Gawdat Gabra is the former director of the Coptic Museum and the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on the history and culture of Egyptian Christianity, including The Treasures of Coptic Art (AUC Press, 2006) and The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo (AUC Press, 2011). He is currently visiting professor of Coptic studies at Claremont Graduate University, California. Hany Takla

Language and Literature Coptic Ostraca from Hagr Edfu Anke Ilona Blöbaum Imagining Macedonius, the First Bishop of Philae James E. Goehring Apa Hidra in Difnar Nashaat Mekhaiel Christianity on Philae Samuel Moawad The Indexing of Manuscripts of the Monastery of the Great Saint Pachomius in Edfu Fr. Angeleous el-Naqlouny Beginnings of Christianity in Nubia Siegfried G. Richter A Foreshadowing of the Desert Spirituality in Ancient Nubia and Upper Egypt Ashraf Alexandre Sadek Contested Frontiers: Southern Egypt and Northern Nubia, AD 300-1500: The Evidence of the Inscriptions Jacques van der Vliet The Veneration of the Saints in Aswan and Nubia Youhanna Nessim Youssef Art, Archaeology and material Culture Dayr al-Kubbaniya: Review of the Documentation on the 'Isisberg' Monastery Renate Dekker The Development of the Church at Dayr Anba Hadra: A Study of the Plasterwork and Dated Inscriptions Renate Dekker An Updated Plan of the Church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa Renate Dekker The Christian Wall Paintings from the Temple of Isis at Aswan Revisited Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Gertrud J.M. van Loon The Monastic Life in Makuria W Christian Aswan in the Modern Era and the History of Its Cathedral Metropolitan Hidra The Word and the Flesh Karel C. Innemée The Ascension Scene in the Apse of the Church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawwa: A Comparative Study Mary Kupelian The Nubian Marble Object Preserved in Dayr al-Surian in Wadi al-Natrun Bishop Martyros The Digital 3D Virtual Reconstruction of the Monastic Church Qubbat al-Hawa Howard Middleton-Jones Coptic Objects in the Aswan and Nubia Museums Atif Naguib Sources for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval Hagr Edfu Elisabeth O'Connell Christianity in Kom Ombo Adel Sadek Identification of the Monastery of Nubians in Wadi al-Natrun Fr. Bigoul al-Suriany Monneret de Villard (1881-1954) and Nubia Fr. Awad Wadi Preservation The Conservation of the Mural Paintings of Anba Hatra Monastery Ashraf Nageh