Bread, which Egyptians call A’ish—Arabic for life—is part of a social contract in Egypt with the government providing affordable food, gasoline and electricity. “The government is very ...

Egyptians call bread aish, a word that in Arabic means “life.” It is only in Egypt that bread is alluded to in this way and where the more usual word of khobz is not so widely used despite its ...

Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.

For instance, John 6:4 introduces the feeding of the 5,000 within Passover, foreshadowing Jesus as the true Bread of Life whose ... Israel’s firstborn in Egypt. The imagery of Jesus as the ...

“When people ask why, we tell them it comes from our love of Jesus.” Soon after the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, aid to refugees began under the leadership of Hanna Maher, an Egyptian ...

The Gospel readings this week come from a passage in John’s Gospel called the “Bread of Life Discourse” (Jn 6:22-59). Jesus gave this lengthy sermon not long after he fed thousands of people ...

we explore a recently discovered ancient Egyptian text that claims Jesus had the ability to shapeshift. This shocking revelation could change the way we understand history, religion, and the life ...

And it's quite wonderful stuff. You have the staple of the ancient Egyptian life here, the bread, accompanied by the all-important onions and garlic. And this was a standard sort of workman's ...