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- Monks in Egypt’s Lawless Sinai Hope to Preserve an Ancient Library
Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert and the local Jabaliya Bedouins worked together to protect the monastery when the 2011 revolution thrust Egypt into a period of uncertainty. “There was a period in the early days of the Arab Spring when we had no idea what was going to happen,” says Father Justin, a monk who has ...
July 22, 2013 - Time.com via Yahoo! News - Anne Patterson’s Plight
A conspiracy theory afoot in Egypt right now holds that Barack Obama may soon be impeached, having been caught sending $8 billion to the now-toppled Muslim Brotherhood government in exchange for Israel’s annexation of much of the Sinai desert. Never mind that Muslim Brotherhood is furious at Obama for refusing to call the Egyptian military’s toppling of president Mohamed Morsi a coup. In Egypt ...
July 18, 2013 - Swampland