The third recent domestic war, this one over Christian Coptic citizenship rights, has been brewing for years. Copts are the original Egyptians, and they were the majority population until the tenth century.
不久前爆发的第三次内战涉及信奉基督教的科普特人的公民权，这次内战已经酝酿了几个年头。科普特人是埃及土著，十世纪以前一直是这里的主要人口。但随着埃及日益阿拉伯化和伊斯兰化，科普特人在他们原来的土地上慢慢变成了少数民族。