Magdi Guirguis
EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2012-14
A Socio-Economic History of Coptic Monasteries in Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt (15th - 18th Centuries)
Previous Fellowships: 2012/ 2013, 2007/ 2008, 2006/ 2007
Magdi Guirguis received his PhD from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University. Currently he is teaching at Kafr El-Sheikh University. Guirguis has published widely in Arabic in the field of Social History. Among his publications in English are: An Armenian Artist in Ottoman Egypt: Yuhanna al-Armani and His Coptic Icons, The American University in Cairo Press, 2008; (co-author with Nelly Van doorn-Harder), The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy, in the series The Popes of Egypt, editors: Stephen Davis and Gawdat Gabra, The American University in Cairo Press, volume III, 2011.
Guirguis was a EUME Fellow from 2006 to 2007. From October 2012 to spring 2014 he is a Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, as well as of EUME.
2012-2014
A Socio-Economic History of Coptic Monasteries in Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt (15th - 18th Centuries)
In Berlin, Magdi Guirguis will work on his project “A Socio-Economic History of Coptic Monasteries in Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt (15th - 18th Centuries)”.
2007/ 2008
Copts and the West during the 18th Century
In Berlin Guirguis will continue working on a project on the Copts and the West during the 18th Century.
2006/ 2007
The Copts and the West in the Ottoman Period (1517–1798)
In Berlin, Guirguis will concentrate his research on The Copts and the West in the Ottoman Period (1517–1798).
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