ALHUSSEIN ABDELBASSIR HASSAN ALI HUSSEIN, Ph.D.
Director of the Antiquities Museum, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Chatby 21526 Alexandria, Egypt
Director of Dr. Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Giza, Egypt.
EDUCATION
2009 Johns Hopkins University – Ph.D. in Egyptology & Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (Ancient Egyptian Languages, Scripts, and Literature, and Art). Department of Near Eastern Studies.
2004 Johns Hopkins University – M.A. in Egyptology & Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (Ancient Egyptian Languages, Scripts, and Literature, and Art). Department of Near Eastern Studies.
1998 Cairo University – Two Year Diploma in Prehistory of ancient Egypt, Near East, and the ancient world. Department of Egyptology.
1994 Cairo University – B.A. in Egyptology (ancient Egyptian languages, scripts, and literature, Coptic grammar and script, Egyptian history, art and archaeology); Graeco- Roman and Near Eastern art, archaeology, and history; Islamic history and art; museology and archaeology. Department of Egyptology.
APPOINTMENTS
2018- Date Director of Dr. Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Giza, Egypt.
2017- Date Director of the Antiquities Museum, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.
2016-2017 General Director of the Scientific Publication Department, Ministry of Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt.
2015-2016 General Director of the Giza Pyramids, Ministry of Antiquities, Giza, Egypt. 2013-2015 Haury Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona, USA.
2011-2013 General Director of the Grand Egyptian Museum Project, Giza, Egypt.
2009-2011 General Director of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization Project, Cairo, Egypt.
2003-2009 Ph.D. candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.1995-2003 Archaeologist at the Giza Pyramids, Supreme Council of Antiquities
BOOKS
(In preparation) H. Bassir. Texts from Saite Egypt.
(In preparation) Z. Hawass and H. Bassir. Texts and Scenes: Saite Tombs at Bahariya Oasis.
2019 H. Bassir (editor). Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press.
2014 Bassir, H. Image and Voice in Saite Egypt: Self-Presentation of Neshor Named Psamtikmenkhib and Payeftjauemawyneith. Wilkinson Egyptology Series 2. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition.
Review: Price, C. 2015. Review: Bassir, Hussein 2014. Image and voice in Saite Egypt: self- presentation of Neshor named Psamtikmenkhib and Payeftjauemawyneith. Wilkinson Egyptology Series 2. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition. Ancient Egypt: the history, people and culture of the Nile valley 90 (15/6), 57-58.
1994 Abdel Bassir, H. Renenutet. The Goddess of Harvest in Ancient Egypt (in Arabic). (A graduation project from Cairo University).
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE BOOK-REVIEWS
2016 Bassir, H. Review: Leprohon, R. J. 2013. The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary. Edited by D. M. Doxey. Writings from the Ancient World 33. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature. Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 41 (2014-2015), 97-101.
2015 Bassir, H. Review: Jansen-Winkeln, K. 2014. Inschriften der Spätzeit, Teil IV: die 26. Dynastie, 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Near Eastern Archaeology 78 (4), 304-305.
2014 Bassir, H. Review: Leprohon, R. J. 2013. The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary. Edited by D. M. Doxey. Writings from the Ancient World 33. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature. Abgadiyat 9, 31-33.
2014 Bassir, H. Review: Enmarch, Roland and Verena M. Lepper (eds.) 2013. Ancient Egyptian Literature: Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the British Academy 188. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Near Eastern Archaeology 77 (4), 301-303.
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH MANUSCRIPTS
(In preparation) H. Bassir. JmAxw xr njswt-bjt Haa-jb-ra, jmAxw before the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Haaibre.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. Talking Animals in Late Egyptian Stories: Textual and Literary Approaches.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. The Self-Presentation of Ahmose son Nesatum of His Statue from Mendes.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. Text and Image on a TIP Cartonnage Piece in the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. Textual Evidences of Administering Nubia in the Ramesside Period.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. Once More on the Word Hr, “Pyramid,” in the Self-Presentation of Debhen at His Tomb at Giza.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. Interacting with the King in Late Old Kingdom Egypt: New Lights on the Self-Presentation of Senedjemib Inti at His Tomb at Giza.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. A Royal Stone Head from Rosetta, Egypt. (In preparation) H. Bassir. Portraying Amasis at Bahariya Oasis.
(In preparation) H. Bassir. The Late Saite Royal Self-Presentation at Karnak: Kings Amasis and Psamtik III.
2019 (in press) H. Bassir. On the Word znn in the Self-Presentation of Payeftjauemawyneith on Naophorous Statue BM EA 83. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 88.
2019 Sherbiny, H. and H. Bassir. Prehistory of Dendro-Egyptology. From Andrew Ellicott Douglass to Peter Ian Kuniholm. In S. El Kabbani (ed.). Prehistory in the Arab World and Africa - Second Cycle, 2-5 March 2015. Writing and Scripts Center - Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 33-43.
2018 H. Bassir. The Egyptian Expansion in the Near East in the Saite Period. Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences 3 (2), 196-200.
2018 Fahim, T. and H. Bassir. Royal Clothing of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty: Adaptations and Innovations. Cahiers caribéens d'égyptologie 23, 67-94.
2018 H. Bassir. Royal Self-Presentation in the Self-Presentation of Payeftjauemawyneith on Naophorous Statue Louvre A93. Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences 3 (5), 636-638.
2017 H. Bassir. “Doing Good is a Monument”: On the Self-Presentation of Neshor on Theophorous Statue Hermitage 2962. Cahiers caribéens d’égyptologie 22, 63-88.
2017 H. Bassir. On the Saite Epithet Wr M Ntrt, the Great One in Netjerit. Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences 2 (3), 95-96.
2017 H. Bassir. The Great Sphinx at Giza: The Immortal Witness of Interconnections between East and West. Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences 2 (3), 103-104.
2017 Creasman, P. P., H. Touchane, C. H. Baisan, H. Bassir, R. Caroli, N. Doyle, H. Herrick,
A. Koutkat, R.Touchan. An Illustrated Glossary of Arabic-English Dendrochronology Terms and Names. – PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 14(3) (2017), 1-35.
2016 Bassir, H. On the So-Called Transmission of Schriftkultur in the Self-Presentations of Payeftjauemawyneith. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 102, 41-53.
2016 Bassir, H. “Protecting the Temple of God”: On the Self-Presentation of Neshor on His Mendes Statue. Études et Travaux 29, 19-32.
2016 Bassir, H. On the Self-Presentation of Payeftjauemawyneith on Naophorous Statue Louvre A 93 as a “Royal Self-Presentation”. Revista Mundo Antigo 9, 163-170.
2016 Bassir, H. Neshor at Elephantine in Late Saite Egypt. Journal of Egyptian History 9 (1), 66-95.
2016 Bassir, H. and T. Fahim. Amarna Royal Clothing: Tradition and Adaptation. Cahiers caribéens d’égyptologie 21, 111-138.
2016 Sherbiny, H. and H. Bassir. Five Ancient Egyptian Wooden Objects at Arizona State Museum. i-Medjat 13, [12-16].
2015 Sherbiny, H. and H. Bassir. Ancient Egyptian Wooden Objects at Arizona State Museum.
Journal of Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University 9 (2), 179-193.
2015 Sherbiny, H. and H. Bassir. A Wooden Hawk (Horus) Statuette from the Late Period of Ancient Egypt at Arizona State Museum. Cahiers caribéens d’égyptologie 19-20, 83-87.
2015 Megahed, Ibrahim and H. Bassir. The Clay Naos of the Goldsmith Sankhuher in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Cahiers caribéens d’égyptologie 19-20, 143-160.
2015 Sherbiny, H. and H. Bassir. Egypt’s Wooden Treasures. Developments and Challenges toward Establishing Dendrochronology in Egypt (in Arabic). Shedet 2, 163-174.
2014 Bassir, H. Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Near East. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 6.4: 30-31.
2014 Bassir, H. and P. P. Creasman. Payeftjauemawyneith’s Shabti (UC
40093) and Another from Nebesheh. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
50, 161-169.
2014 Bassir, H. On the Expression xwj-mkj in the Self-Presentation of Payeftjauemawyneith on Naophorous Statue Louvre A 93, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 87, 255-257.
2014 Bassir, H. Dr. Alya Sherif: A Leading Egyptian Egyptologist and Director of Scientific Publications. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 87, 11.
2014 Sherbiny, H. and H. Bassir. The Representation of the Hedgehog Goddess Abaset at Bahariya Oasis. Journal of American Research Center in Egypt 50, 171-89.
2014 Kuniholm, P. I., M. Newton, H. Sherbiny, and H. Bassir. Dendrochronological Dating in Egypt: Work Accomplished and Future Prospects. Center for Mediterranean Archaeology and the Environment (CMATE) Special Issue Joint publication of Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Research. Radiocarbon 56 (4), 93–102 and Tree-Ring Research 70 (3), 93-102.
2014 Sherbiny H., H. Bassir, and T. Fahim. Touristic Devolvement of Bahariya Oasis (in Arabic). The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University, Egypt.
2013 Bassir, H. The Grand Egyptian Museum. A Home for Interconnections. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5.4: 6-8.
REFEREED & INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS
2020 H. Bassir. Introduction. In H. Bassir (ed.). Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 1-8.
2020 H. Bassir. Traditions of Egyptian Self-Presentations. In H. Bassir (ed.). Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 247-272.
2020 (in press) H. Bassir. A FIP Slab Stela of a General from Naga-ed-Dêr, Cairo Museum (JE 45969). In J. Kamrin, M. Megahed, M. Barta, S. Ikram, and M. Lehner
(eds.). Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of Zahi Hawass. Prague: Charles University.
2020 (in preparation) H. Bassir. The Saite Period (664-256 BC). In I. Shaw (ed.). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2019 (in press) H. Bassir. Non-Royal Self-Presentation. In UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
2019 (in press) H. Bassir. On the Title “aA n #A, the Great One of the #A-Hall” of Payeftjauemawyneith in Saite Egypt. In A. Omar (ed.). Beloved of Seshat: Essays in Honour of Fayza Haikal. GHP Egyptology Series. Golden House Publications: London.
2015 Bassir, H. On the Historical Implications of Payeftjauemawyneith’s Self-Presentation on Louvre A 93. In Jasnow, R. and K. M. Cooney (eds.), Joyful in Thebes: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Betsy M. Bryan. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 21-35.
2013 Bassir, H. The Headless Statue of Queen Tausret from Madinet Nasr. In Creasman, P. P. (ed.), Archaeological Research in the Valley of the Kings and Ancient Thebes: Papers Presented in Honor of Richard H. Wilkinson, [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, 71-87.
2013 Bassir, H. The Self-Presentation of Payeftjauemawyneith on Naophorous Statue BM EA
83. In Frood, E. and A. McDonald (eds.), Decorum and Experience. Essays in Ancient Culture for John Baines, Oxford: Griffith Institute, 6-13.
2012 Bassir, H. Egypt. Pharaohs, Kings and Presidents. In Furtado, P. (ed.), Histories of Nations. How Their Identities were Forged. London-New York: Thames & Hudson: 19- 25.
THESES
2009 Hussein, A. A. B. Self-Presentation of the Late Saite Non-Royal Elite. The Texts and Monuments of Neshor Named Psamtikmenkhib and Payeftjauemawyneith. Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. pp. 309 Advisors: Betsy M. Bryan and Richard Jasnow.
1994 Abdel Bassir, H. Renenutet. The Goddess of Harvest in Ancient Egypt (in Arabic) (Graduation project from Cairo University). pp. 150.
Advisor: Tohfa Handoussa
Editorial Board Membership
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (2016-2018)
ARTICLES AND BOOK-REVIEWS IN THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
Abgadiyat
African Journal of History and Culture
Near Eastern Archaeology
TRANSLATIONS INTO ARABIC
Creasman, P.P. 2014. Tree Rings and Ancient Egypt. Tree Rings and the Chronology of Ancient Egypt. Radiocarbon 56 (4): 85-92 and Tree-Ring Research 70 (3): 85-92.
Creasman, P.P. 2014. The Potential of Dendrochronology in Egypt. Understanding Ancient Human/Environment Interactions. In S. Ikram, J. Kaiser, and R. Walker (eds.). Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt. Sidestone Press.
Schwartz, G. M. and H. Curvers. 2008. Archaeological Research at Tell Umm el-Marra (1994- 2004). Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 47-48 (2004/2005): 23-34, 329-31.
Bannister, B. and Robinson, W. J. 1975. Tree-Ring Dating in Archaeology. World Archaeology, 7 (2). Dating. New Methods and New Results (Oct.): 210-25.
Bannister, B. 1962. The Interpretation of Tree-Ring Dates. American Antiquity 27 (4) (Apr.): 508-14.
Douglass, A. E. 1941. Crossdating in Dendrochronology. Journal of Forestry 39: 825-31. In press. Creasman, P.P. and J. S. Dean. The Fundamental Concepts of Dendrochronology for Egyptology.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Main Teaching Interests: Ancient Egyptian languages (Old, Middle, Late Egyptian, and Coptic), scripts (Hieratic and Demotic), art and literature; history, art, and archaeology of Ancient Egypt and the Near East, the Mediterranean World, and Western Asia (Egypt, Nubia, Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, Persia, Anatolia, and Arabia).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Online Teaching Courses at Almentor.net
Ancient Egyptian Language (Middle Egyptian): Easy to Learn Hieroglyphs
Abu Qir High Institutes- Alexandria, Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Language: Middle Egyptian, Ancient Egyptian History of the Third Intermediate and Late Periods; Ancient Egyptian Religion
Misr International University; Misr University of Sciences and Technology
Ancient Egyptian Language: Introduction to Middle Egyptian; Hieratic; History of Art; Ancient Egyptian Religion; Ancient Egyptian History
Johns Hopkins University
Intermediate Arabic; Beginning Arabic I; Beginning Arabic II; Arabic Instructor; Beginning Arabic; Intermediate Arabic; Advanced Arabic; Arabic TA of Arabic courses
French University in Egypt & University of Sorbonne
Master of Cultural Heritage Program; Ancient Egyptian Literature; Ancient Egyptian Religion; History of Egyptian Antiquities Service: Supreme Council of Antiquities and Ministry of State of Antiquities
Maryland Institute College of Art
Ancient Cultures in Texts: Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hebrew Bible, Ancient Greece and Rome
Misr University of Sciences and Technology
Ancient Egypt and Ancient Near East; History of Ancient Arabia; Ancient Egyptian History II (Middle Kingdom & Second Intermediate Period) & III (New Kingdom through Third and Late Periods)
Supreme Council of Antiquities, Advanced School
Ancient Egyptian Biographies and Ancient Egyptian Language
Mansoura University; Misr International University
Ancient Egyptian Religion; New Kingdom Art and Archaeology;
Introduction to Ancient Egypt; Archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt; History of Graeco- Roman Egypt
University of Arizona – Tucson, Arizona, USA
Ancient Egyptian Great Sites: Giza & Grand Egyptian Museum.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK 2002
Field director of the excavations at Bahariya Oasis, the Sheikh Sobi Cemetery, (Saite Period).
Field director of excavations at the Eastern Cemetery (Saite Period), Heliopolis.
2001
Field director of the excavations at the Eastern Cemetery (Saite Period), Heliopolis. Field director of the excavations at Bahariya Oasis, Valley of the Golden Mummies (Greco-Roman Period).
2000
Field School of Combined Prehistoric Expedition in Nabta Playa under the Supervision of Professor Fred Wendorf, (Southern Methodist University, Department of Anthropology), Egyptian Western desert.
Excavations at the Nabta Playa (Neolithic Period), Egyptian Western desert.
1999
Field director of excavations at the Panehsy Cemetery (Saite Period), Heliopolis.
1997
Field director of excavations at the Arab Al-Hissen Cemetery (New Kingdom), Heliopolis.
Field director of excavations at the Eastern Cemetery (Saite Period), Heliopolis.
1997-2002
Directing the salvation of Panehsy tomb project, Heliopolis.
1997-98
Field director of the excavations at the Teti Cemetery (Old Kingdom), Saqqara.
1996-98
Participated in the project of great Sphinx restoration, Giza.
1996-97
Documenting ancient Egyptian monuments in Islamic Cairo project.
1996
Prepared and opened the Red Pyramid of Sneferu for the public. Participated in the project of developing of the Saqqara antiquities area.
Participated in the salvation of the Serapeum project, Saqqara.
Participated in the salvation of the temple of Hibis project, the Kharga Oasis.
REPRESENTATIVE INVITED PAPERS & LECTURES
2019 Luxembourg, Peace European Foundation “Queens of Egypt: Drama of Love and Power”
2019 Barcelona, Spain
“Queens of Egypt: Drama of Love and Power” 2019 Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
“Naguib Mahfouz and Pharaonic Egypt” 2019 University of Durham, UK
“Self-Presentations of Saite Priests from Buto in the First Millennium” 2019 Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA
“The Glories of Ancient Alexandria: Egypt’s Archaeological Treasures from the Mediterranean Sea”
2018 University of Kanazawa, Japan
Keynote-Speaker: “The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum” 2017 Shizouka, Japan
“The Pyramid Builders Exhibition”
2016 Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo, Egypt “The Development of the Giza Plateau”
2015 The 3rd Yeongwol International Museum Forum, South Korea “Egyptian Museums in the Twenty-First Century”
2015 The Central Arizona Archaeological Institute of America, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
“The Shadows of the Monuments of Bahariya Oasis, Egypt”
2015 The School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA “The Monuments of Bahariya Oasis, Egypt”
2014 The University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA “Self-Presentation in Saite Egypt”
2014 Center for Mediterranean Archaeology and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
“The Grand Egyptian Museum: A New Home for Tutankhamun” 2013 University of Arizona – Tucson, Arizona, USA
“Ancient Egyptian Great Sites: Giza” & “Grand Egyptian Museum” 2013 ICOM 23rd Meeting – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Grand Egyptian Museum as a New Museum in Egypt and North Africa” 2013 Tutankhamun Exhibit Tour – Berlin, Germany
“The Grand Egyptian Museum: A New House for Tutankhamun” 2013 Tutankhamun Exhibit Tour – Prague, Czech Republic
“The Grand Egyptian Museum: A New House for Tutankhamun” 2012 Heritage Conservation Center – Singapore
“The Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center: Towards a New Strategic Management Plan”
2012 French University in Egypt and Sorbonne University – Cairo “How to save Egypt’s Heritage”
2009 Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau – Washington DC “Nubian Pharaohs”
2008 Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau – Washington DC “The Monuments of Bahariya Oasis”
REPRESENTATIVE CONFERENCE PAPERS
2011 UN International Workshop, Al Jadidah, Casablanca, Morocco “Dahshur Project as a World Heritage Site”
2010 University of Castile-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
“The Greatest Archaeological Discoveries in Egypt in the 20th Century”
2010 Euromed Workshop, Algiers, Algeria.
“Education and Training and Preserving Egypt’s Cultural Heritage”
REPRESENTATIVE SYMPOSIA PARTICIPATED OR ORGANIZED
2019 Buto in the First Millennium, University of Durham, Uk
2010 Conference on International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, Cairo, Egypt.
2006 The American Research Center in Egypt, New Jersey, USA.
2006 Persian History, Art and Archaeology Seminar, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2005 Nubian History, Art and Archaeology Seminar, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2002 Salvation of the Monuments of Al-Qudus’ Congress (Jerusalem), Arab League. 2000 Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists.
1996 International Congress of Tenth Memorial Celebration of the Senegalese Egyptologist Cheikh Anta Diop.
1996 First Congress of Arabic Organization of Museums (Arabic ICOM). 1996 Sixth Congress of Demotic Studies.
POST-DOCS & FELLOWSHIPS
2013-2015 University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition & Lab. of Tree-Ring Research Agnese
Haury Visiting Scholar & Post-Doctoral Researcher in Egyptology 2012 University College London
Cultural Heritage Fellow, British Council & Heritage Without Borders
2003 -2009 Johns Hopkins University
Department of Near Eastern Studies
2001 University of Oxford Oriental Institute and Queen’s College Academic Visitor in Ancient Egyptian Religion
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2011-2013 Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza (Egypt) Director General (2011-2013)
Director General, Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (2011-2013) Director General, Administrative and Financial Affairs (July-August 2013)
2010-2011 Supreme Council of Antiquities/Ministry of State for Antiquities (Egypt) Director General, International Organizations and UNESCO Administration Supervisor & director, Repatriated Antiquities Administration
Founding Director, Archaeological Collections Administration
2009-2010, 2011 National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (Egypt) Archaeological Supervisor (Director)
1995-2003 Supreme Council of Antiquities (Egypt) Director of Scientific Administration (2001-2003)
Assistant to Secretary General of Supreme Council of Antiquities (2001-2003) Inspector of Giza Pyramids (1997-1999)
Assistant to Director General of Giza Pyramids (1997-1999) Inspector of Antiquities of Heliopolis (1997)
Assistant to Secretary General of Supreme Council of Antiquities (1995-1997)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2011, 2013 Misr University for Science and Technology (Egypt) Faculty, Department of Egyptology
2012-2013 French University in Egypt & University of Sorbonne
Instructional Faculty of Egyptology
2011 Misr International University (Egypt) Faculty of Mass Communication
2010 University of Mansoura (Egypt)
Faculty of Tourism, Department of Tourism Guidance
2007-2009 Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) Instructor
2003-2009 Johns Hopkins University
Instructor & Teaching Assistant, Arabic & Language Teaching Center (2004-2007).
Research Assistant, Acquisitions & Monographs, Eisenhower Library (2004-
2007).
Laboratory Consultant, Krieger Academic Computing Lab (2003-2009).
MUSEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES
2013-date
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Archive, University of Arizona.
2013-2014
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona.
2013
Heading the committee of selecting a new exhibit designer for the Grand Egyptian
Museum, Giza.
2012-2013
Archaeological supervisor, Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza.
2011-2013
Initiating cultural program by inviting scholars and specialists in archaeology, prehistory, Egyptology, museology, and conservation and restoration from Egypt and abroad to lecture at the Grand Egyptian Museum Cultural Program.
2010 Writing and editing the labels and wall panels of the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2009-2013
Writing about Egyptian antiquities for raising awareness among adults and the SCA/MSA staff.
2009-2011
Museological education at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Archaeological supervisor, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo. Writing and teaching hieroglyphs for kids at Egyptian museums.
2002
Prepared and participated in the centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Assisted at the celebration of the Alexandria Great Library and the Archaeology museum, Alexandria.
Archaeologist, the Egyptian antiquities’ exhibit, Zagazig (Sharaqiya Governorate, Egypt).
1996-1997
Consultant archaeologist, the Nubia Museum, Aswan.
1996
Organized Egyptian exhibition in Dakar in the international congress of tenth memorial celebration of the Senegalese Egyptologist Professor Cheikh Anta Diop. Organized the First Congress of the Arabic Organization of Museums (Arabic ICOM), Cairo.
Consultant archaeologist, Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza.
MUSEUM EDUCATION
Launching museum education programs including exhibitions, writings and publications for kids and the general public at the Grand Egyptian Museum, National Museum of Egyptian, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum and Dr. Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology at Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
EXHIBITIONS
2017-Date Many Exhibitions at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
2011-2013 The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza.
2009-2011 The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo.
2010 Islamic Art Museum in Cairo.
2003
Eternal Egypt, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
Quest for Immortality, National Gallery, Washington D.C.
2002 Centennial of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Cairo.
1996 Egyptian Exhibition for Cheikh Anta Diop, Museum of African Arts, Dakar.
MUSEUMS HAVING EXPERIENCES AT THE FOLLOWING
-The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
-The Islamic Museum, Cairo
-The Coptic Museum, Cairo
-Luxor Museum, Luxor
-The Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria
-Nubia Museum, Aswan
-Musee d’art africain de Dakar
-The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
-Louvre Museum, Paris
-British Museum, London
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
-The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
-The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Collection, Baltimore
-The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo
-The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
HONORS & AWARDS
2003-2009 Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Fellowship, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
2005 The Student Technology Services of Excellent Work Award, Johns Hopkins Univ.
2004 The Student Technology Services of Excellent Work Award, Johns Hopkins Univ. 2002
The Kuwaiti Princess, Dr. Souad Al-Sabbah, for the Arabic Novel Award.
2001 University of Oxford, Sir Alan H. Gardiner’s Travel Scholarship, Griffith Institute and Queen’s College.
2000 The Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists Cairo Award.
2000 The Field School of Combined Prehistoric Expedition in Nabta Playa Award.
1994 The Cairo University in Religious Studies Award. 1993 The Cairo University in Literary Criticism Award. 1993 The Cairo University in Short Story Award.
1993 The Cairo University in Philosophical Studies Award.
SELECT PRESS, TELEVISION, REPORTS & NON-REFEREED WORKS
-Very active in press and media and giving talks and writing to the foreign, Arabic and Egyptian media and press on the monuments of Egypt. Regularly appearing in programs for National Geographic Channel and Magazine, Fox, BBC, Discovery, and History, etc.
-Writing and publishing extensively on literature (mainly on modern Arabic literature); cinematic history and criticism (mainly on Egyptian cinema), cultural thought (mainly on ancient Egyptian and Islamic thoughts), civilized character of Egypt in newspapers, magazines like Nile Magazine, specialized periodicals, and books related to the festivals and celebrations relevant to expertise and interests, in Egypt, the Arab World, and Europe.
PUBLIC AND SCIENTIFIC LECTURES
Delivering several lectures about ancient Egypt at Egyptian Universities and colleges and sporting clubs.
Inviting scholars from Egypt and abroad to lecture at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Research Center in Egypt
Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (by the Directing Board of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo)
American Research Center in Egypt –Arizona Chapter Board Member
Egypt Exploration Society
Egyptian Museum in Cairo Friends’ Association
International Association of Egyptologists
International Council of Museums
Emails: hussein.bassir@bibalex.org; husseinbassir2001@yahoo.com
