Where Passion Meets Education
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development
Fekri A. Hassan Foundation
Where Passion Meets Education
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development
Fekri A. Hassan Foundation
Welcome to advances in egyptology
Introductory Statement
Advances in Egyptology is a series of online short courses by international Egyptian scholars who are making important contributions to Egyptological studies. Signaling the consolidation of an Egyptian perspective, these courses are an initial step toward a forum for dealing with Egyptology from a new perspective that embeds traditional approaches in an integrated theoretical framework whereby Ancient Egypt is a resilient dynamic society with a particular form of polity where royal power legitimized by divine ideology strives to maintain order in a world of chaos. That ancient society is an integral element of our world collective memory and is still entangled with many of contemporary world issues.
Today, Egyptian language and script compel us to contemplate how language relates to logic and the presentation of ideas as a means of intersubjective communication and world knowledge. Egyptian art makes us think of how art embodies our world view and contributes to changing it. Current debates on bodies and identity may also benefit from the examination of ancient Egyptian bodies with modern techniques.
Ancient Egypt is one of humanity’s most remarkable and precocious experiments in how large diversified human groups can manage to sustain a society in the face of social unrest, environmental challenges, threats from neighboring societies and existential angst. Beyond exoticism, cheap thrills, passing infatuation, titillating anecdotes and superficial curiosity, “Advances in Egyptology” aims to unveil what Schiller[1]in his “Das verschleierte Bild zu Saïs” (The Veild Image at Sais)" was impatient to find out in 1795.
[1] https://archive.org/details/cu31924075748529/page/n97/mode/2up, pp.
Advances In Egyptology - LATEST NEWS
XIII International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) Conference, Leiden 2023
Congratulations to our dear Dr. Tarek Tawfik for being elected as President of the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) and to Professor Dr. Ola El Aguizy for her award of honorary membership to the Association.
MEET The professors
Professor Dr. Fekri A. Hassan
Professor Fekri Hassan is Emeritus Petrie Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London, where he taught from 1994 to 2003. Before that he taught at Washington State University (1975-1994). He is currently Director of Cultural Heritage Management at the French University in Egypt, in collaboration with Paris 1 Sorbonne-Pantheon. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Methodist University (1973).
Professor Hassan pioneered in the fields of Predynastic Egypt geoarchaeology, demographic archaeology, climate change, water history and archaeological theory. He has led numerous archaeological expeditions since 1975. He is currently committed to cultural heritage management and development. He served as Vice-President of WAC, World Archaeology Congress (1998-2002) and was President of the International Water History Association (IWHA), and is Honorary President of Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisaton, UK. A festschrift entitled “ A River Runs Through It” in honor of Professor Hassan was published in 2019.
Associate Professor Dr. Tarek Sayed Tawfik
Dr. Tarek Sayed Tawfik Ahmed has a BA & MA of Egyptology from the Faculty of Archaeology Cairo University and a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Bonn, Germany. He serves as Director of the Centre for Archaeological Studies and International Heritage in Luxor, the former Director General of the Grand Egyptian Museum Project, where he still plays a key role as member of the High Committee of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities for Museums and Exhibition.
Dr. Tawfik is the Deputy Director of the Saqqara excavations of the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University. He is an Associate Professor of Egyptology at Faculty of Archaeology Cairo University; he is also a visiting professor at several major universities worldwide. Dr. Tawfik was elected Vice President of the International Association of Egyptologists November 2019. Dr. Tawfik has been a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) since 2014. Additionally, he is a vice president of the International Council of Museums in Egypt (ICOM).
Dr. Tawfik was recently elected as President of the International Association of Egyptologists at the ICE XIII Conference in Leiden 2023.
Professor Dr. Ola El Aguizy
Professor Dr. Ola El Aguizy is an Egyptian Egyptologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cairo. An expert in Demotic, she has published widely on the language. Since 2005 she has led excavations at Saqqara, uncovering the tombs of several notable figures connected to Ramesses II. In 2015 her colleagues presented her with a Festschrift entitled Mélanges offerts à Ola el-Aguizy.
El Aguizy graduated with an MA in Archaeology from the University of Cairo in 1978, and subsequently graduated from the same institution with a PhD in 1985. Her interest in archaeology began as an undergraduate, where she specialized in ancient Egyptian languages. She started working at Cairo University in 1970, first as an assistant, then as a lecturer. In the 1980s and 1990s, she regularly participated in the International Conference on Demotic Studies. In 2002 she became head of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities and in 2003 Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology. In 2006 she was appointed Professor of Egyptian Languages, a role she held until 2008, when she became Emeritus Professor.
Professor Dr. Sahar Saleem
Professor Dr. Sahar Saleem is a professor of radiology at Cairo University, where she specializes in paleoradiology, the use of radiology to study mummies. She discovered the knife wound in the throat of Ramesses III which was most likely the cause of his death.
Sahar Saleem received her degree in medicine from Qasr El Eyni Hospital, Cairo. Subsequently, she went on to receive both her master's and medical doctorate in radiology, from Cairo University. She moved to Canada to do a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroradiology, and a fellowship in radiology education at the University of Western Ontario, before returning to Cairo University, where she is currently a professor of radiology.
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