الأربعاء، 21 مارس 2012

Tours of Cairo and Egypt in March and April 2012

Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*

A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Friday, 23 March, 2012 at 5:55 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/135220146606227/

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
scents, sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between
ancient Egypt and modern Egypt. This is the story of the rise and fall
of the Islamic Empire.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah (Boxmakers)
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid (Commander of the Army)
Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.
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Tour of Cairo Graffiti

Sunday, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:00 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/265900413493597/

Post-Revolution Cairo is rife with graffiti gracing its walls to
extoll and reflect on the potent political events that are shaping
Egypt and the region. Explore, interpret and photograph the graceful,
gargantuan graffiti in Cairo!
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The Story of Silence

Lecture by Ahmed Seddik

29 March at 6 pm

Refreshments will be served

http://www.facebook.com/events/341776979197573/

Word Hall, Sawy Culturewheel

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To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria

In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos

By Ahmed Seddik

Friday, 30 March 2012

07:00 a.m.  ----- 5:00 p.m.

From sunrise to sunset

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/329408903774105/

We will be visiting:

The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey's Pillar
The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina

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Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs

“Let Stone Set the Tone”

Saturday, 31 March, 2012

at 8 a.m.

www.AhmedSeddik.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/195745140528343/

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

"The glorious ground around the mound abounds with countless reliefs
revealing the site's majestic nature through a hieroglyphic
signature." --- Ahmed Seddik

Monuments we are likely to see and/or explore:

Tomb of the Manicurists and Pedicurists of the King
The Valley Temple of King Unas
The Step Pyramid Complex
The Oldest Museum Label
Ancient Egyptian Graffiti
The Philosophers' Circle
The Museum of Imhotep
The Pyramid of Userkaf
Tomb of Mereruka
Tomb of Kagemni
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Teti
Tomb of Ti

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
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Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt

Saturday, 7 April, at 7 am

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/267544069993449/

"Cool are the dawns, tall are the trees, many are the fruits, little
are the rains."
Abu 'Uthman al-Nabulsi Former Governor of The Fayoum

The sites that we are planning to explore:

The Graeco-Roman City of Karanis (Kom Oshim)
Quick visit of Fayoum Museum (most likely closed)
The Village of Tunis, the St Ives of Egypt
Medinet El-Fayoum, the Venice of Egypt
Lake Qarun (the Birka)
The Water Wheels (Al-Sawaqi)

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Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara

Monday, 9 April

at 9 a.m.

http://www.facebook.com/events/152736974848435/
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Mathematical Tour of Giza Pyramids

Friday, 13 April, 2012 at 8:00 a.m.

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/204485006324476/

Travel to unravel the enchanting ancient chain of events that led to
the evolution of the problems that defined the mathematics of the
ancient Egyptians. Join Ahmed Seddik as he tracks the course of
Egyptian mathematics through pyramids to lure children to dig
mathematical ideas. This tour includes the standard explanation of
the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx as well.
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Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*

A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Saturday, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:29 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
scents, sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between
ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.

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Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)

Saturday, 14 April, 2012 at 10 a.m

http://www.facebook.com/events/342312182482262/

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

The scintillating City of the Dead, anecdotally known as Al-Qarafa, is
so full of life and amenities that if you sum, you realize it is more
town than slum. We will be able to label the fabled vast necropolis
and feast our eyes on monuments glorious from the City Victorious.
True to the vision of some of its founders, the City of the Dead has
the power to entertain the mind and retain the body. Around 100,000
Cairenes live here amongst the dead. At the pinnacle of Islamic art,
the monuments are architected to articulate the vision of the stellar
dweller. Picnic among the graves in the City Beyond the Walls!

We attempt to see:

Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Sir Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Compound of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Chinese Tomb
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Summary of Upcoming Tours:

Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame, a Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
Journey with the Attorney, Legal Tour of Islamic Cairo
Tour of the City of Zabbaleen, Garbage Collectors
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Tour of the Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz
Mathematical Tour of Giza Pyramids
Tour of Paris Along the Nile
Astronomical Tour of Egypt
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Tour of the Manial Islnd
Tour of Cairo Museum
Tour of Cairo Graffiti
Tour of Zamalek
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الأحد، 11 مارس 2012

Tours of Cairo and Egypt in March and April 2012

Summary of Upcoming Tours:

Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame, a Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Mathematical Tour of Giza Pyramids
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Tour of Cairo Museum
Tour of Cairo Graffiti
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Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids

Khufu
Khafre
Quarries
Menkaure
Panorama
Mastaba Tombs
The Great Sphinx

Monday 12 March 2012

12 P.M. (Noon)

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Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt

Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10 a.m.

The Hanging Church (Al-Muallaka)
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
The Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Coptic Cemetery
The Coptic Museum
The Mosque of Amr Ibn El-As
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Tour of Cairo Museum

Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 10 a.m.

The Locus of the Lost Lotus
Old Kingdom (Zoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Sahure...)
The First Revolution
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Napoleon of Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Dazzling Sun
Akhenatun, the Heretic King
The Boy King Tutankhamun
Ramses the Great
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
News Bulletins of Antiquity
Women in Ancient Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare)
Animal Mummies
Love Poetry

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Walking Arabic Classroom

15 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Tour of Cairo Graffiti

Friday, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:04 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

Post-Revolution Cairo is rife with graffiti gracing its walls to
extoll and reflect on the potent political events that are shaping
Egypt and the region. Explore, interpret and photograph the graceful,
gargantuan graffiti in Cairo!
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Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara

Friday, 16 March 2012

at 9 a.m.

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Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt

Saturday, 17 March, at 7 am

The sites that we are planning to explore:

The Graeco-Roman City of Karanis (Kom Oshim)
Quick visit of Fayoum Museum (most likely closed)
The Village of Tunis, the St Ives of Egypt
Medinet El-Fayoum, the Venice of Egypt
Lake Qarun (the Birka)
The Water Wheels (Al-Sawaqi)
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Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt

Lecture by Ahmed Seddik

Sunday, 18 March, 2012

6 p.m. Zamalek
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Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*

A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Tuesday, 20 March, 2012 at 6:00 pm (Sunset)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.
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Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt

Friday 23 March, 2012

at 7 a.m.

Ahmed Seddik

We attempt to see:

Beni Hassan:

Tombs of the governors and officials of the 11th and 12th dynasty

Tomb of Bakhet III

Tomb of Khnumhotep II

Tomb of Khety

Tomb of Amenemhet

City of Minya

Tuna el-Jebel: Tomb and Chapel of Isadora

El-Ashmunein: (Hermopolis Magna)

Tell-el-Amarna: Akhenaten's capital city

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The Story of Silence

Lecture by Ahmed Seddik

29 March at 6 pm

Word Hall, Sawy Culturewheel
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To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria

In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos

By Ahmed Seddik

Friday, 30 March 2012

07:00 a.m.  ----- 5:00 p.m.

From sunrise to sunset

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

We will be visiting:

The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey's Pillar
The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina


For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
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Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs

“Let Stone Set the Tone”

Saturday, 31 March, 2012

at 8 a.m.

www.AhmedSeddik.com

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

"The glorious ground around the mound abounds with countless reliefs
revealing the site's majestic nature through a hieroglyphic
signature." Ahmed Seddik

Monuments we are likely to see and/or explore:

Tomb of the Manicurists and Pedicurists of the King
The Valley Temple of King Unas
The Step Pyramid Complex
The Oldest Museum Label
The Philosophers' Circle
Ancient Egyptian Graffiti
The Museum of Imhotep
The Pyramid of Userkaf
Tomb of Mereruka
Tomb of Kagemni
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Teti
Tomb of Ti

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
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Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor

Museum of Mummification
Valley of the Queens
Queen Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings
Museum of Luxor
Karnak Temple

Ahmed Seddik

6 and 7 April, 2012

10 am
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Mathematical Tour of Giza Pyramids

Friday, 13 April, 2012 at 8:00 a.m.

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

Travel to unravel the enchanting ancient chain of events that led to
the evolution of the problems that defined the mathematics of the
ancient Egyptians. Join Ahmed Seddik as he tracks the course of
Egyptian mathematics through pyramids to lure children to dig
mathematical ideas. This tour includes the standard explanation of
the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx as well.
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Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*

A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Saturday, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:29 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
scents, sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between
ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.

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Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)

Saturday, 14 April, 2012 at 10 a.m

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

The scintillating City of the Dead, anecdotally known as Al-Qarafa, is
so full of life and amenities that if you sum, you realize it is more
town than slum. We will be able to label the fabled vast necropolis
and feast our eyes on monuments glorious from the City Victorious.
True to the vision of some of its founders, the City of the Dead has
the power to entertain the mind and retain the body. Around 100,000
Cairenes live here amongst the dead. At the pinnacle of Islamic art,
the monuments are architected to articulate the vision of the stellar
dweller. Picnic among the graves in the City Beyond the Walls!

We attempt to see:

Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Sir Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Compound of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Chinese Tomb
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Tours of Cairo and Egypt in March and April 2012

Summary of Upcoming Tours:

Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame, a Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Mathematical Tour of Giza Pyramids
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Tour of Cairo Museum
Tour of Cairo Graffiti
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Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids

Khufu
Khafre
Quarries
Menkaure
Panorama
Mastaba Tombs
The Great Sphinx

Monday 12 March 2012

12 P.M. (Noon)

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Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt

Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10 a.m.

The Hanging Church (Al-Muallaka)
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
The Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Coptic Cemetery
The Coptic Museum
The Mosque of Amr Ibn El-As
----------------------
Tour of Cairo Museum

Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 10 a.m.

The Locus of the Lost Lotus
Old Kingdom (Zoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Sahure...)
The First Revolution
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Napoleon of Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Dazzling Sun
Akhenatun, the Heretic King
The Boy King Tutankhamun
Ramses the Great
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
News Bulletins of Antiquity
Women in Ancient Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare)
Animal Mummies
Love Poetry

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Walking Arabic Classroom

15 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Tour of Cairo Graffiti

Friday, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:04 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

Post-Revolution Cairo is rife with graffiti gracing its walls to
extoll and reflect on the potent political events that are shaping
Egypt and the region. Explore, interpret and photograph the graceful,
gargantuan graffiti in Cairo!
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Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara

Friday, 16 March 2012

at 9 a.m.

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Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt

Saturday, 17 March, at 7 am

The sites that we are planning to explore:

The Graeco-Roman City of Karanis (Kom Oshim)
Quick visit of Fayoum Museum (most likely closed)
The Village of Tunis, the St Ives of Egypt
Medinet El-Fayoum, the Venice of Egypt
Lake Qarun (the Birka)
The Water Wheels (Al-Sawaqi)
--------------------------------------------
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt

Lecture by Ahmed Seddik

Sunday, 18 March, 2012

6 p.m. Zamalek
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Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*

A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Tuesday, 20 March, 2012 at 6:00 pm (Sunset)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.
------------------------------

Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt

Friday 23 March, 2012

at 7 a.m.

Ahmed Seddik

We attempt to see:

Beni Hassan:

Tombs of the governors and officials of the 11th and 12th dynasty

Tomb of Bakhet III

Tomb of Khnumhotep II

Tomb of Khety

Tomb of Amenemhet

City of Minya

Tuna el-Jebel: Tomb and Chapel of Isadora

El-Ashmunein: (Hermopolis Magna)

Tell-el-Amarna: Akhenaten's capital city

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The Story of Silence

Lecture by Ahmed Seddik

29 March at 6 pm

Word Hall, Sawy Culturewheel
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To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria

In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos

By Ahmed Seddik

Friday, 30 March 2012

07:00 a.m.  ----- 5:00 p.m.

From sunrise to sunset

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

We will be visiting:

The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey's Pillar
The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina


For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
---------------------------------
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs

“Let Stone Set the Tone”

Saturday, 31 March, 2012

at 8 a.m.

www.AhmedSeddik.com

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

"The glorious ground around the mound abounds with countless reliefs
revealing the site's majestic nature through a hieroglyphic
signature." Ahmed Seddik

Monuments we are likely to see and/or explore:

Tomb of the Manicurists and Pedicurists of the King
The Valley Temple of King Unas
The Step Pyramid Complex
The Oldest Museum Label
The Philosophers' Circle
The Museum of Imhotep
The Pyramid of Userkaf
Tomb of Mereruka
Tomb of Kagemni
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Teti
Tomb of Ti

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
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Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor

Museum of Mummification
Valley of the Queens
Queen Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings
Museum of Luxor
Karnak Temple

Ahmed Seddik

6 and 7 April, 2012

10 am
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Mathematical Tour of Giza Pyramids

Friday, 13 April, 2012 at 8:00 a.m.

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

Travel to unravel the enchanting ancient chain of events that led to
the evolution of the problems that defined the mathematics of the
ancient Egyptians. Join Ahmed Seddik as he tracks the course of
Egyptian mathematics through pyramids to lure children to dig
mathematical ideas. This tour includes the standards explanation of
the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx as well.
------------------------------\

Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*

A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Saturday, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:29 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
scents, sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between
ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)

Saturday, 14 April, 2012 at 10 a.m

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

The scintillating City of the Dead, anecdotally known as Al-Qarafa, is
so full of life and amenities that if you sum, you realize it is more
town than slum. We will be able to label the fabled vast necropolis
and feast our eyes on monuments glorious from the City Victorious.
True to the vision of some of its founders, the City of the Dead has
the power to entertain the mind and retain the body. Around 100,000
Cairenes live here amongst the dead. At the pinnacle of Islamic art,
the monuments are architected to articulate the vision of the stellar
dweller. Picnic among the graves in the City Beyond the Walls!

We attempt to see:

Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Sir Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Compound of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Chinese Tomb
------------------------------------------

الأحد، 4 مارس 2012

Tours of Cairo and Egypt in March and April 2012

Summary of Upcoming Tours:

Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame, a Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tour of Cairo Museum
Tour of the City of Rosetta

------------------------------
----------------------
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island

Mix of monuments and nature

Monday, 5 March, 7 a.m.

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
-------------------------------------
Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*
A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo

Ahmed Seddik

Tuesday, 6 March, 2012 at 6:00 AM (Sunrise)

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.

List of what we might or might not see during our tour:

Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Gamaliyya
Wekalat Qaitbey
Haret Alotoof
El-Jashankir Mosque
Kasr Alshok
Al Mashhad Al Husseini

*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.
------------------------------
---------------------

Walking Arabic Classroom

Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Tour of Cairo Museum

Friday, 9 March 2012 at 10 a.m.

The Locus of the Lost Lotus
Old Kingdom (Zoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Sahure...)
The First Revolution
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Napoleon of Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Dazzling Sun
Akhenatun, the Heretic King
The Boy King Tutankhamun
Ramses the Great
The Plastic Bag of Antiquity
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
News Bulletins of Antiquity
Women in Ancient Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare)
Animal Mummies
Love Poetry

----------------------------------------------------
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo

by Ahmed Seddik

Friday 9 March 2012 at 2 p.m.

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

-------------------------------------------
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)

Saturday, 10 March, 2012 at 10 a.m

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

The scintillating City of the Dead is so full of life and amenities that,
if you sum, you realize it is more town than slum. We will be able to
label the fabled vast necropolis and feast our eyes on monuments
glorious from the City Victorious. True to the vision of some of its
founders, the City of the Dead has the power to entertain the mind and
retain the body.

Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Ahmed Hassanein, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Japanese Tomb
------------------------------------------
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids

Khufu
Khafre
Quarries
Menkaure
Panorama
Mastaba Tombs
The Great Sphinx

Monday 12 March 2012

12 P.M. (Noon)

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Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt

Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10 a.m.

The Hanging Church (Al-Muallaka)
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
The Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Coptic Cemetery
The Coptic Museum
The Mosque of Amr Ibn El-As
----------------------
Walking Arabic Classroom

15 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara

Friday, 16 March 2012

at 9 a.m.

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Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt

Saturday, 17 March, at 7 am

The sites that we are planning to explore:

The Graeco-Roman City of Karanis (Kom Oshim)
Quick visit of Fayoum Museum (most likely closed)
The Village of Tunis, the St Ives of Egypt
Medinet El-Fayoum, the Venice of Egypt
Lake Qarun (the Birka)
The Water Wheels (Al-Sawaqi)
--------------------------------------------
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt

Lecture by Ahmed Seddik

Sunday, 18 March, 2012

6 p.m. Zamalek
-------------------------------------------

Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt

Friday 23 March, 2012

at 7 a.m.

Ahmed Seddik

We attempt to see:

Beni Hassan:

Tombs of the governors and officials of the 11th and 12th dynasty

Tomb of Bakhet III

Tomb of Khnumhotep II

Tomb of Khety

Tomb of Amenemhet

City of Minya

Tuna el-Jebel: Tomb and Chapel of Isadora

El-Ashmunein: (Hermopolis Magna)

Tell-el-Amarna: Akhenaten's capital city

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To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria

In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos

By Ahmed Seddik

Friday, 30 March 2012

07:00 a.m.  ----- 5:00 p.m.

From sunrise to sunset

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

We will be visiting:

The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey's Pillar
The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina


For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
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Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs

“Let Stone Set the Tone”

Saturday, 31 March, 2012

at 8 a.m.

www.AhmedSeddik.com

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

Monuments we are likely to see and/or explore:

Tomb of the Manicurists and Pedicurists of the King
The Valley Temple of King Unas
The Step Pyramid Complex
The Oldest Museum Label
The Philosophers' Circle
The Museum of Imhotep
The Pyramid of Userkaf
Tomb of Mereruka
Tomb of Kagemni
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Teti
Tomb of Ti

For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
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Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor

Museum of Mummification
Valley of the Queens
Queen Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings
Museum of Luxor
Karnak Temple

Ahmed Seddik

6 and 7 April

10 am
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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...