Naguib Kanawati is an Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 Australia

Australia

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n Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University

Macquarie University

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 in Sydney

Sydney

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, New South Wales

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, Australia.

Career

A native of Alexandria

Alexandria

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, Egypt

Egypt

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, with a Master's degree in business administration, Kanawati later emigrated to Sydney, Australia, where he obtained his second Master's degree

Master's degree

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 and Doctorate

Doctorate

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, both in Egyptology

Egyptology

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. He subsequently joined the academic staff of the university, as Lecturer in History (1980–1983), and Associate Professor in Egyptology (1984–1990).

From 1990, Kanawati became Macquarie University's first Professor in Egyptology and holds a Personal Chair in that subject. He was instrumental in the formation of the Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology in the late 1970s and was the founder, in 1989, of the Australian Centre for Egyptology

Australian Centre for Egyptology

The Australian Centre for Egyptology is an umbrella organisation established in 1989 by Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in order both to coordinate Australian excavation efforts in Egypt with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities , and to promote Egyptology within the Australian...

, which coordinates all Australian excavations in Egypt with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities

Supreme Council of Antiquities

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.

Kanawati's research interests focus on the Old Kingdom

Old Kingdom

Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley .The term itself was...

 period of Egypt, its burial customs, art history, and socio-political development. He has directed numerous excavations and epigraphic expeditions, at sites including the entire mountain of El-Hawawish

El-Hawawish

El-diabat is the name given to the site of the ancient necropolis for the city of Akhmim in the Sohag Governorate, Egypt.The cemetery was excavated extensively by an Australian archaeological and epigraphic expedition under the auspices of the Australian Centre for Egyptology and Macquarie...

 (in excess of 800 Old Kingdom

Old Kingdom

Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley .The term itself was...

 and First Intermediate Period rock-cut tombs), Quseir El Amarna, El Hagarsa (near Sohag), Deir El Gebrawi, Giza, as well as the Unis

Unas

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 and Teti

Teti

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 pyramid cemeteries at Saqqara

Saqqara

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.

Other interests

He is also the current Vice-President (and member for many years) of the Parish Council of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy Church

Melkite Greek Catholic Church

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 of Australia and New Zealand; Vice-President, Eparchy Pastoral Council; the Chairman of its Aged Care Committee; Chairman of the Melkite Board of Study; and former Chair of its Finance Committee. He was the founding Committee Member of the Holy Saviour Community School, continuing on the committee since 1997. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Australian Academy of the Humanities

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 in 1997.

Honours

On 1 January 2001 he was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal

Centenary Medal

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 "for services to Australian society and the humanities in the study of prehistory and archaeology". In the Queen's Birthday Honours awarded on 11 June 2007 he was awarded the Order of Australia

Order of Australia

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 "for service to education through research and the promotion and advancement of the study of Egyptology, and to the community."

Ancient History Documentary Research Centre (Macquarie University)

• Naguib Kanawati, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, Colin Hope, Nabil Charoubim, John Curro, Naguib Maksoud, Reece Scannell, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor, Gaye Wilson, The Rock Tombs of El-Hawawish: The Cemetery of Akhmim, Volumes I–X. (Sydney, 1980–1992).
• Naguib Kanawati, Ali El-Khouli, Ann McFarlane, & Naguib V. Maksoud, Excavations at Saqqara: North-West of Teti's Pyramid, Volume I (Sydney, 1984). ISBN 0-85837-626-1.
• Ali El-Khouli & Naguib Kanawati, with contributions by Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor, Ann McFarlane, Reece Scannell and H. El-Tayeb, Excavations at Saqqara North-West of Teti's Pyramid, Volume II, (Sydney, 1988).

The Australian Centre for Egyptology: Reports

• (Reports: 1) Ali El-Khouli & Naguib Kanawati, Quseir El-Amarna: The Tombs of Pepy-ankh and Khewen-Wekh, (Sydney, 1989). ISBN 0-85668-508-9 and ISBN 0-85837-663-6.
• (Reports: 2) Ali El-Khouli & Naguib Kanawati, The Old Kingdom Tombs of El-Hammamiya, (Sydney, 1990). ISBN 0-85668-567-4 and ISBN 0-85837-702-0.
• (Reports: 4) Naguib Kanawati, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, Elizabeth Thompson, Nabil Charoubim & Naguib Victor, The Tombs of El-Hagarsa, Volume 1, (Sydney, 1993): ISBN 0-85668-602-6. Later published in 1997 under ISBN 0-85837-805-1.
• (Reports: 5) Naguib Kanawati & Ann McFarlane, with contributions by Nabil Charoubim, Naguib Victor and A. Salama, Deshasha: The Tombs of Inti, Shedu and Others, (Sydney, 1993). ISBN 0-85668-617-4.
• (Reports: 6) Naguib Kanawati, with contributions by E.S. Bailey, N. Charoubim, R.A. David, P. Dyer, R. Elles, R.P. Evans, C. Griffiths, C.W. Griggs, R. Harris, N. Iskander, A. Ivinson, M.C.J. Kuchar, A. McFarlane, M.J. Rowe, R. Shnier, E. Tapp, E. Thompson, L. Turnbull, N. Victor, K. Wildsmith, and S.R. Woodward, The Tombs of El-Hagarsa, Volume 2, (Sydney, 1993). ISBN 0-85668-616-6 and ISBN 1-86408-056-6.
• (Reports: 7) N. Kanawati, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, Elizabeth Thompson, N. Charoubim, and Naguib Victor, The Tombs of El-Hagarsa, Volume 3, (Sydney, 1995). ISBN 1-86408-004-3 (hardcover).
• (Reports: 8) Naguib Kanawati & Ali Hassan, with contributions by Paul Bentley, Alan Cavanagh, Nabil Charoubim, Ann McFarlane, Sameh Shafik, Karin Sowada, Elizabeth Thompson and Naguib Victor, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume I: The Tombs of Nedjet-em-pet, Ka-aper and Others, (Sydney, 1996). ISBN 0-85668-680-8.
• (Reports: 9) Naguib Kanawati & Ali Hassan, with contributions by Alan Cavanagh, Ann McFarlane, Sameh Shafik and Naguib Victor, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume II: The Tomb of Ankhmahor, (Warminster, 1997). ISBN 0-85668-802-9.
• (Reports: 11) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, Sameh Shafik, Elizabeth Thompson & Naguib Victor, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume III: The Tombs of Neferseshemre and Seankhuiptah, (Warminster, 1998). ISBN 0-85668-804-5.
• (Reports: 13) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, Sameh Shafik, Elizabeth Thompson & Naguib Victor, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume V: The Tomb of Hesi, (Warminster, 1999). ISBN 0-85668-814-2.
• (Reports: 14) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by L. Horácková, Ann McFarlane, Sameh Shafik, Mark Spigelman, Eugen Strouhal, Elizabeth Thompson and Naguib Victor, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume VI: The Tomb of Nikauisesi, (Warminster, 2000). ISBN 0-85668-819-3.
• (Reports: 16) Naguib Kanawati, with a Preface by Zahi Hawass and contributions by Ann McFarlane, Sameh Shafik, Elizabeth Thompson & Naguib Victor, Tombs at Giza, Volume I: Kaiemankh (G4561) and Seshemnefer (G4940), (Warminster, 2001). ISBN 0-85668-805-3.
• (Reports: 17) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by L. Horácková, Ann McFarlane, T.H. Schmidt-Schultz, M. Schultz, Sameh Shafik, Eugen Strouhal, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor and Roxie Walker, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume VII: The Tombs of Shepsipuptah, Mereri (Merinebti), Hefi and Others, (Warminster, 2001). ISBN 0-85668-806-1.
• (Reports: 18) Naguib Kanawati, Tombs at Giza, Volume II: Seshathetep/Heti (G5150), Nesutnefer (G4970) and Seshemnefer II (G5080), (Warminster, 2002). ISBN 0-85668-815-0.
• (Reports: 19) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, T.H. Schmidt-Schultz, M. Schultz, Sameh Shafik, Eugen Strouhal, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor, Roxie Walker and Alex Woods, The Unis Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume II: The Tombs of Iynefert and Ihy (re-used by Idut), (Oxford, 2003). ISBN 0-85668-813-4 and ISBN 0-85668-821-5.
• (Reports: 21) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by Effy Alexakis, R. Gargour, Kim McCorquodale, Sameh Shafik, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor & Alex Woods, Mereruka and His Family, Part 1: The Tomb of Meryteti, (Oxford, 2004). ISBN 0-85668-816-9.
• (Reports: 23) Naguib Kanawati, with contributions by Effy Alexakis, Sameh Shafik, M. Momtaz, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor & Alex Woods, Deir El-Gebrawi, Volume I: The Northern Cliff, (Oxford, 2005). ISBN 0-85668-807-X.
• (Reports: 24) Naguib Kanawati, with chapters by Anne McFarlane & Karin Sowada, and contributions by Effy Alexakis, Sameh Shafik, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor, & Alex Woods, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume VIII: The Tomb of Inumin, (Warminster, 2006). ISBN 0-85668-810-X.
• (Reports: 25) Naguib Kanawati, Deir El-Gebrawi, Volume II: The Southern Cliff, (Aris & Phillips, 2006). ISBN 0-85668-808-8.

The Australian Centre for Egyptology: Studies

• (Studies: 2) Naguib Kanawati, with a Chapter by Ann McFarlane, Akhmim in the Old Kingdom, Part I: Chronology and Administration, (Sydney, 1992). ISBN 0-85668-603-4.

Other Books

• Naguib Kanawati, Egyptian Administration in the Old Kingdom: Evidence on its Economic Decline (Doctoral Thesis, Macquarie Univ, 1974), (June 1977), ISBN 0-85668-102-4.
• Naguib Kanawati, Governmental Reforms in Old Kingdom Egypt, (Warminster, 1980), ISBN 0-85668-168-7.
• Naguib Kanawati, The tomb and its significance in ancient Egypt (Prism archaeological series, 1987). ISBN 977-367-159-3.
• Naguib Kanawati, Sohag in Upper Egypt: A glorious history (Prism archaeological series, 1990), ISBN 977-235-002-5.
• Naguib Kanawati, with photography by Reece Scannell, A Mountain Speaks: The First Australian Excavation in Egypt, (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1988): ISBN 0-85837-633-4 (hardcover & paperpack). Published later in the United Kingdom as The Mountain Speaks, (Warminster, 1995): ISBN 0-85668-570-4 (paperback).
• Naguib Kanawati, The Tomb and Beyond: Burial Customs of the Egyptian Officials, (Warminster, 2002). ISBN 0-85668-734-0.
• Naguib Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I, (Routledge, 2002). ISBN 0-415-27107-X.

Media Reports

• "Setting the Record Straight" - Macquarie University News article, June 2002, regarding Kanawati's work at Giza
• Rewriting the "bible of Egyptology" - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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   News in Science article, 3 June 2002.
• "Unlocking the secrets of Ancient Egypt" (Macquarie University News article, May 2003, with picture which includes Professor Kanawati).
• "On Site Insight: An Australian archaeological excavation in Egypt" (3 June 2005 announcement of a photographic exhibition covering three seasons of excavations at Saqqara, with image of Professor Kanawati).

External links

• Australian Centre for Egyptology (official website)
• Transcript of Interview with George Negus, 14 June 2004 - ABC
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  website
• Article about ABC Queensland Radio interview 31 May 2006 (includes links to RealMedia & WinMedia audio)