 St Catherine's new Visitor Centre  THIS IMAGE of the Archbishop of Sinai drinking tea with Bedouin in the garden of the Monastery of Saint Catherine by Bruce White is one of many unique photographs that grace a new publication from the American University in Cairo Press. Saint Catherine's Monastery: Sinai, Egypt -- a Photographic Essay is a handsome book on the Greek Orthodox monastery and its buildings containing many newly-commissioned colour photographs. The concise and informative text by Helen C Evans is preceded by a special introduction by His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, abbot of the monastery. (Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Distributed in Egypt by AUC Press) parent page (25 November - 1 December 2004, issue #718) |