"Making El Fayoum Bloom" A Guided Tour of El Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt by Ahmed Seddik www.AhmedSeddik.com 06 October · 08:00 Bus leaves at 8:00 am For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com  ------------------------------ Gates of Glory and Facades of Fame A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo Ahmed Seddik Friday, 7 October, 2011 at 5:00 a.m. (Sunrise), For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com  ------------------------------ A Guided Tour of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [Tahrir Museum] By Amany Ahmed and Ahmed Seddik Friday, 7 October, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com  ------------------------------ Towering Tour of Cairo Meet at Cairo Tower Sunday, 09 October, 2011 at 5 p.m. For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com ------------------------------ Political Tour of Cairo, From Evolution to Revolution by Ahmed Seddik Monday, 10 October 5:30 p.m. http://www.ahmedseddik.com/ Phone: 0106768269 ------------------------------ "Let Stone Set the Tone" A Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs by Ahmed Seddik, www.AhmedSeddik.com 9 a.m. on Friday, the 14th of October  -------------------------- The First Tick in History The Story of Measuring Time Lecture by Ahmed Seddik Monday, 17 October · 6 p.m. El Sawy Culturewheel, Word Hall ------------------------------ Arabic Grammar Circle Run by Ahmed Seddik Tuesday 20 September · 20:00 - 22:00 Diwan, Zamalek ------------------------------ Ride with Your Guide! Friday, 21 October 17:00 - 19:00 Around Giza Pyramids on Camel  ------------------------------ Tour and Learn Arabic Sunday, 23 October, 2011 at 5 p.m. For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com ------------------------------ Walking Tour of Zamalek, the Garden of Plants By Ahmed Seddik Tuesday, 25 October - 5 p.m. ------------------------------ A Guided Tour of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [Tahrir Museum] By Ahmed Seddik Friday, 28 October · 10:00 - 13:00 For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com  ------------------------------ In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos A Guided Tour of Alexandria, the Capital of Memory By Ahmed Seddik 11 ----- 11 ---- 2011 Friday, 11 November · 07:00 - 20:00 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 Circassian Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey The Bibliotheca Alexandrina For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com ------------------------------ An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island By Ahmed Seddik, www.AhmedSeddik.com Friday, 04 November, 9 am For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com ------------------------------ A Tour of Wadi Natrun By Ahmed Seddik, www.AhmedSeddik.com Friday, 18 November, 8 am For reservation: call: 010-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com --------------------- |
The Amarna Archives: A Chapter in Clay
The Amarna Archives: A Chapter in Clay by Ahmed Seddik It was in the waning light of the nineteenth century—a time when scholars hunted knowledge as prospectors once hunted gold—that a handful of humble tablets, long buried in the bosom of Egypt, rose from the ashes of oblivion to speak in tongues foreign and familiar. These were no ordinary fragments of pottery or idle scribbles in dust. Nay, they were the stately scribes of diplomacy themselves, arrayed not in silk or scarlet, but in the baked and brittle clay of antiquity. Let us journey to the heart of Middle Egypt—to a place called Amarna, once the seat of a peculiar Pharaoh whose gaze was fixed not upon the gods of his fathers, but upon a singular sun that scorched tradition and stirred the heavens. It was here, amidst the ruins of Akhetaten—the horizon of Aten—that a farmer’s foot, like that of some ancient messenger, stumbled upon the secrets of empires past. The ground, as if weary of its age-old silence, yielded up its...
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