My book on the mosques of Egypt, for which have done the photographs as well as the text, will be a companion to The Churches of Egypt (already published by AUC Press), so the format will be one designed to appeal primarily to the general public, with large format color spreads. However, the inclusion of a plan for every monument (there are around eighty in all) will also make it useful for the specialist. Many of the mosques outside Cairo have had very little written on them that is accessible to a general audience, so I hope to make some of these better known. It will be available from mid-December 2016.
I was director of the project Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of Cairo, sponsored by the Egyptian Antiquities Program of the American Research Center in Cairo and by AUC. This documents monumental epigraphy on Islamic monuments in Cairo from the beginnings to 1800. The data collection and photography for this finished in 2004, but, in conjunction with Cultnat, we migrated the data to new software (Microsoft Access) to make it fully compatible (and searchable) in Arabic and English. We will now publish it on a website, to make access to the thousands of photographs and the database information easier. We are currently testing it, and hope to have it online early in 2017.
