Two  ground-breaking books

 provide an unique perspective of the Egypt’s

Pharaonic and Christian heritages

LABIB HABACHI – The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist is the biography a major figure in mid-twentieth-century Egyptology, an Egyptian who was marginalised for most of his career.  

CHRISTIANITY IN THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS – The Coptic Orthodox Church  weaves together
historical research with absorbing stories that offer a captivating insight into a side of Egypt that will be new
to many readers.

Jill Kamil, a writer specialising in Egyptology and Coptic history who has lived in Egypt since 1954,  is the author of The Ancient Egyptians: How they Lived and Worked (1976), published in revised form as The Ancient Egyptians: Life in the Old Kingdom  in 1985.   Her unique format  guidebooks to Luxor, Sakkara and Memphis, and Upper Egypt and Nubia, were first published in the l970’s, and came out in revised editions in 1996 under the title Jill Kamil Guides.  They are still on the market. Kamil has also written history and guides to Aswan and Abu Simbel, and The Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, published in 1991 and 1993 respectively. She contributed chapters on these subjects to two titles in the Insight Guide series - Egypt and The Nile.

 For the last fifteen years she has been founding  Heritage Page editor of Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt’s leading English language newspaper, for which she has written on subjects related to Pharaonic Egypt and early Christianity.