A place for the Copts: imagined territory and spatial conflict in Egypt,
Author: Mark Purcell
Publisher/Publication: Ecumene
Volume/Issue: 5(4)
DOI/ISBN: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44252318
This article studies the relationship between the Coptic community, the Egyptian territory and its history as factors which define its identity. Indeed, the author argues that the connection with space drives the Coptic community to retain their roots and to abstain from leaving their country. To that effect, the national imagination of the Egyptian citizen is constructed through the different ideas of the nation and its territory, from which legimitacy originates. As such, the party in power is the one which forges its narrative for Egyptian identity to different results for the Coptic community, ranging from marginalization to inclusiveness.
