Author

Raymond Stock

is a Shillman/Ginsburg Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, formerly visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University. He is writing a biography of Egyptian Nobel laureate in literature Naguib Mahfouz, seven of whose books he has translated. Dr. Stock conducted a videotaped oral history project with Dr. Ragheb Moftah and his niece, Mrs Laurence Moftah for the Library of Congress World Heritage Series in 1996–1997.

Articles by this author

issue 5

Preserving Pharaonic Psalms for Christ

The musical heritage of the Coptic Church, which springs from perhaps the oldest musical tradition in the world, had already begun to fade by the early twentieth century. However, mainly thanks to one monkish layman, authentic Coptic psalmondy survives to this day.