead, including eighteen children—was in either case a consequence of discriminatory legislation, and of Egypt’s disfunction more broadly.

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