SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

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+ Prof. Martin Krause (Germany): The Importance of al-Fayyum for Coptic Studies + Prof. C. Wilfred Griggs (USA): The Christian Cemetery Near Seila + Dr. Peter Grossmann (Germany): Church Architecture in al-Fayyum + Prof. Rodolphe Kasser (Switzerland): The Dialect(s) in the Region of al-Fayyum + Dr. Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert (Poland), Glass from Naqlun + Prof. Claudia Nauerth (Germany): Textiles from al- Fayyum + Dr. Ewa Parandowska (Poland): The Preservation of the Wall Paintings of the Church of the Archangel Gabriel + Dr. Siegfried Richter(Germany): The Coptic Manichaean Library from Madinet Madi at al- Fayyum + Dr. Marie-Helene Rutschowscaya (France): Is There a Relationship between the Coptic Icons and the Fayyum Portraits? + Dr. Prof Rushdi Said (USA/Egypt): The Geology of al-Fayyum + Dr. Sofia Schaten(Germany): Christian Funerary Stelae from al-Fayyum + Prof. Mark Swanson (USA): Arabic Sources on the Monasteries of al-Fayyum + Dr. Jacques van der Vliet (The Netherlands): Coptic Inscriptions from al-Fayyum + Prof. Ewa Wipszycka (Poland): The Hermitages of Naqlun . + Dr. Youhanna Nessim Youssef (Australia/Egypt): St Abraam, Bishop of al-Fayyum (1829-1919) 15. New Excavation Project at Wadi al-Natrun: In a recent communication with Dr. Youhanna N. Youssef of Melbourne Australia, he relayed to us the activities of the team that traveled to Egypt during the month of September. In there he indicated that the team was prevented from digging in the appointed site because of a military camp in the area. Despite the recommendations of the Wadi al-Natrun symposium, that camp was in the middle of the ancient site of the monastery of John Kame and of several manshopis. Also the manshopi of Begig was occupied by a military camp. The conditions seen as expressed by Dr. Youssef were 'systematical destruction of the coptic monuments'. The monastery of Severus in Assiut was found to have became a military camp and the church there was destroyed. This makes the inscriptions published by W.E. Crum to be the only

for organizing the second symposium, dealing with the Christian monuments of the Fayoum Oasis, South of Cairo. This is scheduled for early February of 2004. Dr. Gawdat Gabra is coordinating the scholarly issues pertaining to this symposium. Comments, suggestions, and lifetime membership information can be directed to the following address: Dr. F. G. Estafanous 21106 South Woodland Road Shaker Heights, OH 44122 Tel: (216) 921-4748, Fax: (216) 921-3637 e-mail: jestodad@aol.com Website: www.stmarkfoundation.coptic-history.org 14. Christianity in al-Fayoum Symposium: The Second Coptic Studies Symposium to be held in Egypt will deal with the subject of Christianity in Al- Fayoum. The preliminary list of the participants has been compiled by Dr. Gawdat Gabra on behalf of St. Mark Foundation and our Society. The list includes scholars from ten different countries and it will be hosted by Bishop Abraam of al-Fayoum on behalf of the Patriarchate. The list will undoubtedly be trimmed down due to prior commitment of some of these perspective participants. The following are the names and the proposed area of study: + Bishop Abraam (Egypt): Christianity Today at al- Fayyum + Dr. Anthony Alcock (England): St. Samuel of Qalamun + Dr. Elizabeth Bolman (USA): The Importance of the Wall Paintings of the Church of Archangel Gabriel for the Coptic Art in the Fatimid Period + Dr. Ann Boud-Hors (France): Corpus of Coptic Fayyumic Texts + Dr. Ramez W. Boutros (Egypt): Christianity at Um al-Burigat + Dr. Barbara Czaja (Poland): Textiles from Naqlun + Prof. Leo Depuydt (Belgium/USA): The Library of the Monastery of the Archangel Michael (Hamuli) + Prof. Tomasz Derda (Poland): (Christian) Greek Texts from al-Fayyum + Prof. Adel Farid (Egypt): (to be announced) + Dr. Christian Gaubert/Dr. Michel Mouton (France): Archive of Girga + Prof. Wlodzimierz Godlewski (Poland): The Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel in al-Fayyum + Dr. Tomasz Gecki (Poland), Pottery from Naqlun + Dr. Susana Hodak(Germany): Notes on Decorative Elements in the Region of al-Fayyum

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