BSc, MA

Hany is the president and founder of the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society – a pioneering society he established some four decades ago in Los Angeles. He is also the Director of the Coptic Centre in Los Angeles, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia. A prolific author with no less than 100 publications to his name, in 2021 he developed, together with Mina Makar, a Coptic Bible App for iOS and Android Devices.  Hany is a project partner of the Göttingen “Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament Project,” and a project partner of the St Paul’s Monastery Manuscript Project. He lectures part-time at UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department (Los Angeles), the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), and St Athanasius & St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Seminary (Los Angeles), offering units in Coptic language and Liturgy. An avid Coptic philologist, Hany’s research interests also include Manuscript Studies, Christian-Arabic Studies, and Coptic Studies.

Selected Books

(2023) with Lisa Agaiby, Tim Vivian (eds). Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Coptic Studies. (Peeters: Louvain). Forthcoming

(2020) with Gawdat Gabra (eds). Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and Its Surroundings and in the Eastern and Western Deserts. (AUC Press, Cairo).

(2017) with Gawdat Gabra (eds.) Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt (AUC Press: Cairo).

(2015) with Gawdat Gabra (eds.) Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt. (AUC Press: Cairo).

(2013) with Gawdat Gabra (eds.) Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia. (AUC Press: Cairo).

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles/book chapters

(2023) “An Unedited Fragment of the Sahidic Version of the Book of Exodus” in Lisa Agaiby, Tim Vivian, and H. N. Takla (eds). Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Coptic Studies. (Peeters: Louvain). Forthcoming.

(2022) “The Coptic Bible” Eugen Pentiuc (ed). Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity. (Oxford University Press, Oxford).

(2020) “Manuscripts from St. Antony and St. Paul Monastery Outside of Egypt” in G. Gabra (ed.) and H. N. Takla (ed.). Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and Its Surroundings and in the Eastern and Western Deserts. (AUC Press, Cairo).

(2017) “The Arabic Version of the Miracles of Apa Mena Based on Two Unpublished Manuscripts in the Collections of the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society in Los Angeles and Ava Mina Monastery in Maryut Egypt” ” In G. Gabra (ed.) and H. N. Takla (ed.). Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt. Pp. 161-175 (AUC Press: Cairo)

(2016) “The Sahidic Book of Tobit and its Relationship to Arabic Manuscripts Found in Egypt” In P. Buzi, A.Camplani and F. Contardi (eds). Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome 2012. (Peeters: Louvain).