Faculty Bulletin

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) participated from May 21-23, 2013 in the Colloquium on African Rock Art and the Pan African Renaissance, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (sponsored by the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization and the Trust for African Rock Art).

Salima and her colleague Dr. André Veldmeijer’s work on ancient Egyptian chariots was also highlighted in the Spanish edition of National Geographic. That article can be read by clicking HERE.

Cynthia May Sheikholeslami, Egyptologist retired from the English Language Institute (ELI), is the Principal Investigator for a grant she has received from the Antiquities Endowment Fund, administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). The purpose of the grant is to have x-rays and CT-scans made of four 22nd to 25th Dynasty mummies found at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes (Luxor) in the early 20th century; these mummies are now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, and the Luxor Museum.

Project team member Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE), will be responsible for undertaking the x-rays and interpretation of the bioarchaeological data, while Cynthia will deal with archaeological data and historical analysis and organize training for the museum staff in how to improve conservation and display techniques for human remains in coffins.

The final results of the project will be published by the Polish-Egyptian Mission to the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, of which Cynthia is a member, in a volume she is co-authoring on the history and finds from the temple dating to the 22nd to 25th Dynasties.

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) has been unanimously elected as Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Belgium).

The following list includes faculty grants only. Graduate student grants are now handled exclusively by Dr. Amr Shaarawi, Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies. Please contact Dr. Shaarawi’s office for news about the status of applications for Graduate Student Grants.

In some cases, adjustments have been made to the requested budgets; please do not assume that you have received the full amount requested.

My office will process the checks for the following grants as quickly as we can, but please allow some time for this to happen, since there is a very heavy workload for my assistant (Nancy Wadie) once the grant decisions are made. If you have not yet provided a letter of acceptance from the conference for which you have received a grant, please note that no check will be issued until we receive such a letter.

If you see any typographical or other errors, or if you believe yourself to be wrongly missing from this list, please contact me immediately at gharman@aucegypt.edu.

CONFERENCE GRANTS

BUS (School of Business)

*Ahmed Abdel-Meguid (ACCT). Paris, France. May 2013.

*Neveen Ahmed (MGMT). New York, USA. May 2013.

*Mohamad Al-Ississ (ECON). Stanford, CA, USA. April 2013.

*Nizar Becheikh (MGMT). Porto Alegre, Brazil. April 2013.

*Mohammed Bouaddi (ECON). Montreal, Canada. April 2013.

*Mohammed Bouaddi (ECON). Montreal, Canada. May-June 2013.

*Hala El-Ramly (ECON). Granada, Spain. June 2013.

*Abeer El-Shennawy (ECON). Prague, Czech Republic. July 2013.

*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). Las Vegas, USA. March 2013.

*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). Paris, France. June 2013.

*Mohamed Hegazy (ACCT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2013.

*Pierre Rostan (MGMT). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2013.

*Samir Youssef (MGMT). London, UK. June 2013.

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Hamid Ali (PPAD). Stockholm, Sweden. June 2013.

*Hussein Amin (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2013.

*Nesrine Badawi (Law). Cambridge, UK. May 2013.

*Shahjahan Bhuiyan (PPAD). Manama, Bahrain. June 2013.

*Shahjahan Bhuiyan (PPAD). Grenoble, France. June 2013.

*Kim Fox (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2013.

*Kim Fox (JRMC). Mechelen, Belgium. July 2013.

*Naila Hamdy (JRMC). Las Vegas, USA. April 2013.

*Kevin Keenan (JRMC). Charlotte, NC, USA. April 2013.

*Scott MacLeod (JRMC). Santa Barbara, CA, USA. February 2013.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*Hala Abd El-Wahab (ALI). New Orleans, USA. October 2013.

*Dalal Abou El Seoud (ALI). New Orleans, USA. October 2013.

*Hossam El-Din Attiah (ELI). Dubai, UAE. March 2013.

*Catarina Belo (PHIL). Paris, France. June 2013.

*Catarina Belo (PHIL). Lund, Sweden. August 2013.

*Victoria Clark (RHET). Osaka, Japan. April 2013.

*Matthew Crippen (PHIL). Exeter, UK. July 2013.

*Amani Demian (ELI). Liverpool, UK. April 2013.

*Christian Donath (POLS). Paris, France. March 2013.

*Ira Dworkin (ECLT). Accra, Ghana. May 2013.

*Atta Gebril (ELI). Istanbul, Turkey. May 2013.

*Mona Kamal Hassan (ALI). New Orleans, USA. October 2013.

*Hanan Kamal Hassanein (ALI). New Orleans, USA. October 2013.

*Salima Ikram (SAPE). Cincinnati, OH, USA. April 2013.

*Doris Jones (RHET). Washington, USA. March 2013.

*Hanan Kholoussy (HIST). New Orleans, USA. October 2013.

*Heba Kotb (SAPE). New Orleans, USA. March 2013.

*William Melaney (ECLT). Cambridge, MA, USA. June 2013.

*Afaf Mishriki (ELI). Liverpool, UK. April 2013.

*Ian Morrison (SAPE). London, UK. April 2013.

*Yasmine Motawy (RHET). Maastricht, The Netherlands. August 2013.

*Rose Parfitt (POLS). Cambridge, MA, USA. June 2013.

*Marilyn Plumlee (ELI). Jyvaskyla, Finland. June 2013.

*Gavin Rae (PHIL). Lisbon, Portugal. July 2013.

*Yasmine Aly Salah El-Din (ELI). Liverpool, UK. April 2013.

*Mate Tokić (HIST). London, UK. April 2013.

*Shahira Mahmoud Yacout (ALI). New Orleans, USA. October 2013.

*Andrea Young (RHET). Boston, USA. March 2013.

LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)

*Meggan Houlihan (LIB). Indianapolis, IN, USA. April 2013.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Hany Fayek Abdalla (MENG). Paris, France. July 2013.

*Nageh Allam (PHYS). San Francisco, USA. April 2013.

*Sherif Aly (CSCE). Shanghai, China. April 2013.

*Salah Arafa (PHYS). Valencia, Spain. March 2013.

*Rachid Belhachemi (MACT). Montreal, Canada. August 2013.

*Ayman Elezabi (EENG). Budapest, Hungary. June 2013.

*Tarek Elkewidy (PENG). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. March 2013.

*Khalil Elkhodary (MENG). Raleigh, NC, USA. July 2013.

*Wael Hassan (CANG). Kos Island, Greece. June 2013.

*Safwan Khedr (CANG). Honolulu, HI, USA. June 2013.

*Magda Mostafa (CANG). Oxford, UK. October 2013.

*Khaled Nassar (CANG). Berlin, Germany. December 2012.

*Ahmed Rafea (CSCE). San Diego, CA, USA. May 2013.

*Sherif Safar (CANG). Honolulu, HI, USA. June 2013.

*Ezzeldin Soliman (PHYS). Karlsruhe, Germany. March 2013.

*El Sayed Zanoun (MENG). Jeju, South Korea. May 2013.

RESEARCH GRANTS

BUS (School of Business)

*Steven Formaneck (MGMT). “Canada vs. UK: Work Practice.” Victoria, BC, Canada. April-May 2013.

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Allison Hodgkins (PPAD). “Separate from Peace: The 1994 Wadi Araba Treaty and Politics of Survival.” Amman, Jordan. March-June 2013.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*Atta Gebril (ELI). “Test Preparation in Egypt and Germany: Secondary School teachers’ Beliefs and Practices.” Berlin, Germany. June-July 2013.

*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). “Imitation, Appropriation, and Pseudotranslation: The Ethics of Literary Theft in Galway Kinnell’s Black Light and Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl.” Bloomington, IN, USA. July-August 2013.

*Gavin Rae (PHIL). “Emergent Morphology: Ontology, Law, and the Question of Anthropocentrism.” Madrid, Spain. July-August 2013.

*Surti Singh (PHIL). “Adorno’s Concept of Experience: Rethinking the Post-Metaphysical Turn in Critical Theory.” Berlin, Germany. June 2013.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Mina Abd-el-Malek. “Visit to Specialized Library in the Field of Theoretical Mechanics.” Udine, Italy. March 2013.

*Wael Ahmed (CHEM). “Novel Polymer Nanocomposites and Electrospun Natural Remedies Nanofibers and Their Applications.” Cairo. March-May 2013.

*Tarek Madkour (CHEM). “Development and Characterization of ‘Environmentally Friendly’ Bioanocomposite Polymeric Blends for Water Desalination and Purification.” Cairo. March 2013-February 2014.

*Khaled Tarabieh (CANG). “Measurement of the Thermal Characteristics of External Envelope Materials for Typical Residential Buildings in Egypt Using the Hot Box Guarded Method ASTM C1363.” Cairo. April-May 2013.

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Hassanein Amer (EENG). “Traffic Control for Intelligent Transportation System Using LTE.” Cairo. March 2013-February 2014.

TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANTS

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Kevin Keenan (JRMC). “Teaching International Public Relations Colloquium.” Charlotte, NC, USA. April 2013.

GSE (Graduate School of Education)

*Stacie Rissmann-Joyce (GSE). “The Future of Learning.” Cambridge, MA, USA. July-August 2013.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Yasser Gadallah (EENG). “ABET Accreditation Workshop.” Portland, OR, USA. April 2013.

*Karim Seddik (EENG). “ABET Accreditation Workshop.” Portland, OR, USA. April 2013.

CO-ORDINATION OF CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANTS

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Magda Shahin (CASAR). “The Politics and Practice of American Studies in the Middle East.” April 2013.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*David Blanks (HIST). “Big History on Dar al-Islam.” June-July 2013.

*Mounira Soliman (ECLT). “Literature and Representation of Identity.” April 2013.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Khaled Nassar (CANG). “Learning from Cairo: Global Perspectives and Future Visions.” April 2013.

February 8, 2013, Cairo, Egypt – The American University in Cairo Press is proud to announce that its recent publication Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile, edited by Marjorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Salima Ikram, and Sue D’Auria, with photographs by Chester Higgins Jr, and a foreword by Zahi Hawass, was named best book in the Archaeology and Anthropology category during the 37th Annual American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) ceremony in Washington.

Sponsored by the Professional Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE Awards annually recognize excellence in books, journals, and electronic content in over forty categories. Publishers and authors are acknowledged for their commitment to pioneering works of research and for contributing to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields.

Ancient Nubia, published by the AUC Press in 2012, is a lushly illustrated gazetteer of the archaeological sites of southern Egypt and northern Sudan, with contributing essays by leading experts on the history, archaeology, and material culture of the region. Many of the book’s 200 color illustrations were taken by the highly acclaimed photographer Chester Higgins Jr.

Nubia’s remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has not only lent it an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration. This book attempts to document some of what has recently been discovered about ancient Nubia, with its remarkable past, bringing to the reader a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.

“We are delighted with this Award,” said AUC Press Director Dr. Nigel-Fletcher Jones, “not only as a testament to the very high quality of authors working regularly with the Press.”

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE), in conjunction with Dr. A. J. Veldmeijer of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute,  organized the First International Chariot Conference at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Zamalek from November 30-December 2, 2012. In addition to organizing the conference, Dr. Ikram presented a paper entitled: “The Tano Chariot and the Egyptian Museum Chariot Project.”

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE), is co-editor(along with M. Fisher, P. Lacovara, and S. D’Auria) of a book that recently appeared with AUC Press, Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile.

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE), is quoted in an October 27 ABC News website story entitled “Modern Science Unravels Ancient Mummy Mysteries.” The article can be read by clicking HERE.

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE), participated in a workshop entitled “Jornadas Conmemorativas XXV Aniversario 1987-2012,” held in October in Madrid. The title of her lecture was “Mummies andMummification in Thebes from the New Kingdom Onward.”

Salima has also just published a book chapter entitled “An Eternal Aviary: Bird Mummies from Ancient Egypt,” in Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, R. Bailleul-LeSuer, ed. Chicago: Oriental Institute. Pages 41-48.

Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of SAPE (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology), in conjunction with Dr. Corinna Rossi, has published  an article entitled “North Kharga Oasis Survey 2007: Preliminary Report, Ain Leekha and Ain Amur,” Mitteilungen der Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut, Kairo66 (2010): 235-42.