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Cairo University; Johns Hopkins University.
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Hussein Bassir
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Career
In 1994, he got his Bachelor in Egyptology from Cairo University. In 2004, he got his Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, where he currently conducts research as a doctoral candidate. He is also the author of several works of fiction in Arabic on ancient Egypt such as In Search Foreign Khnum and The Old Red Hippopotamus.
His written works include commentaries on Arabic literature, Arabic cinema, Egyptology and Archaeology.
Membership
Bassir worked as a member of Doctor Zahi Hawass" archaeological team alongside Justin Ellis and Gregory Peters while participating in many archaeological excavations in sites all over Egypt. He is currently a member of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture.
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Egypt