الأربعاء، 11 مايو 2011

Ahmed Seddik CV


AHMED SEDDIK
Guide, Speaker, Translator, Teacher, Trainer, Storyteller, Writer, Editor, Linguist, Reporter, Researcher, Administrator, Egyptologist, Grammarian and Entrepreneur
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 Hyksosof 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
  173. Anatomy of an Atom
  174. The Trial of a Triad
  175. The Library of Alexandria
  176. Let the Fable Come to the Table
  177. A Tale of Two Pyramids
  178. Schistosomiasis and an Unparalleled Site of a Parasite, a joint lecture with Bill Barazzuol
  179. Ahmed Zewail's Voyage through Time
  180. The Magic of Marriage in Ancient Egypt
  181. ABC Latin
  182. Paremiology in Arabic, English and Latin
Lecture Series Given:
1.Egyptolgoy Series
2.Go Digital, You’ll Go Far!
3.Ahmed Shawqi
4.Ahmed Zewail Series for popularizing science
5-Mostafa Sadeq Rafei
Ahmed Seddik spoke before:
The American University in Cairo
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.
The House of the Poet in Al-Muez Street in the Palace City of Cairo
Taught classes while he was still in Primary School
Cairo Toastmasters Club
Nutty Scientists
Acted in the following plays:
1-Howared Carter
2-The Dream Stela
3-Khufu and the Magicians
4-Harkhuf
5-The Shipwrecked Sailor
6-A Ghost Story
Media Coverage:
www.polseguera.com
Ahram Weekly
Ahram Daily
Community Times

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
Mentorn TV: An Idiot Abroad, 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


How to Read the "Egyptian Book of the Dead” by Barry J. Kemp
Defending Humanity, When Force is Justified and Why by George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin

Imaging in Space and Time by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail

Produced and Translated for:
BBC World Service
CBS Network
Swedish Radio
VRT
France 2
French 24
Stampa
Espresso
Financial Times
The Daily Mirror
Xinhua
GEO Magazin

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
The American University in Cairo
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, Egyptian Presidential Candidate
Raymond Stock
Peter Blauner, Novelist
Bill Barazzuol

Documentaries Translated:
Saved by the Sun (www.pbs.org)
Connecting Delta Cities
Six Degrees Could Change the World (National Geographic Channel)
Earth Report: State of the Planet 2009]
The Eleventh Hour

Mathematics Events Hosted by Seddik as President of the Mathematics Society:

  1. Have Mathematicians Tamed the Beast of Infinity? by Dr. Michel Hébert
  2. Do infinitesimals REALLY exist? by Dr. Michel Hébert
  3. Movie: 'N' is a Number, introduced by Dr. Michel Hébert
  4. You're Probably Wrong, Fooled by Randomness by Dr. MARK ROY WERNER
  5. What Shape Could the Universe Be? by Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot
  6. Toward an Archaeology of Mathematics by Dr. Gregg R. De Young
  7. Epidemic Curves From Two Geometrical Perspectives by M.E. Kahil
  8. The Bayesian Controversy: Can logical thinking include personal opinion?
  9. The Mathematics of Knots by Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot
  10. Graph Theory and Applications by Dr. Brian Lucena
  11. "Egyptian Mathematics" by Dr. Gregg R. DeYoung

Documentaries Reviewed
An Inconvenient Truth, Oscar® winning documentary

Games Translated:

1-Deep Space
2-4 In A Wheel
3-Kingo Kongo
4-Little Firefighter
5-KungFu Academy
6-Treasures of Montezuma
7-3Cups
8-CardOmen
9-Pyro
10-Digiwallet
11-Ticker
12-Tower defense
13-Café Spades
14-Ludo and Friends
15-BRAVEHEART - The Official Mobile Game
16-Chocolate Shop Frenzy
17-Catan - The First Island
18-Tony Hawk's Project 8
19-Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
20-The Witcher – Crimson Trail
21-Shifters
22-Ingenious
23-Oban Star Racers
24-Zum-zum
25-Crash Arena
26-HappyNeuron
27-Aces of the Luftwaffe
28-Felix2
29-Carnival Games 12-Pack
30-Arena of Doom
31-Zalastar
32-Guns, Wheels & Madheads 2
33-SpongeBob: Paparazzi Parade
34-Expense Tracker
35-Stone Age Vengeance
36-Penguins
37-Extreme Air Snowboarding
38-Santa’s Tower Bloxx
39-Crazy Penguin Catapult
40-Christmas Toyland
41-The Penguin Menace reloaded
42-My Model Train 2 - Winter Edition
43-Santa Claus Express
44-Ali The Penguin
45-X-Mas Puzzle
46-V-penguins
47-Smile Lines: Winter Season
48-Ski Jumping Platinum 2008
49-Alpine Challenge 2
50-Christmas Mystery
51-Pictoplay Plus
52-Comic Blast
Articles Translated:

The Plight of Egyptian Bahá’ís
Nuclear Weapons
Translation of chapters from Tārīkh al-ustādh al-Imām al-Shaykh Muhammad Abduh by Muammad Rashīd Riā
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

-Gates 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
-In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos,
Guided Tour of Alexandria, the Capital of Memory
-From the Nave to the Cave, Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
-Ride with Your Guide

Specialized Tours

The City of the Zabbaleen
Hydrologic Tour of the Nile Delta

Tours


Led more than 100 tour groups from 2004 to present:

Seton Hall Law Program, Faculty and Students
The American University in Cairo
Princeton University
Cambridge University
American Embassy
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
Ian Davison, Managing Director of Earthmoves Ltd
Julia E. Marshall, Editor for the Oxford English Dictionary
Durham University
Rudy Wenk, Professor of Geology, University of California
University of Minnesota
Leiden University
Penguin Group
Judge Mary Davis
Dr. Richard D. Lewis, author of When Cultures Collide
University of South Alabama
San Francisco State University
University of Memphis
University of California, Berkeley
Temple University
The College of William & Mary
League of Arab States
United Nations
Helwan University
Cairo University
University of Massachusetts Boston
American International School in Egypt
Florida State University
University of Greenwich
University of Sydney
Western Michigan University
Northwestern University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Arkansas
HSBC
Egypt Air Horus Magazine
University of Toronto
London School of Economics
University of Kentucky
United World College of the Atlantic
Rolex
Syracuse University
The University of Palermo
Nalco Company
Seattle Pacific University
University of Ulster
Griffith University
Mona Almaraghi, Presenter
New York University
Progress 2
Ahmed Seddik has teamed with the following distinguished scholars during his tours and lectures:


Dr. Jerry Leach
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
Costanza la Mantia, PhD in Urban and Regional Planning

Ahmed Seddik has been introduced by:

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. Jerry Leach, Director of the American Studies Center
Bill Barazzuol, Vice President of the Egyptology
Sawy, Founder of Sawy Culturewheel and former Minister of Culture

Frequently Given Tours (FGT):

Cairo Museum
Pyramids
Coptic Cairo
Islamic Cairo
El-Fayoum
Karnak
Alexandria

Tutoring and Teaching

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 American students for GRE exams
Tutored a few high school students
Tutored PowerPoint
Tutored Math
Tutored one of his high school teachers in Classic Arabic
Cairo American College
Teaching the Oxford Latin Course
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, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

Introduced Dr. Zahi Hawass when he spoke at Ewart Memorial Hall on 18th April, 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
Citizen Journalism


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
Language Exchange

Writing

-Egyptology in the Making, City Magazine
-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 is a member of the digerati:
maintains Arabic and English blogs:
http://seddikism.blogspot.com/
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, XING, Ecademy, …

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, Naguib Mahfouz Biographer
Nigel J. Hetherington‎, the owner & founder of Past Preservers
Robert Lee Jones, Professor of Photography and Visual Communication
Christopher McLaverty

Hobbies

1-Horseback Riding
2-Running
3-Rock Climbing
4-Biking
5-Sailing
6-Walking

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

My Biology Teachers:

1-Dr. Andrew Main
2-Dr. Jeffrey Dean Miller

My Mathematics Teachers:

1-Dr. Michel Hébert
2-Dr. Mina B. Abd-el-Malek
3-Dr. Ali Hadi
4-Dr. Brian Lucena
5-Dr. Gregg DeYoung
6-Dr. Magdi Moustafa
7-Dr. Mark Werner
8-Dr. Ryan Derby-Talbot
9-Dr. Sarah Pingrey
10-Dr. Muhammed Youssef

My Physics Teachers:

1-Dr. Abdel-Khalek Farid
2-Dr. Karim Addas

My Geology Teachers:

1-Dr. Hany Hamroush

My Philosophy Teachers:

1-Dr. Ernest Wolf-Gazo
2-Dr. Steffen Stelzer
3-Dr. Robert Switzer
4-Dr. Rondo Keele

My Egyptology Teachers:

1-Dr. Zahi Hawass
2-Dr. John Swanson
3-Dr. Fayza Haikal
4-Dr. Melinda Hartwig
5-Dr. Alain Zivie
6-Dr. Lisa Sabbahy
7-Dr. Mohamed Sherif
8-Dr. Roger Shaler Bagnall
9-Dr. Salima Ikram

My Anthropology Teachers:

1-Dr. Nicholas A. Hopkins
2-Dr. Jerry Leach

My Law Teachers:

1-Professor Bernard K Freamon
2-George Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Uni.
3-Professor Simone Monasebian
4-Professor Sherman Jackson
5-Professor Makdisi
6-Judge Mary Davis

My English Literature Teachers:

1-Doris Shoukri
2-Richard Hoath
3-Gian Balsamo
4-Bill Barazzuol

My Journalism Teachers:

1-Robert Jones
2-Scott Macleod
3-Michael Buchannon
4-Samah Soula
5-Erin George
6-Helena Merriman
7-Andrew England
8-Terry McCarthy
9-Nathalie Gallet
10-Jens Franssen

Work in Progress

Book: the Art of Guiding, the Guide of All Guides
Article: Islam and the Environment, co-authored with Professor Jerry Leach
Audio Books of Ahmed Shawqi, Naguib Mahfouz and Arabic Teaching
Translating El-Sawy's Articles

Languages:

English: native tongue
Arabic: native tongue
Latin
Ancient Egyptian

Inventions
Seddikisms

Future Plans

Launching the Ahmed Seddik Scholarship for Studying Translation at AUC
Arabic Grammar Debate
Ahmed Seddik Prize for Excellence

Titles:

Arabic’s Leading Ambassador to the English Speaking World
The Curator of the Lexicographic Museum
The Wizard of Ancient Egypt
Zahi Hawass Junior
Ahmed Zewail Junior
King of Guides
King of Words

Lectures and Conferences Attended:

1-THE FAYUM HERITAGE CONSORTIUM by WILLEKE WENDRICH
2-ZONES OF TRANSITION by MICHAEL JONES
3-EES Explores Nubia: A Million Years of Archaeology
4-CONFERENCE ON HUMAN REMAINS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
5- AKHENATEN'S PALACES AT AMARNA by PROFESSOR BARRY KEMP
6-Google Day
7-Einstein Symposium, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
8-COMSOL

أحمد صديق
سيرة الكاتب والمؤلف والمترجم والشاعر والقصاص والمحاضر وعالم المصريات وسفير اللغة العربية
"كل عصر برجال وسير"

عالم مصريات مصري, ولد في القاهرة, في 25 فبراير عام 1980. تلقى مباديء المصريات بالجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, تتلمذ على أيدي جيل من الرواد, وعلى رأسهم العالم الكبير الدكتور زاهي حواس.

تولى رئاسة رابطة المصريات بالجامعة الأمريكية. له أكثر من خمس سلاسل من المحاضرات, أبرزها سلسلة فرعونيات, يعيد بها قراءة التاريخ بعيون مصرية

اشتغل بالترجمة فهو يترجم لمجلة التايم الأمريكية ولكوكبة من العلماء والمفكرين ومن ثم تلقب بسفير اللغة العربية

== من محاضراته ==


*من هارون الرشيد إلى حجر رشيد
*من العارفين بالفراعين
*اللوح الإلهي
*رمسيس, ما أعظمك وأنت قادم إلى قادش
*كسنوحي لن تهدأ روحي
*الموسيقى في مصر الفرعونية
*ذهب توت, كشف الكشوف
*ليلة هيروغليفية
*الوصف الكامل لكاملة الأوصاف
*إشرافة من مشرفية
*هات الوليمة من مصر القديمة
*مصر اليونان في مرآة الزمان
*الزمن من امحوتب إلى أحمد زويل
*مداخل الخلفاء إلى واجهة الوجهاء
*أنا المقدوني لن تصدوني
*فن الدولة في دولة الفن
*نسمة رسمة بسمة
*مشاهد الهداية من زمن البداية
*من خمواس إلى حواس
*قصة حياة الليمون
*أمير القوافي في قبر توت
*أينشتين وعبرة من إبرة
*الفن والتلقاء لإتقان الإلقاء
*نوافذ نفاذ نفوذ
*أحمد شوقي في فرنسا
*الأندلس من العرش إلى النعش
*شوقي شاعر الأطفال
*أم كلثوم مع حافظ إبراهيم وأحمد شوقي
*شوقي شاعر الحكمة
*شوقي شاعر المصريات
*شوقي من الكرمة إلى الكرامة
*أحمد شوقي في أنس الوجود
*فتح مدينة الإعراب
*القانون في مصر القديمة
*اللون في مصر القديمة
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Egyptologist and Filmmaker

Ahmed Seddik leads tours in Egypt for distinguished delegations and manages important productions for BBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, National Geograp...