Wafaa el-Saddik

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Wafaa el-Saddik ( Arabic وفاء الصديق, DMG Wafāʾ aṣ-Ṣadīq ; * 1950 ) is an Egyptian Egyptologist .

Wafaa el-Saddik studied Egyptology at the University of Cairo . After her BA in 1972, she became an employee of the Egyptian antiquities administration . Since 1978 she has continued her studies at the University of Vienna , where she received her doctorate in 1983 . From 2004 to 2010 she was General Director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . Her predecessor was the former Minister of Antiquities in Egypt, Mamdouh el-Damaty (Mamdu al Damati).

In connection with her scientific work, she also gave strong impulses for the establishment of museum educational offers for museums in Egypt. So she initiated the establishment of the children's museum of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .

El-Saddik has been married to the Egyptian Azmy El Rabbit since 1989, who ran a pharmacy in Cologne. The couple lived in Cologne with their two sons until 2003. Even after her regular retirement in 2010, Wafaa el-Saddik has an apartment in Cairo. On September 21, 2014, she received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class at a reception at the German Embassy in Cairo .

Fonts (selection)

  • Twenty-sixth dynasty necropolis at Giza. An analysis of the tomb of Thery and its place in the development of Saite funerary art and architecture. Afro-Pub, Vienna 1984 full text (PDF; 19.8 MB)
  • Children's museums for Egypt: study on the establishment of children's museums and museum education departments in the museums of Egypt. Cairo / Cologne 1989.
  • with Rüdiger Heimlich: There is only the straight path. My life as the treasure keeper of Egypt. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013. ISBN 978-3-462-04535-2 (autobiography).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wafaa el-Saddik, Rüdiger Heimlich: There is only the straight path. My life as the treasure keeper of Egypt. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04535-2 , p. 285.
personal data
SURNAME Saddik, Wafaa el-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sadeek, Wafaa el
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950