Paris, le15.03.05 Dear friends, It does not have there, in Egypt, a religious problem but a cultural and purely cultural problem. Taha Hossein (1889-1973) said that the conflict is not between Christianity and Islam, nor between the East and the Occident but between the movement and inertia. The fight, with my direction, is actually between Egyptian civilization and "ignorance Bedouin", to borrow, once again, the expression of the writer Salaheddine Mohsen. It is absolutely and completely inaccurate of saying that only Coptes considérent the Arabs as the invaders of Egypt because it is also the attitude of the large Moslem free thinkers, such Hossein Fawzi, author of the excellent work, Sindbad Egyptien, Edition Dar Al Maaref, 1969; of Taha Hossein, v. its book, Future of the culture in Egypt, Tawfiq El Hakim (1898-1987), which deplored that Egypt became a servant with pledge for the Arab countries, the v. file published in Al Fikr Al Arabi, sept.1978; and especially of the Egyptian giant Khalil Abdel Krim (1930-2002) who, like already known as in this forum, fustigates the Arabs who ransacked, devastated, trampled Egypt and changed its language and its Il culture had been opposed to the commemoration of the Arab invasion in an article published in the newspaper of left Al Yassar of October 1997, p.44. Yes, the Arabs invaded Egypt, read the contemporary historians, such Madam Professeure Sayyada Ismail Kachef, Egypt, at the dawn of Islam, 3rd edition, 1986. See especially the Chronicle of Jean de Nikiou, contemporary of the Arab invasion of Egypt into 640 (this Chronicle is even translated into Arabic). See also the large Moslem chroniclers, such Ibn Hakam (803-871) and Makrizi (1364-1442). Not only the Arabs invaded Egypt but colonized it, v. Makrizi, Al Bayyan Wa Al Irab Ama Bi Ard Mesr men Al Irab. I have in my possession the Arab text published by the German Wüstenfeld, Göttingen, 1847, under the title, El-Macrizi' S Abhandlung über die in Aegypten eingewanderten arabischen Stämme. On the Arab tribes which broke on Egypt during centuries, to see the well documented studies of Abdallah Khorchid Al Berri published in 1993 and those of Mohammed Soleyman Al Tayyeb, Encyclopédie of the Arab Tribes, 1991. The Arabs continue to colonize Egypt since they still treat the Egyptians like the winners with overcome as the obvious denial of justice with respect to (the anti-copte pogrom testifies some to El Kocheh (1999-2000 Good cordially. Magdi Sami ZAKI to be followed