Sara Allam Survives the Minefield

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The authors of the books know that there is a kind of book called necessity books, which are indispensable, and that writing and writing is "urgent," which we say to ourselves after reading "had to be done". Epiphanus "by poet and writer Sarah Allam, whose second edition of Dar Al Ain was recently published.

I read the book eagerly, and admit that it was completely new, and all the knowledge that came in it, I was not aware of it, here is a whole world that goes behind the monasteries and behind the windows of the churches I see only his shadow, and I thought that the churches are obscured by the high walls and many walls, And I think that the monasteries prevent us from them after the distances and the hardships of travel and retire the people of the world, but Sarah Allam, who is in her area of ​​expertise and landed her land well tell me the truth, tell me that behind these buildings people like us some succeeded in spiritual experience and some failed, some have vision and thought and some have Interest feared.

The book, professionally, came out of a crime heard by everyone in one of the most famous monasteries in Egypt, and perhaps in the world, the monastery of Anba Abu Makar in Wadi El Natroun. They found Abba Epifanus, the Abbot, dead on the 29th of July 2018, I remember that strange morning, when the news spread, then I looked for Sarah Allam to ask her, this is her area where she worked hard and made a real impression.

"The murderer is a pure thief, because the violence is made by fear," said Sarah Allam. "The murderer is a monk, and this violence is made by hatred."

I said: Where does hatred come from the clerics who worship God in his deserts and have declared their own death when they chose the wire of monasticism? The most important episodes were those between Pope Shenouda, the patriarch of the prehistoric Church of Alexandria, and the late Mati the poor, who in 2006 was the head of the monastery. Abu Makar, where the crime occurred recently, but more than the head of the monastery, was a teacher.

Sarah Allam looked out of the window of the crime to take us on a difficult journey to two different schools thinking of the Egyptian Church, each one of her men. The former Pope tried to impose his word on the monastery.

The book brings us deeper, saying that the monasticism needs to be re-set. It is a bit out of the way, and some have become a place to live, or an idea that came to their minds one day. The Bible tells us that monasticism has a great "interest" They get a lot of benefit from it.

Apart from the internal conflicts in the book, we will read a section entitled "From the Book of Blood and Ashes" in which a human monitor is a little sad. It can not be said that it is only Christian sorrows, but it is Egyptian before and after, a chapter that serves as a source of beautiful things in our present life.

Of course, one article can not cover an important book such as "Crime Papers 805 .. The Death of Abba Epiphanos", but the reference is enough. The book is packed with information and booming. It is a heavy task like "trying to walk a minefield, As described by Sarah Allam, who managed to pass that field safely, while we still think "surprised".