Walking Tour of the Island of Zamalek

Monday, 25th of August at 5:30 p.m.

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May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness. Words worthy of reciting in a royal garden delineated in harmonious hieroglyphs carved around the aromatic rim of the wishing cup of the boy King Tutankhamen well over 3000 years ago. To make his wish come true, the cup cuts the figure of an open lotus flower. From the dawn of Egyptian civilization, the lotus flower stood for rebirth and resurrection. President Nasser borrowed the plant for his plan upon raising the famous Cairo tower, emulating a lotus flower in the heart of Zamalek. In the wee small hours of the morning an Egyptian lily opened. Later in the day it closed. This Lillian observation of the sun led the Egyptian, who once upon a time was a keen observant of nature, to believe that lotus was a hieroglyph for rebirth and renaissance. Nasser's emulation of a lotus flower in his tower was meant to capture this Egyptian philosophy. Nasser was the new pharaoh and he was being given credit for an Egyptian renaissance. A man, a plan and a plant. That is the order of this tour. Stories of villas, palaces, and gardens from the royalty and the republic

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Walking Tour of Giza Pyramids, Temples and Tombs

Your Visa To Giza

Thursday, 28th of August at 7:00 a.m.

Pyramid of Khufu

Pyramid of Khafre

Pyramid of Menkaure

Pyramids of the Queens

Khufu's Boat

Tomb of Idu, Overseer of the Construction of the Great Pyramid

Tomb of Qar (G 7101)

The Sphinx

The Valley Temple of King Khafre

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Tour of the Egyptian Museum

Thursday, 28th of August at 1:00 p.m.

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Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo 

Thursday, 28th of August at 7:00 pm

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Tour of the Camel Market at Birqash (Souq Al-Gimaal)

Friday, 29th of August at 7:00 a.m.

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Walking Photographic Tour of the City of Alexandria

The Bride of the Mediterranean

In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos

Saturday, 30th of August at 7:00 a.m.

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The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey’s Pillar

The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey

The Ruinous Arab Walls of the Medieval City

The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa

The Royal Palace of Al-Montazah

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka

Al Qa’ed Ibrahim Mosque

Al Morsy Abuelabbas Mosque

Alabaseery Mosque

The Eastern Harbor

Ras el–Tin Palace

Ramleh Square

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Tour of the Suez-Canal-City of Port Said

Sunday, 31st of August at 8:00 a.m.

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Testimonials:

On ABC News:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/back-beginning-christiane-amanpour-moses-pharaoh-pharaoh-exodus-18086799

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In the lobby of the Egyptian Museum, Ahmed handed me his business card. Melek kelem, it read, in mirror-like Arabic script. This was no empty palindromic boast, I saw as soon as he started the ten-minute "preview' tour we'd arranged. Ahmed was indeed a Master of Speech, a Word Lord, even -- to stretch the effect into English -- an Emir of Rhyme. He had a dense and mesmerizing way of speaking, full of shifting rhythms and ridiculous puns. Ambling through the museum next to him felt more like jogging, trying to keep up with his ancient-Egyptian etymologies, mnemonics for hieroglyphics, and archaeology gossip.

Zora O'Neill, Travel Author.

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Witty and enthusiastic.

Arguto e pieno d'entusiasmo.

Lonely Planet

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In Ahmed we found not only an amazing producer, but a great resource for all things Egypt. His offhand knowledge of Egyptian history, of

pharaohs and antiquities, of hieroglyphics and pyramids is astounding. He can quote ancient Egyptian texts from memory. In many ways he was our tour guide and history professor on top of everything else.

Erin Lyall George

Producer

The CBS Evening News

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He is also particularly good at turning dry facts into fascinating anecdotes and was often able to entertain and educate us with

interesting stories about Egypt’s history. He is obviously passionate about the country, its history and culture.

Helena Merriman

Broadcast Journalist

BBC World Service

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His language skills, especially his knowledge of English, are absolutely first class and he has an ability to express himself in a manner that many native English speakers would find difficult to improve upon.

Michael Buchanan, Correspondent, BBC News

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“You are a student of the finer point of the English language.”

Hugh Sykes, BBC, the World at One

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My aim was to take a break with a cultural and historic character. And having Egyptologist and tour guide Ahmed Seddik as my companion made my adventure unforgettable.

Amira El-Naqeeb, Travel Writer

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The Digger Who Can Figure:

http://fnewsmagazine.com/2011/08/the-digger-who-can-figure/

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"His name is Ahmed Seddik and he is the most delightful, smart and funny person you can imagine. He loves languages and speaks incredible English. He talked continuously without notes of any kind during our tours of the temples at Saqqara, the Pyramids and tombs in Giza, Islamic Cairo, and the City of the Dead--not just providing fascinating and encyclopedic information, both historic and modern,

but peppering his monologue with puns and alliteration."

Caroline Moore

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“Ahmed Seddik is the brightest Egyptian I have met since I came to Egypt. I have found his Egyptological knowledge prodigious.”

Professor Jerry Leach

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Ahmed Seddik worked with me as a discussant on the translation of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s monumental mid-nineteenth-century work al-Saq ‘ala l-saq (Leg over Leg) during 2012 and 2013, a work widely considered among the most linguistically challenging of Arabic texts in view of its use of little-known words, word-play and puns, and complex grammar. I reviewed and discussed in depth with Ahmed most of the cruxes of the text and benefited enormously from his in-put. His knowledge of Arabic grammar, verse, and the Quran is encyclopedic and his ability to untangle the contortions imposed from time to time on the language of the book by the constraints of verse and rhymed prose proved to be prodigious. Ahmed’s love of language in general and the Arabic language in particular made him the ideal partner in an enterprise of such a daunting nature. I can recommend him unreservedly to anyone involved in scholarly work involving the Arabic language arts.

Dr. Humphrey Davies