AHMED SEDDIK
Free-lance Guide, Speaker, Translator, Writer, and Researcher
ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
010-6768269
Lectures from 2006 to present
- Give a Pharaoh Five, a joint lecture with Bill Barazzuol
- The Divine Board, Pharaoh Amasis in Art and History, with Dr. Raymond Stock
- The Battle of Kadesh
- The Tale of Sinuhe, a Highly Informative Performative Narrative
- Music in Ancient Egypt, a joint lecture with Dr. Khairy ElMalt
- Behold How Howard Uncovered Tut
- A Night of Hieroglyphics
- Nefertiti
- View from a Mashrabiyya: the Architecture of History in the History of Architecture
- Feasting with the Pharaohs, Banqueting in Antiquity, with Bill Barazzuol
- The HelleNilotic Melting Pot
- Freezing Time: from Imhotep to Ahmed Zewail
- Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame
- Alexander: a King Akin to a God
- Eratosthenes, from Cyrene to Syene
- Pharaohs of Pharos
- The Roman Aroma
- A Crum of Cruelty
- A Taint of Atenism
- The Art of the State in the State of the Art
- The Hype in the Hypostyle
- The Tale of an Ancient Egyptian Expat
- Relief of Belief
- When in Doubt, Hieroglyph it Out
- Thieves from Thebes
- Relief Beyond Belief
- When Domes Dominate
- From Khaemwas to Zahi Hawass
- From Cubits to Units, a History of Measurement
- Emulate an Amulet
- Write Like an Egyptian & Hear it "From Pharaoh's Lips"
- Sobek, Biology and Myth, a joint lecture with Dr. Jeffrey Dean Miller
- Pinpointing Punt, a joint lecture with Nadia Mottalib
- Ramsiscape, a joint lecture with Dr. Ann Shafer
- From Haroun Al-Rashid to the Stone of Rashid
- Lemon, Biography of a Fruit
- Ahmed Shawqi with Howard Carter
- Ahmed Shawqi with Tutankhamon
- Albert Einstein, Father of the Atomic Age
- Powerpoint to Empower Your Point
- Digital Grammar
- Networking That Works
- Ahmed Shawqi in France
- How Gibraltar Altered History
- “Weaving the Web”
- Ahmed Shawqi, a Children’s Poet
- Umm Kulthum with Hafez Ibrahim and Ahmed Shawqi
- Ahmed Shawqi, the Bard of Wisdom
- Ahmed Shawqi, the Egyptologist Poet
- From Karma to Karama
- "Naguib Mahfouz as Imhotep and Manetho, a joint lecture with Dr. Raymond Stock
- Romance in the Land of the Pharaohs
- Ahmed Shawqi in Philae
- “Champollion: The Linguist and the Emperor”
- “100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian”
- Conquering the City of Grammar
- Law in Ancient Egypt
- Color in Ancient Egypt, a joint lecture with Dr. Gamal Lamie
- Ancient Egyptian Fauna
- Ancient Egyptian Flora
- Sailing in Ancient Egypt
- Naguib Mahfouz: Reading from the Otherworld, with Dr. Raymond Stock
- Imhotep, a Modern Mind in an Ancient Body
- The Story of Influenza
- The Two Doves
- What Is Light?
- Reshaping the Shipwrecked Sailor
- Making Zoser Closer to Eternity
- From Narmer to Nasser
- Isis and Osiris
- A Virtual Tour to the Egyptian Museum
- The Hieoglyphic Nature of Art
- Ancient Egyptian Proverbs
- Body Language in Ancient Egypt
- Sinuhe Insinuations
- The Art of Guiding
- Flood, Growth, Harvest
- The Tooth That Told the Truth
- Date Palm: Biography of a Tree
- Let Stone Set the Tone
- Ancient Egyptian Religion
- The Third Dynasty is a Charm
- Diplomacy in Ancient Egypt
- The Art of Translation
- Cleanliness in Ancient Egypt
- The Ancient Egyptian House
- Medicine in Ancient Egypt
- The Art of Public Speaking
- Etymological Stories
- Magic in Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egyptian Architects
- Dying to Live
- The Art of Tutoring
- Lily: Biography of a Flower
- The Hoopoe or News from the Father of News
- Quarrying the Quarantine
- Health in Ancient Egypt
- Drama Drawn from Ancient Egypt
- Egyptian Mathematics
- Ancient Egyptian Technology
- Ancient Egyptian Palaces
- Women in Ancient Egypt
- The Queens of Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egypt in Film
- The Hyksos of Evil
- Kinship and Kingship
- The Hype Style of the Hypostyle
- The Plastic Bag of Antiquity
- Sport in Ancient Egypt
- For Whom the Sun Shines
- The Spirit in Ancient Egypt
- A Pause at the Paws of the Sphinx
- Stele: Bulletin Boards of Ancient Egypt
- The Bee in Ancient Egypt
- Money: From Bricks to Clicks
- Bread in Ancient Egypt
- Friendship and Marriage in Ancient Egypt
- Pensive Pencils
- Zoser: From Imhotep to Lauer
- An Abode Beyond the Boundaries of Death
- Sound in Ancient Egypt
- Google Your Life
- Ahmed Shawqi: the Poet of Faith
- The Locus of the Lost Lotus in Egyptian Art
- The KaRaVans of Ra
- Egypt: Magic and Tragic
- From Sultan Barquq to King Tut
- Saqqara Village: Passport to the Past
- Cleanliness in Science, History and Art
- From Bab Zewaila to Bab Zewail
- When Nature Speaks, Art Listens
- Don't Worry, We Have a Quarry, to Tell the Story
- Sounding the Sands: Archeology Techniques
- The Fourth Dynasty: Builders with Boulders
- An Elapse Marking a Collapse
- Carter: Purse and Curse
- Strokes of Genius on Ostraca
- Camels Were Late Comers
- Symposium on the Nile, with Barazzuol, Alshafie and Professor Leach
- In the Museum of the Atom
- The Story of Garbage
- Chorus with Horus
- The Mother in Ancient Egypt
- Nursing the Curse
- Knowledge: a Boon from the Baboon
- From Adoring the Sun to a Door in the Sun
- Mirroring Mereruka’s Meridian
- Wheel in, Camel out
- Petrie: Inch by Inch
- Ancient Egyptian Games
- From the Nave to the Cave
- Making Fayoum Bloom
- Restoring the Cosmic Chasm
- The Rise of Monasticism
- Ahmed Shawqi: from the Poet of the Prince to the Prince of Poets
- The Egyptian Temple: from the Core Niche to the Corniche
- Karnak: a Hub for Hubris
- Tut: an Heir to an Era of Air
- The Ottoman Style: More Flash for Less Cash
- Lured by the Lucre
- Museums: Creation and Curation
- The Narcotic Nilotic Lotus
- Egypt: the Dynastic Destiny
- The Double Helix: The Inspiring Spiral
- Wade in Wood, Hopes on Ropes
- Ahmed Shawqi in School
- The ABC of Electricity
- Ibn Al-haytham: the Father of Optics
- The Story of Numbers
- Your Wasta to Waset
- The Boy King Wanted His Plaything
- How Laser Works
Lecture Series Given:
1.Egyptolgoy Series
2.Go Digital, You’ll Go Far!
3.Ahmed Shawqi
4.Ahmed Zewail Series for popularizing science
Ahmed Seddik spoke before:
The Egyptology Society
The Egyptology Academy
The Desert Development Center
The Sawy Culturewheel
The Seton Hall Law School - Cairo Summer Program
Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Marketplace
SOC 299: invited by Dr. Emad El-Din Aysha
South Dakota Delegation
Students from Ulsan University in Korea, invited by Dr. Cyrus Reed, Associate Provost
Performing and Visual Arts
The British International School
Course: ARIC-315: ARABIC DRAMA (invited by Dr. Birairi M)
CLASSICAL PURSUITS INC.
Taught classes while he was still in Primary School
Interviews Given:
Interviewed by these individuals or organizations from 2005 to present:
BBC TV - Tessa Dunlop (www.tessadunlop.com)
CNN - Dan Lothian: Reaction to President Obama's speech
History Channel: Chasing Mummies: The Amazing Adventures of Zahi Hawass
Mentorn TV: the Tourist, Directed by Christian Watt
Egyptian TV: Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Nile TV, OTV
The Last Millionaire, BBC
Corriere della Sera Newspaper by Viviana Mazza
Youth and Sports Radio, Sailing on the Banks of Time
European Program (95.4)
Appeared in “Spell from the East” documentary.
Daily Star - Sara O. Wali: Egyptologists debate Pharaohs’ names
Daily Star - Nader Ramadan: Sham El-Nessim is a lot more than coloring eggs
Daily Star - Annelle Sheline: Gates of Glory and Facades of Fame
Al-Ahram Weekly - Amira El-Naqeeb: In the Realm of History
AUC Dimensions
AUC Caravan – Personal Biography by Arwa Ibrahim
IslamOnline, Noha Mohsen
Too Long to be True, Hala Hashim for A-U-C news
Translating
Contract with Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (http://www.mcit.gov.eg/) to translate into Arabic a book by Kent R. Weeks entitled The illustrated guide to Luxor: tombs, temples, and museums. The translation will go on the web as an electronic portal. Recommended for this role by Dr. Chahinda Karim in ARIC and X in Egyptology. Contract signed May 17, 2009 .
Translated for the organizations or individuals from 2003 to present:
Time Magazine (2005 - present), most recently with Ayman Nour on his release
Egyptian Exploration Society
Oxfam International
Seton Hall Law Program
Rosalyoussef Magazine
American Embassy
Vodafone
Global LT
El Sawy Culturewheel
Xendex Entertainment
World-Check
Jerry Leach
Ayman Nour
Raymond Stock
Peter Blauner, Novelist
Bill Barazzuol
Documentaries Translated:
Saved by the Sun
Connecting Delta Cities
Six Degrees Could Change the World
Articles Translated:
The Plight of Egyptian Bahá’ís
Nuclear Weapons
Translation of chapters from Tārīkh al-ustādh al-Imām al-Shaykh Muhammad Abduh by Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā
Christian Zionism and its Religious Influence in American Politics
Nano Song
Books Translated
Case Studies in Clinical Surgery
The Illustrated Guide to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings by Dr. Kent R. Weeks
Named Tours
Gats of Glory and Facades of Fame
Let Stone Set the Tone
Making El Fayoum Bloom
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tours
Led about 100 tour groups from 2004 to present:
Seton Hall Law Program, Faculty and Students
Time Magazine, Chief of the Middle East Bureau
Yale University
Cornell University
Rice University
AUC Faculty and Students
British Engineering Institutions - Egypt (BEIE)
Alexandria School of Theology (http://www.ast-eg.org/)
Dr. and Ms. William Vocke of Carnegie Endowment
Dr. George P. Fletcher of Columbia
Dr. Bernard Freaman of Seton Hall
James K. Galbraith
James Balfour of Oxfam
Peter Blauner, Novelist (http://www.peterblauner.com/)
Dr. Jerry W. Leach
US Consul-General Roberto Powers
British Museum Curators
Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths, former British minister
Dr. Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science
Dr. Victor G. Vogel, Director of the Cancer Institute
Stanley F. Buchthal, an entrepreneur and producer
John Bohannon, Science Magazine Correspondent
“The City of the Dead "Informal Settlements and Development Strategies
Middle East Studies Program, the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities
Ahmed Seddik has teamed with the following distinguished scholars during his tours and lectures:
Dr. Raymond Stock, Naguib Mahfouz Biographer
Dr. Bernard Freamon, Director of the Law School's Program for the Study of Law in the Middle East
Dr. Jeffrey Dean Miller, Biologist
Dr. Khairy ElMalt, Director of the Institute of Pharaonic Music
Dr. Ann Shafer, Director of the Art Program
Dr. Gamal Lamie, Professor of Visual Art at the American University
Bill Barazzuol, Vice President of the Egyptology
Mahmoud El Halwagy, Chief Curator, Cairo Museum
Frequently Given Tours (FGT):
Cairo Museum
Pyramids
Coptic Cairo
Islamic Cairo
El-Fayoum
Karnak
Alexandria
Tutoring
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Bernard Freamon, Director of the Seton Hall Program for the Study of Law
Ann Shafer, Art Program Director at AUC
Roland Bunge, General Manager of American Express
Floridalma Franco Paiz, Guatemala 's ambassador to Egypt
George P. Fletcher. Cardozo Professor at Columbia Law School
Marc Sperling, General Manager of Mercedes Benz in Egypt
Charlotte Madsen, Director of Global Operations at Vodafone
Patrick Fitzpatrick, General Manager of Egypt Today - The Magazine of Egypt
Tutored several hundred AUC students in Arabic
Tutored a number of AUC students in English
Tutored students for GRE exams
Tutored a few high school students
Tutored PowerPoint
Tutored one of his high school teachers in Classic Arabic
Storytelling
Hosted by Noreen Karam, director of housekeeping at Four Seasons
Research
Volunteered in the AUC library to help make its catalogue conform with the Library of Congress.
Participated in a survey for the flora and fauna of AUC’s New Campus Site, under AUC biology professor Dr. Carey Dustin
Assisted Dr. Bernard K. Freeman of Seton Hall
Assisted Dr. Ernest Wolf-Gazo in giving lectures on philosophy and art
Assisted Dr. Jerry W. Leach in preparation of PowerPoint on Global Warming
Assisted Dr. Chahinda Karim
Introduced Zahi Hawass when he spoke at Ewart Hall in 2007 on “Recent
Discoveries in Egyptology”
Introduced Khairy El Malt of the Institute of Pharaonic Music when he spoke at
the CultureWheel in 2008 on “Ancient Egyptian Music.”
Speechwriting
Introduced:
John T. Swanson (3 times),
Melinda K. Hartwig,
Raymond Stock, a plethora of times
Lisa Sabbahy,
Greg Deyoung,
Michael Hebert,
Mark Werner,
Ann Shafer,
Ernest Wolf Gazo,
Salima Ikram,
Jerry W. Leach,
Ryan Derby-Talbot,
Brian Lucena,
Richard Charles Hoath,
Sheldon Watts,
Farouk El-Baz (http://faroukelbaz.com)
William Evenhouse (www.thefolksinger.com)
Yacoub Atrash, musician
Introduced the following documentaries:
The Eloquent Peasant
The Night of Counting the Years
Arbitration in the Sawy’s Reading Competition
Trained Tour Guides
Writing
Published a poem on Queen Hatshepsut in Dimensions
Published a poem on Queen Nefertiti, broadcast on the General Program (107.4)
Published a poetic essay on Imhotep in Youm 7, an Egyptian newspaper
Speak Out (BARQIYYA, Volume 4, Issue 1 October 2001, The American University in Cairo)
Marsa Alam, short story
Kadesh, a poem
Thoth, an essay
Your Visa to Giza
-Interviewed Dr. Hussein Madkour, vice-president for the Authority of State Suits, to produce a brief biography of his father, Dr. Muhammed AbdelFattah Sallam Madkour, a prolific author and professor of Islamic Sharia at Cairo University
-Interviewed the renowned Egyptologist Barry J. Kemp
- Interviewed Stanley F. Buchthal
Seddik is currently translating into English a novel by Ahmed Shawqi
Ahmed Seddik maintains a blog: http://ahmedseddik.blogspot.com/
Book review:
Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize by Ahmed H. Zewail
Professional Memberships:
The American Research Center in Egypt
The Egypt Exploration Society
Sawy Radio Council of Advisors
Positions:
Former President of the Egyptology Society
Former President of the Mathematics Society
Awards and Accolades
Presidential Scholarship from the Scholar Ship
Outstanding Leadership Award
Acknowledgements
By Dr. Raymond Stock in Dreams of Departure
Sponsorships
Cairo Science Festival (http://www.cairosciencefestival.org)
References
Dr. Andrew Main, formerly AUC Biology
Dr. John T. Swanson, Director of the Core Curriculum
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Supreme Council of Antiquities
Dr. Jerry W. Leach, Director of American Studies Center
Scott MacLeod, Middle East bureau chief for TIME Magazine
Dr. Chahinda Karim, Professor of Islamic Art at the American University in Cairo
Dr. Nicholas Hopkins, former HUSS Dean
Dr. Jeffrey Miller, formerly AUC Biology
Dr. Ralph Berenger, American University in Sharjah
Mr. Bill Barazzuol of American International School
Ms. Aryn Baker of Time Magazine's bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan
Dr. Bernard Freamon, Director of the Law School's Program for the Study of Law in the Middle East
Mr. John Solomon of the Government of Singapore
Mr. John Philip Lochner, Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard
Ms. Nancy Hagan
Mr. Donald Peter Lambe, English teacher for Saudi National Guard
Dr. Greg Deyoung
Dr. Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science
Dr. Raymond Stock
Hobbies
1-Horseback Riding
2-Running
3-Rock Climbing
4-Biking
Birth and Education
Ahmed Seddik was born on February 25, 1980 and received his Egyptology training at the American University in Cairo. Ahmed Seddik was a student of the world famous Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and the erudite historian John T. Swanson
Work in Progress
Book: the Art of Guiding
Article: Islam and the Environment, co-authored with Professor Jerry Leach
Audio Books of Ahmed Shawqi, Naguib Mahfouz and Arabic Teaching
Book: the Art of Guiding
Future Plans
Launching the Ahmed Seddik Scholarship for Studying Translation at AUC
Titles:
Arabic’s Leading Ambassador to the English Speaking World
The Curator of the Lexicographic Museum
The Wizard of Ancient Egypt
King of Guides
Hello Ahmed
ردحذفJust a note to say we remember you well and wish you the best
James,Ying & Emma
Especially Emma. . !