About the Author

S.S. Hasan is an independent scholar and the author of Enemy in the Promised Land. She has reported on Israel and Egypt for The New York Times. A graduate of Harvard University, she was later an Associate of Harvard's Center of Middle Eastern Studies, where she completed the writing of this book.

Reviews

This is an impressive attempt to analyse relations between Copts and Muslims in modern Egypt and the author's personal probity and sincerity are evident throughout ... This is a challenging book and a necessary read for anyone who wishes to understand today's Coptic Church within the framework of Egyptian national life. The author has presented her material skillfully in order to support her thesis. The Glastonbury Review What makes this book so readable is the fascinating anecdotal and firsthand material based on Hasan's fieldwork ... With this volume, Hasan offers a detailed, and valuable, study of at least part of the modern Coptic ethos. Sobornost ... refreshingly different from studies written by partisan Christian researchers ... provides a penetrating and colourful account of how the revival in the Coptic Church happened ... an inspiring story that makes an enjoyable, as well as an informative, book. Church Times