depicted frontally, looking straight at the viewer. Today, Coptic icons are found not only in churches, but also in homes and praying altars. They may also be purchased from Coptic gift shops throughout Egypt and the Coptic diaspora.

During the papacy of Pope Cyril VI, the emergence of Coptic painters like Isaac Fanous Youssef, along with the revival of Coptic art, brought about the creation of the Contemporary or Neo-Coptic school of iconography.

In 1952, architect and coptic Christian Ramses Wissa Wassef founded the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in Giza, Egypt. He asked 14 children, mostly copts, to develop a new artform by reviving the ancient coptic weaving method. The coptic weaver Maryam Hermina (born 1932) taught the children the technique. The Art Centre has a significant museum ofdisproportionately affected African-Americans: 85 percent of offenders sentenced under the law have been African-American, and 5 percent white.

Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, an organization advocating criminal justice reform, said the crack offenders selected for release were treated unfairly under the old sentencing law and deserve a second chance.

"In most of these cases, they've been locked up for 10 years or more," he said. "Ten years is a very long time, and they're not the same people they were 10 years ago."

Facebook didn't exist when Askia was sent to federal prison for crack possession after being convicted along with members of a Baltimore gang linked to several deaths, including that of Northern High School's star quarterback, Rocco Colavito Cash, who prosecutors said was mistaken for a