Chercheurs
Mennat-Allah El Dorry
meldorry at ifao dot egnet dot net
Archaeobotany, Egyptology, Coptology, Food Archaeology
Chercheuse associée
Chair of Coptic Studies, American University in Cairo; Lecturer of Archaeobotany, Ain Shams University.
PhD
2023 – current: Chair of Coptic Studies (Associate Professor), American University in Cairo
2022 – current: Lecturer of Archaeobotany, Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University
2022: Fellow, ERC-Desert Networks Project, HiSOMA/CNRS, University of Lyon 2, France
2007-2022: Ministry of Antiquities
2017-2018: Post doctoral fellow, Institut français d’archéologie orientale and Research Centre in Cairo, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
2022 – current: Lecturer of Archaeobotany, Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University
2022: Fellow, ERC-Desert Networks Project, HiSOMA/CNRS, University of Lyon 2, France
2007-2022: Ministry of Antiquities
2017-2018: Post doctoral fellow, Institut français d’archéologie orientale and Research Centre in Cairo, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
Food, archaeology, Coptic Studies
Varied Missions, Ifao and non-Ifao
El Dorry, M.-A., & Ahmed, E. (2024). A Preliminary Assessment of Archaeobotanical Remains from Saqqara, Egypt. In J. Kamrin, M. Ismail Khaled, & C. Leitz (Eds.), The Kingdom of the Mummies: Essays in Memory of Ramadan B. Hussein (pp. 1–9). Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
El Dorry, M.-A. (Ed.). (2023a). Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan: Selected Studies in Archaeology, Culture, and History. Institut français d’archéologie orientale.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2023b). Forbidden, Sprouted, Stewed: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Overview of Fava Beans in Ancient Egypt. In M.-A. El Dorry (Ed.), Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan: Selected Studies in Archaeology, Culture, and History (pp. 87–104). Institut français d’archéologie orientale.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2023c). It’s a Dung Job: Exploring Fuel Disc Production in Egyptian Monasteries. In J. Cromwell & L. Blanke (Eds.), Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine (pp. 212–232). Cambridge University Press.
Hood, A., Dorry, M.-A. E., Odler, M., Quiles, A., Rowland, J., & Zakrzewski, S. (2023d). Beyond Dating: Science in Egyptology. Interdisciplinary Egyptology, 1(1), Article 1. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/integ/article/view/7695
Warden, L. A., Picardo, N. S., Bertini, L., Chu, M. P. T., Coate, E., El Dorry, M.-A., Hart, E., & Herbich, T. (2023). Expanding our Data from the Old-Middle Kingdom Western Delta: First Analyses of the Kom el-Hisn Provincialism Project. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 59, 220–263.
Colin, F., Quiles, A., Schuster, M., Schwartz, D., Duvette, C., Marchand, S., El Dorry, M.-A., & van Heesch, J. (2019). The End of the “Green Oasis”. Chronological Bayesian Modeling of Human and Environmental Dynamics in Bahariya (Egyptian Sahara) from Pharaonic Third Intermediate Period until Medieval Times. Radiocarbon, 00(00), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2019.106
El Dorry, M.-A. (2018). Grapes, Raisins and Wine? Archaeobotanical Finds from an Egyptian Monastery. In A. M. Mercuri, A. C. D’Andrea, R. Fornaciari, & A. Höhn (Eds.), Plants and People in the African Past: Progress in African Archaeobotany (pp. 90–99). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89839-1_6
El Dorry, M.-A. (2021). Appendix 3: The Objects. In F. Sadarangani, J. S. Taylor, A. Abd el-Aziz, M. Boraik, R. Eissa, A. el-Laithy, H. M. M. Mahmoud, & E. Shihab (Eds.), Excavations in the Khalid Ibn El-Waleed Garden, Luxor, Avenue of the Sphinxes (Vol. 88, pp. 118–124).
Mazou, L., Ballet, P., El Dorry, M.-A., Fournet, J.-L., Lecuyot, G., & Rossi, L. (2019). Un Thesauros/Grenier à Bouto. Approches préliminaires sur l’écosystème du site à l’époque impériale. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 225–257.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2018a). Foodways und landwirtschaftliche Tätigkeiten in einer ägyptischen Klosteranlage. In A. I. Blöbaum, M. Eaton-Krauss, & A. Wüthrich (Eds.), Peregrinations Avec Erhart Graefe: Festschrift Zu Seinem 75, Geburtstag (Multilingual edition, pp. 133–140). Zaphon.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2016). Wine Production in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Coptic Church. In M. F. Ayad (Ed.), Studies in Coptic Culture: Transmission and Interaction (pp. 92–106). American University in Cairo Press.
El Dorry, M.-A. (Ed.). (2023a). Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan: Selected Studies in Archaeology, Culture, and History. Institut français d’archéologie orientale.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2023b). Forbidden, Sprouted, Stewed: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Overview of Fava Beans in Ancient Egypt. In M.-A. El Dorry (Ed.), Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan: Selected Studies in Archaeology, Culture, and History (pp. 87–104). Institut français d’archéologie orientale.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2023c). It’s a Dung Job: Exploring Fuel Disc Production in Egyptian Monasteries. In J. Cromwell & L. Blanke (Eds.), Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine (pp. 212–232). Cambridge University Press.
Hood, A., Dorry, M.-A. E., Odler, M., Quiles, A., Rowland, J., & Zakrzewski, S. (2023d). Beyond Dating: Science in Egyptology. Interdisciplinary Egyptology, 1(1), Article 1. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/integ/article/view/7695
Warden, L. A., Picardo, N. S., Bertini, L., Chu, M. P. T., Coate, E., El Dorry, M.-A., Hart, E., & Herbich, T. (2023). Expanding our Data from the Old-Middle Kingdom Western Delta: First Analyses of the Kom el-Hisn Provincialism Project. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 59, 220–263.
Colin, F., Quiles, A., Schuster, M., Schwartz, D., Duvette, C., Marchand, S., El Dorry, M.-A., & van Heesch, J. (2019). The End of the “Green Oasis”. Chronological Bayesian Modeling of Human and Environmental Dynamics in Bahariya (Egyptian Sahara) from Pharaonic Third Intermediate Period until Medieval Times. Radiocarbon, 00(00), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2019.106
El Dorry, M.-A. (2018). Grapes, Raisins and Wine? Archaeobotanical Finds from an Egyptian Monastery. In A. M. Mercuri, A. C. D’Andrea, R. Fornaciari, & A. Höhn (Eds.), Plants and People in the African Past: Progress in African Archaeobotany (pp. 90–99). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89839-1_6
El Dorry, M.-A. (2021). Appendix 3: The Objects. In F. Sadarangani, J. S. Taylor, A. Abd el-Aziz, M. Boraik, R. Eissa, A. el-Laithy, H. M. M. Mahmoud, & E. Shihab (Eds.), Excavations in the Khalid Ibn El-Waleed Garden, Luxor, Avenue of the Sphinxes (Vol. 88, pp. 118–124).
Mazou, L., Ballet, P., El Dorry, M.-A., Fournet, J.-L., Lecuyot, G., & Rossi, L. (2019). Un Thesauros/Grenier à Bouto. Approches préliminaires sur l’écosystème du site à l’époque impériale. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 225–257.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2018a). Foodways und landwirtschaftliche Tätigkeiten in einer ägyptischen Klosteranlage. In A. I. Blöbaum, M. Eaton-Krauss, & A. Wüthrich (Eds.), Peregrinations Avec Erhart Graefe: Festschrift Zu Seinem 75, Geburtstag (Multilingual edition, pp. 133–140). Zaphon.
El Dorry, M.-A. (2016). Wine Production in Medieval Egypt: The Case of the Coptic Church. In M. F. Ayad (Ed.), Studies in Coptic Culture: Transmission and Interaction (pp. 92–106). American University in Cairo Press.
Jan 2024 Monks and Plants: An Archaeobotanical Study of Monastic Egypt
Conference: Reconstructing Past Monastic Life Inferences from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Sources, Unvieristy of Barcelona, Spain.
March 2023 Archaeobotany of the Egyptian Delta: State of Research
Delta Survey Workshop, Ain Shams Unvieristy
With Ch. Bouchaud, Cl. Malleson, A. Emery Barbier, Cl. Newton, Cl. Pagnoux
Feb 2023 “This is not a Kitchen”: Identifying Where People Cooked in Ancient Egyptian Households
Workshop: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food History in Egypt: Past and Present, BrIAS, Brussels.
Nov 2022 “Kitchens” vs. Food Preparation Spaces: Identifying Where People Cooked in Ancient Egyptian Households
Conference: Living in the House. Ifao/PCMA, Cairo
Jun 2022 Wondering about the Wandering Tiffins: Towards a History of Multi-Tiered Food Boxes
Oxford Food Symposium
Nov 2020 Revisiting Buto (In Arabic)
Workshop: Rencontres en archeometrie, Ifao, Cairo
Dec 2019 Archaeobotany of the Egyptian Delta: State of Research
Workshop: Alexandria the cosmopolis: a global perspective, CE Alex, Alexandria
With Ch. Bouchaud, Cl. Malleson, A. Emery Barbier, Cl. Newton, Cl. Pagnoux
Sept 2019 Plants for Food: Studying Agricultural and Food History
Workshop: Food and Prehistory: Workshop in Honour of Dr Geoffrey John Tassie for the Newton Mosharafa ‘Earliest Egypt’ project (French University in Egypt/University of Edinburgh), British Council, Cairo
June 2019 Agriculture and Viticulture in the New Kingdom-Antique Egyptian Delta
Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce
With: Ch. Bouchaud, Cl. Pagnoux, B. Redon, M.-F. Boussac, R. Saleh, L. Bouby, V. Bonhomme, S. Ivorra, J.-F. Terral.
June 2018 Reconstructing the Formation Processes at the Monastery of St Hadra in Aswan, Egypt
At the 9th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany, Gran Canaria, Spain
Conference: Reconstructing Past Monastic Life Inferences from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Sources, Unvieristy of Barcelona, Spain.
March 2023 Archaeobotany of the Egyptian Delta: State of Research
Delta Survey Workshop, Ain Shams Unvieristy
With Ch. Bouchaud, Cl. Malleson, A. Emery Barbier, Cl. Newton, Cl. Pagnoux
Feb 2023 “This is not a Kitchen”: Identifying Where People Cooked in Ancient Egyptian Households
Workshop: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food History in Egypt: Past and Present, BrIAS, Brussels.
Nov 2022 “Kitchens” vs. Food Preparation Spaces: Identifying Where People Cooked in Ancient Egyptian Households
Conference: Living in the House. Ifao/PCMA, Cairo
Jun 2022 Wondering about the Wandering Tiffins: Towards a History of Multi-Tiered Food Boxes
Oxford Food Symposium
Nov 2020 Revisiting Buto (In Arabic)
Workshop: Rencontres en archeometrie, Ifao, Cairo
Dec 2019 Archaeobotany of the Egyptian Delta: State of Research
Workshop: Alexandria the cosmopolis: a global perspective, CE Alex, Alexandria
With Ch. Bouchaud, Cl. Malleson, A. Emery Barbier, Cl. Newton, Cl. Pagnoux
Sept 2019 Plants for Food: Studying Agricultural and Food History
Workshop: Food and Prehistory: Workshop in Honour of Dr Geoffrey John Tassie for the Newton Mosharafa ‘Earliest Egypt’ project (French University in Egypt/University of Edinburgh), British Council, Cairo
June 2019 Agriculture and Viticulture in the New Kingdom-Antique Egyptian Delta
Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce
With: Ch. Bouchaud, Cl. Pagnoux, B. Redon, M.-F. Boussac, R. Saleh, L. Bouby, V. Bonhomme, S. Ivorra, J.-F. Terral.
June 2018 Reconstructing the Formation Processes at the Monastery of St Hadra in Aswan, Egypt
At the 9th International Workshop on African Archaeobotany, Gran Canaria, Spain
21-23 Mar ‘18 “Continuity and Transition: Approaches to Studying Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan” Conference
As Primary Organiser: IFAO/PCMA, Cairo
4-6 Nov 2017 “Science of Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies” Conference
As Primary Organiser; MoA/DAI/IFAO/ARCE/AUC/EES, Cairo.
2016, 2017, 2018, Annual Egyptian Archaeobotany Workshop
and many more
As Primary Organiser: IFAO/PCMA, Cairo
4-6 Nov 2017 “Science of Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies” Conference
As Primary Organiser; MoA/DAI/IFAO/ARCE/AUC/EES, Cairo.
2016, 2017, 2018, Annual Egyptian Archaeobotany Workshop
and many more