and tragedy is so profound that that alone would have merited a deep history by a historian like sam tadros. but sam goes further than that because he also frames his narrative in terms of copt versus copt, a brutally honest portrayal of the internal divisions, lady versus clergy, pope versus bishops, hermits versus church administration, rich versus poor, accommodationist versus communalist, etc. sam bears it all. he bares the external history of tragedy and persecution as well as the internal tensions which have been at the heart of the coptic story for almost two millennia. it is, at some points, a tale of intrigue among popes and metropolitans and monasteries and conferences, but it is a story of texture and depth, and it is a remarkable story that sam portrays in all its dimensions. and i think it's really quite a courageous story for doing that. sam's book, secondly, is courageous in another way. he takes on the pillars of accepted wisdom about egyptian history; albert hur ranny, for example, and he skewers them with delicacy and precision and subtlety. the target, first and foremost

and tragedy is so profound that that alone would have merited a deep history by historian like sam tadros. sam goes further than that. he also frames his narrative in terms of continue versus continue. a brutally honest portrayal of the internal divisions lady versus clergy. pope versus bishop. rich versus poor. accommodationist versus communalist, et. cetera. sam bears it all. he bears the external history of tragedy and persecution, as well as the internal tensions which have been at the heart of the continuic story for almost two ma less than yum -- it was a tail of entry among pope of metropolitan. but it is a story of texture and depth. it is a remarkable story that sam portrays in all dimension. i think it's a courageous story for doing that. sam's book secondly, is courageous in another way. he takes on the pillar of accepted -- albert, for example, and he rescues them with delicate sincerity and precision and subtlety. the target, first and foremost, is the conventional idea of egypt's liberal age. now there's an awful lot ofs no one piece, for example, concerns the idea of a gold