EDUCATION

Since 2021

PhD student, University of Geneva.

Dissertation's title: The Decorative Program of the Columns of the Inner- and the Outer Hypostyles at Kom Ombo Temple (under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Collombert)

M.A. 2013-2018

Egyptology Division, Archaeology Department, Ain Shams University.

Thesis entitled: Offering of the Field (sḫt) in the Egyptian Temples of the Greco-Roman Period (2 vols., 321 pages, Unpublished).

Pre-Master Program 2011-2012 Egyptology Division, Archaeology Department, Ain Shams University.

Bachelor of Arts 2010 Egyptology Division, Archaeology Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.


ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Projects

• Since 2023, Member of the Philae temple project (Leipzig University)
• Since 2019, Member of Arab El-Hisn Excavation led by the former minister of antiquities Prof. Mamdouh Eldamaty. 
• Since 2014, Member of the Kom Ombo epigraphic project (Cologne University and Ain Shams University)
• 2020, Creation of an open-air lapidary museum by the Kom Ombo team, north of the Kom Ombo temple (financed, designed and implemented by Kom Ombo Project)

Academic Positions

• Since September 2021, PhD student, Confederation scholarship holder, Faculty of Arts, Department of Antiquities, Unit of Egyptology and Coptic, University of Geneva.
• July-September 2021, Collaborator of the Kom Ombo Project, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute for African Studies and Egyptology, Department of Egyptology, University of Cologne.
• April 2019-August 2020, Assistant Lecturer of Egyptology, Archaeology Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University.
• April 2012-March 2019, Teaching assistant of Egyptology, Archaeology Department, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University. 

Scholarships

• Since September 2021, Excellence grant from the Swiss Confederation for my doctoral research.
• May 2022, Bourse VELAY, Faculty of Arts, University of Geneva. In support of my ongoing doctoral work.
• July-December 2022, Doctoral scholarship for 6 months funded by the French Embassy in Egypt, the French Institute in Egypt (IFE) and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) at the CNRS UMR 5140 - Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies, Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3
• January-July 2021, DAAD Scholarship: German Egyptian Research Short-Term Scholarship Programme (GERSS 2020).

Conferences

• Agricultural Lands as a Woman in Ancient Egypt (Impregnation-Pregnancy-Childbirth and Nursing), in: From the Breast: Interpretations and Representations of Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding in Pre-Modern Cultures, Birmingham, UK (over a period of 3 months, from October to December 2022; invited speaker)
• The Offering of the Field (sḫt) and the Field Goddess, in Land and Peasant of Egypt through the Ages - Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 27-28 October 2022 (invited speaker)
• Agricultural Lands as a Woman in Ancient Egypt (Impregnation-Pregnancy-Childbirth and Nursing), in: Current Research in Egyptology, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, 26-30 September 2022.
• The Offering of the Field and the Field Goddess, in: Ptolemaic Workshop Text in context : « la grammaire du temple », 27-28 October 2021 - IFAO (invited speaker).
• Agricultural Lands as A Woman in Ancient Egypt: Impregnation, Pregnancy, Childbirth & Nursing, in: Quod est Superius Est Sicut Quod Est Inferius: The Cosmic Hypostasis and Earthly/Social Function of Women during Antiquity in Egypt and in The Mediterranean Basin, Athens, Greece, 10-14 February 2020.
• Offering of the Field (sḫt) in the Egyptian Temples of the Greco-Roman Period (Edfu-Dendara), in: Narratives of Power, Universities in Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History (UWICAH) Conference, Swansea, 16 November 2019. 
• Offering of the Field (sḫt) in the Egyptian Temples of the Greco-Roman Period (Edfu-Dendara), in: The First International Conference “Dendera and Ptolemaic Studies: The Egyptian Temples in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods”, Cairo, Egypt, 15-17 March 2019 (invited speaker).

Article/s

Offering of the Field (sḫt), in: Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University (AAFU) 2018, 14 p. (in press).

Poster/s

Offering of the Field (sḫt) in the Egyptian Temples of the Greco-Roman Period (Edfu-Dendara), in: Graduate Annual Research Discussions on Egypt and Nubia VI, Cairo 2019, an international conference held by DAI Kairo - German Archaeological Institute Cairo.

CV

https://shams.academia.edu/IslamAlWakeel