Prof. Dr. El-Nowieemy's Academia.edu

Prof. Dr. Magda El-Nowieemy's page in Academia with abstract of her works.

https://alex.academia.edu/MagdaElNowieemy 

Ali EL-Ghamry's Biography (1926-1993)

Searching the internet, I have found this biography (in Arabic) about one of our colleague in Ain Shams university, who is called Ali Mohamed El-Ghamry (Arabic:على محمد الغمرى ). The book giving this biography is;al-Zarkali,  al-'Alam, vol. 5, pp. 66-67(قاموس الأعلام للزركلى ، الجزء الخامس ، ص ص 66-67)

In Memoriam: Professor Ahmed Etman (1945–2013) by the Classical Receptions Journal, Oxford University Press.

The Obituary of the Prof. Dr. Ahmed Etman, by Lorna Hardwick

In Memoriam: Professor Ahmed Etman (1945–2013)
Classical Receptions Journal 2014 6: 175

In Memoriam: Professor Ahmed Etman (1945–2013)

We record with great sadness the death in August 2013 of Professor Ahmed Etman, who was from its inception a member of the International Advisory Board of the Classical Receptions Journal. Until his recent retirement, Ahmed Etman was a Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Cairo. He also served as Chairman of the Egyptian Society of Graeco-Roman Studies and the Egyptian Society of Comparative Literature. From the start of his career he had extensive interests in the comparative histories of classical texts, both within antiquity and subsequently. He was an international authority on the history of classical scholarship in Egypt and on the role of the transmission of Greek texts through Latin and Arabic translations. In recent years, he contributed extensively on those topics to conferences in the UK and other western European countries.

Ahmed Etman had special skills in setting up large projects and bringing them to fruition. A highlight of his career was his leadership over a period of six years of the team of scholars who translated Homer’s Iliad into Arabic. This prose translation was published in 2004 and was accompanied by the reissue of a paperback edition of Soliman El_Bostany’s popular 1904 verse translation. The publication of the new translation was marked by a conference in Cairo on ‘Translation and Cultural Interaction’. Professor Etman was then under considerable pressure to facilitate a translation into Arabic of Homer’s Odyssey and in the meantime devoted attention to overseeing translation into Arabic of recent Anglophone scholarship, the publication of which he planned to launch at a conference in Cairo in the spring of 2014.

In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Etman was also a playwright, working mainly from classical figures and themes. Several of his plays were broadcast on Egyptian radio. His Cleopatra Worships Peace (1984) was translated into English, French, Greek, and Italian and The Goats of Oxyrynchus into English and French. Most recently, his play A Belle in the Prison of Socrates was published in an English translation by Professor Fawzia El-Sadr (2008). The play took the figure of Socrates as ‘gadfly’ to the democracy, presenting a collage of ancient sources in a theatrical setting. It proved prescient in its phantasmagoria on the elusive presence of demokratia at a time of internal and external conflict in ancient Athens.

Ahmed Etman’s sadly premature death has cut short his plans to use his retirement to promote cross-cultural exchange through discussion of the histories of classical scholarship and translation. We shall miss his energy and humour and especially his courteously ironic and even-handed dismissal of simplistic polarities between ‘orientalism’ and ‘occidentalism’.

Program of the conference of Cairo 1-3 April 2014 (Ain Shams University)

This is the message recieved yesterday from Prof. Dr. Tarek M. Muhammad;

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please, open the attached file which contains the final program of the First International Conference on Christian Egypt: 'Thought and Culture in Egypt 284-641 AD." 

Please, feel free to forward it to whom it may concern.

with best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Tarek M. Muhammad

Professor Dr. of Medieval History (Byzantino-Islamic) 

Chairman of Journal of Medieval and Islamic History

Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo,

Egypt. Postal code 11566

e.mail: tarekmansour@art.asu.edu.eg

           tarekmansoureg@yahoo.com         

Cell.: +20 1286 186 162

Please visit: http://www.shams.edu.eg; http://jmih.zxq.net

Accent in Ancient Greek ( Arabic introduction: part 1)

The 2nd Circular of " Thought and Culture in Byzantine Egypt" 1st -3rd April 2014 ( Ain Shams University)

Prof. Dr. Tarek M. Muhammad, Professor of Medieval History (Byzantino-Islamic) in Ain Shams University, has kindly sent me the 2nd circular of the coming conference in Ain Shams University. An Image of the circular is attached to this post.

The Future of Classical Studies in Egypt by Prof. Dr. Tarek M. Radawn

Some years ago Prof. Dr. Tarek M. Radawn of Al-Azahar University had published an article entitled "The Computer, Modern Technologies and the Future of Classical Studies in Egypt", Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies ( Ain Shams Uuniversity), Vol. (?), pp. (?)  The article was intended as a guide to the Arabic student/research in the filed of Classics how to adjust his computer as well as his research for the digital age. No other work has since then addressed this problem ( in the Arabic sphere), therefore the Department of Greek and Latin Studies in Cairo university has produced an online version of this paper ( with some links to the stated websites) to maximize the availability of this valuable paper. The online version of this paper could be accessed through this link.

Homer's Iliad into Arabic verse !

Suleyman al-Boustani, the Lebanese statesman, teacher, poet and historian (1856–1925), has translated Homer's Iliad not simply into Arabic prose, but into Arabic verse. The translation is published by Kalimat press The book could be freely downloaded from the  website as a kindle, pdf, or ePUB, through this link. The provider is Hendawi Foundation for Education and Culture; a non-Profit Organization seeking to promote education and culture and thought in the Arabic region through both translation and publishing of literature from all over the world.

The importance of learning Humanities and Ancient Languages

Wise in cooperation with Qatar Foundation has releases a video to pay the attention of the students to the merits of learning Humanities and Ancient Languages in comparison to learning Medicine and Law ! The video is not in Arabic, but an Arabic synchronization is available.

Video series of "Greco-Roman Egypt" course in Mansour University

High quality video in Arabic (poor content, I'm sorry to say it !) of "the history of Greco-Roman Egypt" in Mansoura University, Faculty of Education. The video is published by Mansoura University on Feb 24, 2013.

Mostafa El-Abbadi receives the Egyptian Republic Medal of Honor

Prof. Emeritus Mostafa El-Abbadi has received the Republic of Egypt's First Degree Medal of Honor - the second highest state honor after Order of the Nile; Egypt's highest state honor. He is said to receive this honor "to honor his scientific career and contributions as well as to recognize the value of culture in our march to the future".

Arabic Contributions to the Study of Greco-Roman Egypt

It seems that I'm not the only interested person in the Arabic contributions in modern times. The renowned  Prof. Emeritus Mostafa El Abbadi of Alexandria University had expressed his interest in the same topic in 1987 - when I was just nine years old ! - in his article:

 Mostafa El Abbadi, "Arabic Contributions to the Study of Greco-Roman Egypt." in Egitto e storia antica. Atti del Colloquio internazionale. Bologna, 31.8-2.9.1987, 383-395.

Egyptian Academic Literature in Classics : A Bibliometrical Study.

The academic literature in Greek and Latin studies  appears to have caught the attention of the Egyptian scholars in the field of  Library and Information sciences, who is called Samia Abdullah Al-Kafoury. A bibliometric study is now available for this literature from its beginning, probably from Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, until 2004; the day which the dissertation/book is said to be approved/released. I'm trying to have a copy of this dissertation/book, with the help of my Egyptian colleagues,  to be posted here in the blog.

An Edition of Averroes'Talḫīṣ kitāb al-šiʿr or "Middle Commentary on the Poetics"

The late Prof. Dr. Muhammed Silem Salem, the founder of classics department in Ain Shams University, has prepared in 1971 an edition of Averroes'Talḫīṣ kitāb al-šiʿr or "Middle Commentary on the Poetics of  Arsitotle".  A digital version is available in my computer ( just send me an email).

An Arabic Translation of Garth Fowden's Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused

An Arabic translation of "Before and After Muhammed: The First Millennium Refocused"  By Garth Fowden is now in preparation by Usama Gad.

Two Ptolomaic tombs uncovered in Al-Qantara East

Two Ptolemaic tombs was uncovered today in the Roman necropolis at Al-Qantara East in the Canal city of Ismailiya. The English article is to be found through this link.

Classics Department in Egypt

Classic Department is to be found following universities ( with a link to department's website, when available,) N.B. most websites are in Arabic; some have English contents, other don't:

1- Cairo University ( Faculty of Arts, Department of Greek and Latin Studies).
2- Ain Shams University ( Faculty of Arts, Department of Ancient European Civilizations).
3- Alexandria University ( Faculty of Arts, Department of  Archaeology and Greek and Latin Studies)
4-Mansoura University ( Faculty of Arts, Department of Greek and Latin Studies)
5- Sohag University ( Faculty of Arts, Department of Greek and Latin Studies)
6- South Valley University ( Faculty of Arts, Department of Greek and Latin Studies).

Plautus' Play Mostellaria into Arabic for the first time.

My colleague Dr. Hatem Rabie of Ain Shams University has translated  Plautus' Play Mostellaria  into Arabic.The translation is titled in Arabic "منزل الأشباح"  and published by the National Center of Translation (NCT), the most reliable publishing house not only in Egypt, but also in the Arabic region. Congratulations my friend. Here is the cover page of the newly released translation.

The 10th International Conference of the Department of Greek and Latin Studies (Cairo University)

The Department of Greek and Latin Studies at the University of Cairo will host its 10th biennial conference in March 2014 . Plenary lectures , presentations and papers will be held on campus in the Faculty's Conference Room . Accommodation and meals will also be provided on campus.

We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes long followed by discussions) and coordinated panels (comprising either 3 or 4 papers) from graduate students, academic staff, or others interested in the ancient world on the topics suggested below .

For more details, please follow this link . N.B. the conference is postponed to September 2015 ! 

The website of the Egyptian Society of Greek and Roman Studies

The online page of the academic society of classical scholars in Egypt is to be found through this link.