Magdi Guirguis

Magdi Guirguis is a professor at Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, and scientific collaborator at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO). He is the author of: An Armenian Artist in Ottoman Egypt: Yuhanna al-Armani and His Coptic Icons (AUC Press, 2008). He was previously chair of Coptic studies at the American University in Cairo, and a Fellow of the Alexander-von Humboldt Foundation (2012–2014).