Digital diasporas and governance in semi-authoritarian states: the case of the Egyptian CoptsThis article draws upon research initiated under the first phase of the research programme Digital Diasporas, Identity and International Policy Processes (DIP2) for which the author was co-principal investigator with Lori A. Brainard. The author would like to acknowledge the Center for the Study of Globalization at The George Washington University for its generous funding of the initial phase of this ongoing research programme, and to thank Thomas Bryer, Andrew Edelson, Sarah Epps, Tara Hill and Aliza Inbal Belman for their helpful research assistance.