EWTN, the Global Catholic Television Network, released a docudrama on the Desert Fathers and St Paul the Hermit titled “The Kingdom Within – The Way of the Desert Fathers” which features Dr Lisa Agaiby, the Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St Athanasius College.
Watch on youtubeAbout Dr Lisa Agaiby
Lisa is the Academic Dean and Seinor Lecturer in Coptic Studies at St Athanasius College (SAC). She has a Masters degree in Egyptology and a Masters in Coptic Studies (both from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia), and a PhD from Macquarie University and from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her areas of interest include Coptic Studies, Early Egyptian Monasticism, Archaeology, and Christian-Arabic Studies.
Read more about what Dr Lisa Agaiby is up to here.
St Athanasius College specialises in Coptic Orthodox theological studies online and on campus. For 20 years, SAC has offered courses in diverse fields of theology and delivers undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degrees by research. SAC continues to offer a diverse and growing range of subject units including specialist languages such as Hebrew and Syriac.
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