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Marie-Laure Davigo

Marie-Laure Davigo is an independent researcher in art history and archaeology of the Byzantine world and the Christian East.

Holder of a degree (mention Très Bien) from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE/PSL) in religious studies, she defended her dissertation in 2022 under the supervision of Ioanna Rapti on « The Icons of the Coptic Orthodox Churches of the Diocese of Qousseya-Meir, Metropolis of Asyut in Upper Egypt ». She is currently completing a degree at the Institute for Eastern Christianity (ICO) in Paris and pursues her research at the Byzantine Library of the Collège de France and at Ioanna Rapti’s seminar at the EPHE.

Her research focuses on the art of the Christian East, especially in Egypt and Jerusalem under the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries, and on the aesthetic, theological and identity-related stakes of Coptic icons. A scientific catalogue of unpublished icons from the diocese of Qousseya-Meir is forthcoming with the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo, and an article on the painter Anastasi al-Qudsī al-Rūmī and his unpublished icons in the Church of Archangel Gabriel at Qousseya is to appear in Eastern Christian Art (Peeters, Louvain).

An icon conservator trained at the Byzantine Museum of Athens (1980) and laureate of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation for Vocation, she worked for the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) in cooperation with the Coptic Orthodox Church (2003), for the Sacred Art Centre of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK, Lebanon, 2004), and carried out the inventory of the medieval Christian heritage of Albania as well as of icons in northern Syria for Mgr Edelby. She is also interested in the geopolitics of the Near East and in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.

At the Pluriel Congress in Cordoba in February 2026, she delivered a paper entitled : « The Kaaba and the Holy Sepulchre in image: memory of pilgrimage ».

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