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This new volume of the Bulletin de liaison de la ceramique egyptienne (BCE 25) continues the original editorial line, which is primarily to present the actual state of research into pottery found throughout Egypt and Nubia for all periods from the predynastic to the medieval period. BCE 25, however, is innovatory in offering a second part entitled "Studies on pottery workshops and ceramic production in Egypt, Nubia and Sudan". The focus is on ceramic workshops but the reader will also find several studies dealing with specifically Egyptian productions, whilst cultural exchanges between the Levant and Egypt, and between Egypt and Nubia as indicated by ceramic contacts also find their place in this volume. The latter cover a long chronological sequence which includes the Predynastic, the Protodynastic, the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period and finally the Roman era. For the next issue of the BCE (26 expected in 2016) we will continue to accept papers within a now widely open framework for all ceramic questions, whether they be archeological, technical, textual, iconographic, ethnographic etc. With your contributions, however, we would also like to persevere with research into pottery workshops and ceramic production in this and the following issues.