Faculty of Archaeology

Prof.Dr. Maher Ahmed Ahmed Mohamed Eissa

Contact Information
Phone Number: 084 6300587                          
Fax Number: 084 6302350
E-mail Address: mae01@fayoum.edu.eg
Office: Bulding Of Faculty Archaeology - Egyptology Department
Post Address: Fayoum University - Faculty of Archaeology - Egyptology Department - POBox: 63514
Academic Qualifications
  BA : Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Fayoum Branch-1998
M.Sc : preparatory studies, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University - 1999
M.Sc : in Egyptology from Cairo University- Egypt/ Leiden University- The Netherlands -2004
PhD : in Egyptology from Cairo University- Egypt / Leiden University- The Netherlands  - 2009
Academic Positions
Demonstrator :   From 1999 To 2004
Assistant Lecturer :from 2004 to 2008
Lecturer : from 2008 To 2014
Assistant Professor: From 2014 To 2019
Professor: From 2019 Until Now
Educational Experience
 2014 Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Language and their Literature.
 2014 Associate Professor of Coptolgy/Egyptology, Fayoum University
 2009 Lecturer of the Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Languages, Fayoum University.
 2004 Assistant Lecturer, faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Fayoum Branch.
1998 Demonstrator, faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Fayoum Branch.
Research Interests
Egyptology
Ancient Egyptian language
Afro-Asiatic languages
Papyrology
Scholarships
 2001-2003: “Ritzen” scholarship at Leiden University, Netherlands
 2004-2008: PhD Scholarship at Leiden University, the Netherlands with Egyptian government grant
 2008: Scholarship from French Government, to study French language at Institute d’Tourne, France
 2012:2013: A post-doctoral at Leiden University, Netherlands with Egyptian government grant
2013: A Post. Doctoral at IRHT- CNRS, Paris, France
2014: a visiting scholar at LIAS, Leiden University, The Netherlands
 2014: A Post. Doctoral at IRHT- CNRS, Paris, France
Projects
  ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE PROJECT INITIATIVE AT EGYPT (UA-ASPIE): an external collaborator of the University of the Aegean ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE PROJECT INITIATIVE AT EGYPT (UA-ASPIE).
  Coptic Museum project: a team member of a project: “study and publish leather and basketry objects in the Coptic Museum in Cairo”. The project is collaboration between the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC), the Coptic Museum, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Ministry of State for Antiquities and the Ancient Egyptian Leatherwork Project.
 Archaeological Egyptian Heritage and Materials: “advances in non-invasive portable spectroscopy and imaging analysis”: a team member of a joint research project within the executive program of scientific and technological cooperation between the Italian republic and the Arab republic of Egypt for the years 2013-2015.
 Papyri of The National Library and Archives: a team member of project: “documentation, classification and study the Arabic, Greek and Coptic Papyri in the National library and Archives in Cairo”.
  Coptic Heritage documentation: The national project for registration and documentation of the Coptic Heritage, SCA 2010.
 Arabic Coptology Literature Database: a team leader of project “Arabic Coptology Literature Database”, the project is collaboration between the Center of Coptic Studies (Bibliotheca Alexandrina), and Fayoum University.
 Arabic OEB: a member of executive committee of the project “The Bibliography of Arabic Sources for Archaeology and Egyptology, the project is leading by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and jointly collaboration with Oxford University.
Membership in Scientific Committees, Boards and Organizations:
  Member of the International Association for Egyptologists.
  Member of the Francophone Association for Coptic Studies.
  Member of the board of the Coptic Museum from 2013
 Member of the board of the center of Coptic studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.
  Member of the International Council of Museum ICOM
  Member of the board of ICOM Egypt.
  Member of the board of The Arabic Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (ArIC)
  Member of the International Association for Arabic Papyrology
  Member of the International Association for Coptic Studies.
  Member of National Association of Preserving the Egyptian Heritage.
  Member of Association of Egyptian Egyptologists
Congresses and workshops
  Member of the Congress of the International Association for Coptic Studies 2004, 2008 and 2012.
1- 2004: attendance
2- 2008: paper entitles; "A Coptic Letter from Ihnasya el- Madinah, Cairo Museum SR 1245, with References to Coptic Medicine".
3- 2012: two papers entitle; "the Coptic Ostraca from The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization I"; and "Coptic Museum Fresco 13313"
Member of the Conference of Calligraphy center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2010.
1- 2003, 2005 and 2009: attendance
2- 2007: paper entitles; "unpublished Coptic papyri refers to eye treatment"
3- 2010: a paper entitles; "Money and currency in the Coptic Papyri"
Member of the Congress of the International Association for Arabic Papyrology 2006, 2009, and 2014
1- 2006: a paper entitles; "the Arabic and Islamic influences in the Coptic Epistolary formulae".
2- 2009: a paper entitles; "the Coptic medicine, unpublished Coptic papyri".
3- 2014: a paper entitles: “the Coptic Papyri in the National Egyptian Library and Archives”, a joint paper with Prof. Dr. Anne Boud’hors (CNRS Paris)
Member of the Board of Conferences of the Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University, from 2000 to 2006.
1- 2000 to 2005: the board member
2- 2006: a paper entitles; "The Coptic Papyri"
  Member of the Board of Conference of Alexandria through the ages, 2003.
   Member of the Board of the Conference of El-Bahyra district, 2004.
  Member of the workshop about “The Methodology and How to write A scientific paper in Islamic history and Archaeology”, which was held in IFAO 2007.
Member of the workshop about “The Methodology and How to write A scientific paper in Egyptology”, which was held in IFAO 2007& 2008.
Member of the Board of workshop about “The Documentation and registration of the Coptic Heritage” which was held in SCA 2009.
 Member of the International Congress about “The Roots of the Ancient of Arabic Dialects”, Tripoli, Libya, 2009, with a paper entitles; “The Influences of Arabic Language on Coptic Language before Islam in Egypt”
 Member of the Board of the International Congress for Coptic Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2010, and a paper entitles; "Coptic Ostraca relating to daily life from NMEC"
 Member of the Board of the international symposium “Ahmed Pasha Kamal and the pioneers of the calligraphy and writings in Arabic world”, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, October 2010.
 Co-chair of the Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference; UCL – London, “Forming Material Egypt”, May 2012. A paper entitles: “Museum Collections and Moving Objects in Egypt: An Approach to amend Current Situation”.
 Co-chair of the international congress for “The Heritage of Christianity in Nubia” , which held by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2015
 Member of the Board of the LACONA 10 conference; Lasers in the conservation of artworks (LACONA), American University, Sharjah, UAE
Scientific and teaching activities
  Supervisor and Co-supervisor for MA thesis & PhD dissertations at Egyptian Universities (Cairo, Fayoum, Alexandria, Assiout, South vally, and Monufiya).
Chief Editor of “Shedt”: the peer-reviewed journal of the Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University.
 Visiting scholar at Leiden University, the Netherlands from 2014
Co-chair of the Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference; UCL – London, “Forming Material Egypt”, May 2012.
   Co-chair of the International Conference of “the Heritage of Christianity in Nubia”, organized jointly by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Egyptian Catholic Institute at Cairo, 2015
  An external collaborator of the University of the Aegean ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE PROJECT INITIATIVE AT EGYPT (UA-ASPIE), Greece
Researcher in the Netherlands Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) from 2001
Previewer for the publications of Calligraphy center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Editor of the Scientific Material of Egyptology and ancient Languages in the Proceedings of conferences of Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University and Festschrift of Prof. Dr. M.A. Nur el-Din entitled “The Horizon; Studies in Egyptology, in Honour of M.A. Nur el-Din 2009.
 A member of Advisory board for the publications of the Coptic Studies Program, Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
  Lecturer of Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Languages at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Netherland Flemish Institute in Cairo and Egyptian Universities (Fayoum, Assiut and Alexandria).
Administration activities
Director of Management Information System (MIS) Project at Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University from April 2010 till March 2104
 Director of the Integrated Management Project at Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University from October 2009 till March 2014
  Member of the Board of Egyptology department council from 2010.
The head of the international Student office, Fayoum University, from 2011.
  Member of the high board for congress's at fayoum University, from 2011.
Puplications

2004: Maher Ahemd Eissa, Study of Some Coptic Papyri in the Coptic Museum, Cairo University.

 2007: Maher Ahemd Eissa, “The Coptic Papyri”, in: The Acts of the 6th Conference of The Faculty Archaeology, Fayoum University, Part II, Fayoum 2007, P. 977:988.

The Coptic Archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodito: PHD dissertation, Cairo University (Egypt)

 2010: Maher Ahemd Eissa, “The Influences of Arabic Language on Coptic Language before Islam in Egypt”, in proceeding of the International Congress about “The Roots of the Ancient of Arabic Dialects”, Tripoli, Libya, 2009. P. 273: 291 (this article in Arabic).

2009: Maher Ahemd Eissa, Coptic Texts Relating to Daily Life, Biblioteca Alexandrina.

2012: Maher Ahemd Eissa, “The Coptic Language in the Nubia”, BACS XLXI (2012), P.15: 22.

 2013: Maher Ahemd Eissa, the principle of the Coptic language Grammar, Biblioteca Alexandrina, (this book in Arabic).

2014: Maher Ahemd Eissa,” The Use of the Title APA for the Sender in an Opening Epistolary Formula”, in: Journal of Coptic Studies (JCoptS. 15) 2014, forthcoming.

 2014: Maher Ahemd Eissa, “A letter or an Exercise? O.NMEC 107”, in: Chronique d’Égypte LXXXIX (2014), FASC. 177, P. 197:201

2009: Maher Ahemd Eissa& Randa Baligh, "A Coptic Letter from Ihnasya el- Madinah, Cairo Museum SR 1245, with References to Coptic Medicine", Abgadiyat 4 (2009), P. 63: 68..

2014: Maher Ahemd Eissa& Louay M. Saied, “Museum Collections and Moving Objects in Egypt: An Approach to amend Current Situation”, in: EDAL 2014, forthcoming: this paper was given at the Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference; UCL – London, “Forming Material Egypt”, may 2012.