Ahmed Seddik CV

AHMED SEDDIK

Free-lance Guide, Speaker, Translator, Writer, and Researcher

www.ahmedseddik,com

ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

010-6768269

Lectures from 2006 to present

1. Give a Pharaoh Five, a joint lecture with Bill Barazzuol
2. The Divine Board, Pharaoh Amasis in Art and History, with Dr. Raymond Stock
3. The Battle of Kadesh
4. The Tale of Sinuhe, a Highly Informative Performative Narrative
5. Music in Ancient Egypt, a joint lecture with Dr. Khairy ElMalt
6. Behold How Howard Uncovered Tut
7. A Night of Hieroglyphics
8. Nefertiti
9. View from a Mashrabiyya: the Architecture of History in the History of Architecture
10. Feasting with the Pharaohs, Banqueting in Antiquity, with Bill Barazzuol
11. The HelleNilotic Melting Pot
12. Freezing Time: from Imhotep to Ahmed Zewail
13. Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame
14. Alexander: a King Akin to a God
15. Eratosthenes, from Cyrene to Syene
16. Pharaohs of Pharos
17. The Roman Aroma
18. A Crum of Cruelty
19. A Taint of Atenism
20. The Art of the State in the State of the Art
21. The Hype in the Hypostyle
22. The Tale of an Ancient Egyptian Expat
23. Relief of Belief
24. When in Doubt, Hieroglyph it Out
25. Thieves from Thebes
26. Relief Beyond Belief
27. When Domes Dominate
28. From Khaemwas to Zahi Hawass
29. From Cubits to Units, a History of Measurement
30. Emulate an Amulet
31. Write Like an Egyptian & Hear it "From Pharaoh's Lips"
32. Sobek, Biology and Myth, a joint lecture with Dr. Jeffrey Dean Miller
33. Pinpointing Punt, a joint lecture with Nadia Mottalib
34. Ramsiscape, a joint lecture with Dr. Ann Shafer
35. From Haroun Al-Rashid to the Stone of Rashid
36. Lemon, Biography of a Fruit
37. Ahmed Shawqi with Howard Carter
38. Ahmed Shawqi with Tutankhamon
39. Albert Einstein, Father of the Atomic Age
40. Powerpoint to Empower Your Point
41. Digital Grammar
42. Networking That Works
43. Ahmed Shawqi in France
44. How Gibraltar Altered History
45. “Weaving the Web”
46. Ahmed Shawqi, a Children’s Poet
47. Umm Kulthum with Hafez Ibrahim and Ahmed Shawqi
48. Ahmed Shawqi, the Bard of Wisdom
49. Ahmed Shawqi, the Egyptologist Poet
50. From Karma to Karama
51. "Naguib Mahfouz as Imhotep and Manetho, a joint lecture with Dr. Raymond Stock
52. Romance in the Land of the Pharaohs
53. Ahmed Shawqi in Philae
54. “Champollion: The Linguist and the Emperor”
55. “100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian”
56. Conquering the City of Grammar
57. Law in Ancient Egypt
58. Color in Ancient Egypt, a joint lecture with Dr. Gamal Lamie
59. Ancient Egyptian Fauna
60. Ancient Egyptian Flora
61. Sailing in Ancient Egypt
62. Naguib Mahfouz: Reading from the Otherworld, with Dr. Raymond Stock
63. Imhotep, a Modern Mind in an Ancient Body
64. The Story of Influenza
65. The Two Doves
66. What Is Light?
67. Reshaping the Shipwrecked Sailor
68. Making Zoser Closer to Eternity
69. From Narmer to Nasser
70. Isis and Osiris
71. A Virtual Tour to the Egyptian Museum
72. The Hieoglyphic Nature of Art
73. Ancient Egyptian Proverbs
74. Body Language in Ancient Egypt
75. Sinuhe Insinuations
76. The Art of Guiding
77. Flood, Growth, Harvest
78. The Tooth That Told the Truth
79. Date Palm: Biography of a Tree
80. Let Stone Set the Tone
81. Ancient Egyptian Religion
82. The Third Dynasty is a Charm
83. Diplomacy in Ancient Egypt
84. The Art of Translation
85. Cleanliness in Ancient Egypt
86. The Ancient Egyptian House
87. Medicine in Ancient Egypt
88. The Art of Public Speaking 
89. Etymological Stories
90. Magic in Ancient Egypt
91. Ancient Egyptian Architects
92. Dying to Live
93. The Art of Tutoring
94. Lily: Biography of a Flower
95. The Hoopoe or News from the Father of News
96. Quarrying the Quarantine
97. Health in Ancient Egypt
98. Drama Drawn from Ancient Egypt
99. Egyptian Mathematics
100. Ancient Egyptian Technology
101. Ancient Egyptian Palaces
102. Women in Ancient Egypt
103. The Queens of Ancient Egypt
104. Ancient Egypt in Film
105. The Hyksos of Evil
106. Kinship and Kingship
107. The Hype Style of the Hypostyle
108. The Plastic Bag of Antiquity
109. Sport in Ancient Egypt
110. For Whom the Sun Shines
111. The Spirit in Ancient Egypt
112. A Pause at the Paws of the Sphinx
113. Stele: Bulletin Boards of Ancient Egypt
114. The Bee in Ancient Egypt
115. Money: From Bricks to Clicks
116. Bread in Ancient Egypt
117. Friendship and Marriage in Ancient Egypt
118. Pensive Pencils
119. Zoser: From Imhotep to Lauer
120. An Abode Beyond the Boundaries of Death
121. Sound in Ancient Egypt
122. Google Your Life
123. Ahmed Shawqi: the Poet of Faith
124. The Locus of the Lost Lotus in Egyptian Art
125. The KaRaVans of Ra
126. Egypt: Magic and Tragic
127. From Sultan Barquq to King Tut
128. Saqqara Village: Passport to the Past
129. Cleanliness in Science, History and Art
130. From Bab Zewaila to Bab Zewail
131. When Nature Speaks, Art Listens
132. Don't Worry, We Have a Quarry, to Tell the Story
133. Sounding the Sands: Archeology Techniques
134. The Fourth Dynasty: Builders with Boulders
135. An Elapse Marking a Collapse
136. Carter: Purse and Curse
137. Strokes of Genius on Ostraca
138. Camels Were Late Comers
139. Symposium on the Nile, with Barazzuol, Alshafie and Professor Leach
140. In the Museum of the Atom
141. The Story of Garbage
142. Chorus with Horus
143. The Mother in Ancient Egypt
144. Nursing the Curse
145. Knowledge: a Boon from the Baboon
146. From Adoring the Sun to a Door in the Sun
147. Mirroring Mereruka’s Meridian
148. Wheel in, Camel out
149. Petrie: Inch by Inch
150. Ancient Egyptian Games
151. From the Nave to the Cave
152. Making Fayoum Bloom
153. Restoring the Cosmic Chasm
154. The Rise of Monasticism
155. Ahmed Shawqi: from the Poet of the Prince to the Prince of Poets
156. The Egyptian Temple: from the Core Niche to the Corniche
157. Karnak: a Hub for Hubris
158. Tut: an Heir to an Era of Air
159. The Ottoman Style: More Flash for Less Cash
160. Lured by the Lucre
161. Museums: Creation and Curation
162. The Narcotic Nilotic Lotus
163.  Egypt: the Dynastic Destiny
164. The Double Helix: The Inspiring Spiral
165.  Wade in Wood, Hopes on Ropes
166.  Ahmed Shawqi in School
167.  The ABC of Electricity
168.  Ibn Al-haytham: the Father of Optics
169.  The Story of Numbers
170. Your Wasta to Waset
171. The Boy King Wanted His Plaything
172. 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

U.S. State Department

Egyptian Exploration Society

Oxfam International

Seton Hall Law Program

Rosalyoussef Magazine

Cairo Times Magazine

            Egypt’s Supreme Court

            American Embassy

            Cairo Museum

            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

Princeton University

Cambridge University

Time Magazine, Chief of the Middle East Bureau

Harvard University

Yale University

Cornell University

Rice University

AUC Faculty and Students

University of British Columbia

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)

Egypt Today Magazine

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