SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

Patriarchs and entering results on a computer. She loved traveling out of curiosity about other people and places. Her health deteriorated during the last few years, but her faith and courage were triumphant. On the phone, she spoke with me about her longing for the heavenly home and to meet the Creator more closely. She is now there. Farewell, dear mother.

I was blessed to know the Atiyas around 1967 when my brother, Dr. Youssef Saad, was preparing his Ph.D. under Dr. Atiya’s supervision. During the 1990s, I had the privilege of visiting Mrs. Atiya many times in her home in Salt Lake City and in her office at the University of Utah. There, I felt her warmth, modesty, graciousness, faith, and scholarship. I watched her, at age 77, doing research on History of the 1. Newsletter: Due to rising cost postage costs, it was decided to discontinue mailing the courtesy copy of our non-subscriber edition, beginning with January issue. Members and subscribers will be receiving the regular subscriber edition of the Newsletter which has expanded to 20 pages. Please keep your membership/subscription current to make sure that there will be no interruption in the delivery. Thanks for your support. 2. Eighth International Congress for Coptic Studies: The International Organization of Coptic Studies has recently published the first announcement for the 8 th International Coptic Congress sent by Drs. Anne Boud'hors and Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya as follows: The Organizing Committee, presided over by Michel Tardieu, Professor at the Collège de France, would like to invite you to the Eighth International Congress of Coptic Studies, which will be held in Paris from 28 June to 3 July 2004 under the sponsorship of the International Association for Coptic Studies. The Congress will be successively held at the Institute of Art and Archeology of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, 3 rue Michelet, 75006 (28 June - 1 July [Monday to Thursday]) and at the Catholic Institute of Paris, 21 rue d'Assas, 75006 (2-3 July [Friday and Saturday]). During the first five days, the proceedings will be arranged as follows: 

News (by Hany N. Takla)

locating your work within one of the following thematic areas:

a. Materials and production: a theme seeking to bring together, with respect to technical and/or socio-economic considerations, the work of the archeologists on the one hand, and of the papyrologists and specialists in texts on the other. b. Texts and images: a proposal for shifting the boundaries between art historians and specialists in literature. c. In addition, there will be a session devoted to the Copts in the modern and contemporary periods (historical and socio- logical aspects).

For all short papers, an abstract must be provided in advance. Because the number of participants may well be very large, we ask that you carefully observe all deadlines. There will be no workshops. However, if any working groups would like to take advantage of the time before or after the Congress to hold a meeting, we would be able to offer rooms for their use, providing that we are given sufficient advance notice. The Congress will conclude with the Business Meeting of the IACS on the morning of 3 July.

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter Plenary sessions during which invited speakers will report on developments in the principle areas of Coptic studies since the last Congress. There will be 15 reports in all, which will be given in the mornings of the first four days.  To the extent possible, we will try to house all the participants who so choose in a single hotel, in a location where it is easy to reach the Congress facilities by metro or by bus. This will be a two-star (**) Ibis hotel, costing approximately 70 euros per night.

You will find up-to-date information about the organization of the Congress at the website of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes You are invited to pre-register for the Congress now by returning the form that is downloadable from the IRHT web page. It is also included with the forthcoming issue of the

Short papers (approximately 20 minutes long) presented in two or three parallel sessions, grouped according to the different branches of the discipline. Nevertheless, in some sessions we would like to try to "expand the horizons" of these fields of study somewhat, and therefore we ask you to consider

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