Ancient Egypt was closely connected with other parts of the world, bringing in and exporting goods, religions, food, people and ideas. At times ancient Egypt ruled territory outside the modern-day ...

CAIRO — In Egypt, there is seemingly no place where atheists or those thought to be nonbelievers are safe. They’ve been targeted at cafes, harassed on the streets and fired as part of a ...

But Egypt is somewhere, all right; it contains a couple of general stores and filling stations and 100 citizens as civic-minded and world-aware as just about any in the U.S.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.” Ziedan is taking great risk in espousing such an outlook in this society.

Egyptian secularism is not about the separation of church and state. It is most decisively about the state dominating, controlling and leveraging religion.

The Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion . Oxford University Press, USA, $39.95 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-19-515401-6 ...