Mariam F. Ayad ed., "Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times" (American University in Cairo Press, 2024)

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Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times (American University in Cairo Press 2024) brings together fourteen contributions from global scholars all considering the theme of daily life and the Egyptian Coptic Christian minority community. The essays focus on ancient, late ancient, premodern, and contemporary questions about art and resistance, poverty and wealth, gender and ecclesiastical agency, dress and power, and much more.

New Books in Late Antiquity is presented by Ancient Jew Review

Dr. Mariam Ayad is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo.

Lydia Bremer-McCollum teaches Religious Studies at Spelman College.

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