Ahmed Seddik: Egyptologist, Lecturer, Translator, Editor, Media Producer and Tour Guide

Summary: 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 ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------ Walking Arabic Classroom Thursday 1st of March, 2012 at 7 p.m. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------- Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qaraf

Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs “Let Stone Set the Tone” Wednesday 29 February, 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 ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------- Walking Arabic Classroom Thursday 1st of March, 2012 at 7 p.m. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------- Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa) La Città dei Morti Friday 2nd March 2012 at 6:30 a.m. For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69

To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos By Ahmed Seddik Tuesday, 21 February 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 Circassian Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and attend Prof. Barry Kemp's magnificent lecture about the ِAncient City of Tell el-Amarna: its past and its future (Lecture sponsored by Bibliotheca Alexandrina & the Egypt Exploration Society) For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com --------------------------------- An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island Mix of monuments and nature Wednesday, 22 February, 7 a.m. For reservation: call: 0100-67-68

Gates of Glory and Facades of Fame A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo Ahmed Seddik Friday, 17 February, 2012 at 6:34 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 facades of fame lie unique stories of rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or small, in the march o

Shine from the Shrine:Walking Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa) Friday, 10 February, 2012 at 10 a.m For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com We will be able to label the fabled vast necropolis and feast our eyes on monuments glorious from the City Victorious: Mamelukes St. Mausoleum of Ahmed Hassanein, Author of the Lost Oases Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex 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 -----------------