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Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Coptsthe native Egyptian Christiansand their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from the crisis of modernity and the answers developed to address that crisis by the Egyptian state and intellectuals, as well as by the Coptic Church and laypeople.

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In Motherland Lost, his superb new book, Sam Tadros presents two stories, combined and intertwined, necessarily so but with no sacrifice of skill and elegance. One story is the history of the ancient Coptic Church from its origins in Egypt in the first century down to the present day. This important and noble story is regrettably little known in the West. With this book it should be no longer. The other story is the history of Egypt, especially the history of its encounter with modernity, which, as Tadros shows, cannot be understood apart from the fate of the Coptic Church. This fate has not been happy and is getting worse under the impact of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Though it belies the hopes invested in those events, it is indispensable to their interpretation for anyone seeking to understand the new Egypt.

HILLEL FRADKIN, Hudson Institute

Motherland Lost is a history written with sophisticationand with tears. Samuel Tadros tells the story of Egypts failed attempts at modernization in the last century and explains how even the movements that seemed liberal meant danger for Egypts Copts. From Nasser to Sadat to todays Muslim Brotherhood regime, the Copts have faced narrowing public spaceand todays Islamists threaten to force them into second-class status with a future Tadros describes as bleak. Today emigration is turning the Coptic Church, Tadros explains, into a global entity with hundreds of churches and schools around the world but threatening its survival where it emerged millennia agoas the Egyptian state, Islamists in power, and violent mobs combine to bring the future of Copts in Egypt into doubt. To understand Egypts past and the challenges that cloud its future, this book is essential.

ELLIOTT ABRAMS, Council on Foreign Relations

Samuel Tadros has written an essential history of an important subject. In crisp prose and with an eye for the interesting detail, he tells the remarkable and little-known history of a people and a church that have been integral to Egypt for two thousand years. Today, with the Copts in peril as almost never before in their own land, its critical that this story be understood. Were fortunate that Tadros explains it so well.

BRET STEPHENS,Wall Street Journal

Motherland Lost

The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity

Motherland Lost

The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity

HERBERT AND JANE DWIGHT WORKING GROUP ON ISLAMISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Many of the writings associated with this Working Group will be published by the Hoover Institution. Materials published to date, or in production, are listed below.

ESSAYS

Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape

Joshua Teitelbaum

Islamism and the Future of the Christians of the Middle East

Habib C. Malik

Syria through Jihadist Eyes: A Perfect Enemy

Nibras Kazimi

The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan

Ziad Haider

Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon

Marius Deeb

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Freedom or Terror: Europe Faces Jihad

Russell A. Berman

The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at Americas Relations with Iran

Abbas Milani

Torn Country: Turkey between Secularism and Islamism

Zeyno Baran

Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas: Lessons from Indonesia

John Hughes

The End of Modern History in the Middle East

Bernard Lewis

The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism

Charles Hill

Jihad in the Arabian Sea

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The Syrian Rebellion

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Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity

Samuel Tadros

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The Hoover Institution gratefully acknowledges

the following individuals and foundations

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HERBERT AND JANE DWIGHT WORKING GROUP ON ISLAMISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER:

Herbert and Jane Dwight

Beall Family Foundation

Stephen Bechtel Foundation

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton W. Frye Jr.

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To Laila:

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SERIES FOREWORD

F OR DECADES, THE THEMES of the Hoover Institution have revolved around the broad concerns of political and economic and individual freedom. The Cold War that engaged and challenged our nation during the twentieth century guided a good deal of Hoovers work, including its archival accumulation and research studies. The steady output of work on the communist world offers durable testimonies to that time, and struggle. But there is no repose from historys exertions, and no sooner had communism left the stage of history than a huge challenge arose in the broad lands of the Islamic world. A brief respite, and a meandering road, led from the fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9 in 1989 to 9/11. Hoovers project, the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, is our contribution to a deeper understanding of the struggle in the Islamic world between order and its nemesis, between Muslims keen to protect the rule of reason and the gains of modernity, and those determined to deny the Islamic world its place in the modern international order of states. The United States is deeply engaged, and dangerously exposed, in the Islamic world, and we see our working group as part and parcel of the ongoing confrontation with the radical Islamists who have declared war on the states in their midst, on American power and interests, and on the very order of the international state system.

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