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This weekend, Amira Mikhail will be speaking at the first Coptic Voice summit on the methods and importance of evidence and data collection of sectarian violence against religious minorities in Egypt.

Read the second piece of a series on Coptic Associations and Parishes by Mina Ibrahim:

"While the first ‘elitist’ association, the Lay Council, mirrored Western/European values of charity and development, newer associations focused on providing assistance to impoverished Copts, as well as contributing to the ‘revival’ of Coptic civilization, heritage, and language. Indeed, the importance of the ‘revival’ was a result of European encounters as well. However, the stakeholders of this revival held a separate agenda that tried to promote a ‘distinctive’ Coptic culture that could be differentiated both from a ‘foreign’ version of Christianity and from a predominantly Islamized Egyptian state and society."

On Coptic Associations & Parishes: Overlapping Routes to a Christian Space in Egypt (Part 2) As I wrote in the first part to this essay series, the tram workers who established St. George parish, the second parish in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo, were successful because of the legal rights that were guaranteed by the 1923 constitution in Egypt. In breaking from a classist environment

Read Eshhad's latest quarterly trend report from April to June 2017.

This quarter, 81 people were killed in sectarian violence compared to 15 deaths the previous quarter; the highest recorded during any quarter since Eshhad began documenting.

Read more for other notable trends.

Eshhad Quarterly Trend Report: April - June 2017 - Eshhad إشهد