Wafaa El Saddik

Organizations: Museums
Professions: Archeologist, Director

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Former Director General of the Egyptian Museum

Wafaa El Saddik

1950

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


The Egyptian Museum

Tahrir Square

11557

Cairo

Egypt

egyptianmusemue@hotmail.com

Education


PhD, Egyptology and Archaeology, University of Vienna, 1983.

Post-BA study, Cairo University, 1972- 1974.

BA, Egyptology and Archaeology, Cairo University, 1972.

languages


Arabic

English

French

German

COMPETENCES


Archeology

Archaeological Excavation

Egyptology

WORK HISTORY


Director General, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Formerly.

Director General, Scientific Office, Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2003-2004.

Director General, Exhibitions Abroad Dept., Supreme Council of Antiquities.

President, Children's Alliance for Traditions and Social Engagement/ C.A.T.S. International.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, the Permanent Committee of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2004.

Member, the Supreme Council of Culture, 2004.

Productions and Works


Die Katze mit der Goldenen Maske: illustrated book for children, (monograph in preparation).

“Heliopolis,” a chapter for a book in preparation to published in French, 2010.

Journey to Immortality. English and Arabic editions, Cairo: SCA 2006.

Twenty-sixth Dynasty Necropolis at Gizeh: An analysis of the Tomb of Thery and its Place in the development of Saite Funerary art and Architecture.

Beiträge zur Ägyptologie 5; Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien 29. Vienna 1984 (an Arabic version, translated by Hassan Naser el- Dian was published in Cairo, 2007).

AWARDS


The Chinese Dedication Award for Cultural Exchange, 2009.

Golden Dove of Peace medal, presented in Cairo by the German ambassador to Egypt, 2007.

Medal in recognition of museological achievement, from the Panstwowe Archaeological Museum, Warsaw, 2007.