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

Walking Arabic Classroom, Tour to Learn Arabic! Tuesday, 25 September, 2012 at 5 p.m. For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~ Early to Rise Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame* AhmedSeddik.com Friday, 28th, September at 10 a.m. 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. 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. Se...

Early Bird Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame* AhmedSeddik.com Wednesday, 19 September, 2012 at 5:42 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. 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 uni...

September 13:  Dr. Rudolf de Jong Bedouin Dialects of the Sinai Desert Through the ages, the northern Sinai Desert has served as the natural land bridge between Asia and Africa. With the spread of Islam from the 7th century, speakers of Arabic came from the Arabian Peninsula and crossed into non-Arabic speaking regions like Egypt and farther west into North Africa. Today we find Bedouin tribes inhabiting the entire Sinai Peninsula. Most tribes arrived there during the Middle Ages and some even before Islam. The northern Sinai littoral today is identified as an area of transition: from the dialect of the tribes in the Negev Desert in the east, the transition is embodied by a number of dialect groups forming a continuum from the ‘Bedouin’ dialect type of Northwestern Arabic to the ‘sedentary’ dialect type of the eastern Nile Delta. Although more recent developments such as the completion of the Suez Canal and the creation of the state of Israel may blu...

Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo Friday, 7th September, at 7:00 AM For reservation: call: 0100-67-68- 2 -69 or email: ahmed . seddik @gmail.com The Revolutionary Tour of Cairo presents an eyewitness epic account of the rise and fall of a regime, the revolution and the revelations-- the decisive moments that led to the ultimate triumph of the power of the people and the demise of a tyrant. Through the architectural, sculptural and literary itinerary I shed a flood of light on the revolutionary figures in art, politics, economics, poetry and singing. They are the seminal influential figures who made Egypt revolutionable and the Egyptians susceptible to revolt. We start from Zamalek and end in Tahrir. Egypt is a gift of the Nile and the Egyptian freedom is a gift of Tahrir. Every time I give the Tahriri Tour -- from evolution to revolution -- I reload it as we, Egyptians, continue the struggle to eliminate the micro-Mubaraks from the sclerotic institu...