Biography
Magda El-Nowieemy
ACADEMIC POSITION:
Department of Archaeology and Greco-Roman Studies, School of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt.
ACADEMIC DEGREE:
University of Alexandria, 1986.
AWARDS:
She received the first Aeneas Prize for the best study in Latin literature in Egypt, awarded by the Italian Cultural Institute, Cairo, in 2000.
She was awarded the Academic Distinction Prize of the University of Alexandria, in 2011.
HONORARY DISTINCTIONS:
Certificate of Distinction for “Support of Classical Studies in Egypt” awarded by Ain Shams University, Cairo, in March 1997.
Certificate of Creativity and Appreciation in the Continuous Service of Eternal Egypt awarded by the Society for the Development of Creators of Alexandria, March 2006.
Medal of the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education, awarded by the Egyptian Cultural Center in Athens, Greece, October 2015.
Shield of Recognition and Appreciation for “Distinguished Academic Career” awarded by Ain Shams University, Cairo, March 2016.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
She spent her early academic (postgraduate) years in the UK (1977-1981). To advance her research, she visited University College London, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford to use their libraries and to interact with scholars in the summer of 2000.
She participated, reading papers, in 89 Conferences and Symposia in Egypt, France, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Russia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Jordan, Sharjah and Saudi Arabia.
She gave invited lectures (1998-present), at the Archaeological Society of Alexandria, the Center for Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, Cairo, the Alexandria Project of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Alexandria Creators’ Center, the Calligraphy and Manuscripts Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Egyptian Cultural Center in Athens, Greece.
Co-organizer and coordinator of the video-conference lecture series, given by
international scholars, at the Alexandria Project, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2014-present).
Co-organizer and coordinator of the Nile Forum lecture series at the Alexandria Creators Centre (2014-present).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: A:
Visiting scholar (on official invitation) at the Centre Louis Gernet, Paris, June-July 2000.
Representative in Athens (on official invitation), in an association representing Egyptian universities, September 2001.
Delegate in Grenoble, as part of a group representing Egypt at the 9th Congress of Egyptologists, September 2004.
Supervisor of 24 postgraduate and doctoral theses at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Alexandria and the Centre for Hellenistic Studies of Alexandria (1997-present).
MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES IN EGYPT:
Member of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria.
Member of the Egyptian Society of Greek and Roman Studies (Cairo).
Member of the Egyptian Society for Comparative Literature (Cairo).
Member of the Association of Arab Historians (Cairo).
Member of the Association of Arab Archaeologists (Cairo).
Member and one of the founders of the Egyptian Circle for the Study of Genre and Comparative Poetics (Cairo).
Member of the Board of Directors of the Alexandria Creators Centre (under the Ministry of Culture) 2014-2016.
MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES & RESEARCH GROUPS OUTSIDE EGYPT:
Member of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).
Member of the Société Européenne pour Astronomie dans la Culture (SEAC).
Member of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies (ENCLS).
Member of the research team of the University of the Aegean, Archaeological Science Project Initiative in Egypt (ASPIE).
ΜΕΛΟΣ ΔΙΕΘΝΩΝ ΣΥΝΤΑΚΤΙΚΩΝ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΩΝ:
Βοηθός επιμελητή και μέλος της συντακτικής επιτροπής του ηλεκτρονικού περιοδικού ELECTRYONE, που φιλοξενείται από το Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου: www.electryone.gr.
Μέλος της Συντακτικής Επιτροπής & Κριτής του ηλεκτρονικού περιοδικού ASIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY (ACH), που εκδίδεται από το Canadian Center of Science and Education: http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ach/index.
Μέλος της Συντακτικής Επιτροπής του ηλεκτρονικού περιοδικού SCIENTIFIC CULTURE (SC), που φιλοξενείται από το Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου, Ελλάδα: http://www.sci-cult.com/files/
MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Assistant editor and member of the editorial board of the electronic journal ELECTRYONE, hosted by the University of the Aegean: www.electryone.gr.
Member of the Editorial Board & Reviewer of the e-journal ASIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY (ACH), published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education: http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ach/index.
Member of the Editorial Board of the electronic journal SCIENTIFIC CULTURE (SC), hosted by the University of Aegean, Greece: http://www.sci-cult.com/files/
PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH (IN EGYPT):
“Eclogue 6: Virgil`s Credo of Poetics,” in: Proceedings of Alexandria First International Conference on Cultural Interaction Among Mediterranean Peoples, Suppl. (Alexandria, 1995) σ. 1- 25. “The Propempticon in Tibullus I.3”, στο: “Το προπεμπτικόν εις τον Τίβουλλον Ι.3”, in: Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, τ. 12 (Cairo, 1995) σσ. 141-153.
“Alexandrian Implications in Tibullus I.1”, στο: “Alexandrian Implications in Tibullus I.1”: Bulletin of the Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, vol. 13 (Cairo, 1996) pp. 79 – 93.
Also at: The Tibibus Tibibus, σσ: Alexandria Across the Ages, τ. ii (Faculty of Arts, Alexandria Univ., 2002) σσ. 105-130.
“Catullus and feminism: An Interpretation of Latin Poetry in the Light of Modern Literary Critical Perspectives”, at: Literary Theory and Transformations, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Literary Criticism (Cairo, 1997) page 63-93.
“The image of Phoenicia in Roman poetry”, at: Proceedings of the International Congress on Palestine in the Light of Papyri and Inscriptions, vol. I (Cairo, 2000) pp. 125- 152.
“Catullus 68 and the tradition of the poems Recusatio”, at: Alexandrian Studies II in Honour of Mostafa El Abbadi, Société D`Archéolgie Alexandrie, Bulletin 46 (2001) 249- 277.
“The Fusion of Alexandrian and Roman Thought in Propertius 4.6”, in: G. Hagar, Historical studies in honour of the professor Dr. Adel Ghoneim (Alexandria, 2005) p. 15-30.
“The Classics and the Dialogue of Cultures”: Literary Criticism and Cultural Criticism, Papers Presented to the Third International Confrence on Literary Criticism, ed. Ezz Eldin Ismail (Cairo, 2006) σ. 29-
Also, in “The World of departmental Text”, page: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Comparative Literature and Linguistics: Present and Future (28-30 Αpril 2007), pub. Ahmed Etman (Cairo, 2008), p. 51-69.
“Translating Latin Poetry and the Interaction between Cultures” at: Proceedings of the International Symposium on translation and the interaction between cultures, held by the Department of Greek and Latin Studies, School of Arts, Cairo University, with the collaboration of the National Centre for Translation and the Italian Cultural Institute, Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dr Abdel Mooti Shaarawi, Classical Papers, issue 9, pub. Ophelia Riad (Cairo, 2009) p. 83-91.
“Intellectual and military power: The Politics of Learning between Alexandria and Rome”, in:
The Politics of Learning between Alexandria and Rome: Proceedings of the International Conference on Alexandria and Other Centers of Thought in Ancient Egypt, held by the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in cooperation with University College London, UK, December, 2009 , ed. Mervat Abdelnasser και Sahar Hamouda (Alexandria, 2011) p. 69-84.
“The Red Sea and the luxury of Roman women: A Literary Study”, in: Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Dr. El-Sayed Felefel, ed. Hussein Morad, Institute of Research and African Studies (Cairo, 2013) pp. 64-75.
PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH (IN ITALY, FRANCE, GREECE, GREECE, RUSSIA, HONG KONG, KOREA AND SAUDI ARABIA):
“An Alexandrian poem in Roman literature: A Reading of Catullus 64”, in: “A Reading of Catullus 64: A Reading of Catullus 64”, in: Alessandria E Il Mondo Ellenistico-Romano (Rome, 1995 ) σ. 54 – 58.
“Alexandria Versus Rome in the Aristaeus of Virgil”, in: “Alexandria Versus Rome in the Aristaeus of Virgil”: L`Egitto in Italia (Rome, 1998) p. 111-120.
“A Hymn to Osiris in Tibullus I.7”, in: Faraoni Come Dei Tolemei Come Faraoni (Torino- Palermo, 2003) σ. 151-161.
“Transnational Utopia: Vergil: Arcadia of Virgil”, in: The Arcadia of Virgil: Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the International Association of Comparative Literature), Hong Kong, 2004. Accessed at: http://www.ailc-icla.org/2004/Magda%20El%20Nowieemy.pdf
Επίσης, στο: Δελτίο της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής, 55 (Αλεξάνδρεια, 2006) σ. 107-127.
Επίσης στο: Πρακτικά του Διεθνούς Συμποσίου για τις σύγχρονες τάσεις στις ελληνικές και λατινικές σπουδές, Κλασικά Χαρτιά, τ. vii, εκδ. Ophelia Riad (Κάιρο, 2007) σσ. vii – xx.
“Ancient Egyptian Religion in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses”, in: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta,
Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, pub. Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin (Peeters, Leuven, Paris, Dudley 2007) p. 597- 605.
“The translation of Homer’s Iliad by Sulaiman Al-Bustani: A Study of Creation and Trans- Creation”, στο: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Graeco-Oriental and African Studies, held in Delphi, Greece, May 2009, Graeco-Arabica, vol. 11 (Heraklion, Crete 2011) pp. 247-256.
“Arabia in Roman sources: The Testimony of Latin Poetry”, in: The Evidence of Latin Poetry: Arabia, Greece, and Byzantium: Cultural Contacts in Ancient and Medieval Times, ed. A. Al- Helabi, D. Letsios etc., (Riyadh, 2012) κ.ά., p. 131-142.
“Hellenism, Alexandrianism, and Roman Enlightenment”, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on “Alexander, the Greek cosmosystem and modern global society”, Academy of Institutions and Cultures, Thessaloniki, June 2013, pp. 403-415. Access to: http://www.academy.edu.gr/files/prakt_alexandros/01_23_pr_al.pdf
“Beyond the limits: An Egyptian Literary Adaptation of Greek Philosophy”, in:
Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature: A Return to the Transnational Tradition (Chung- Ang University Press, Seoul, South Korea 2013) p. 115-124.
“Beyond the limits: An Egyptian Literary Adaptation of Greek Philosophy” (A More Expanded Version), στο: Tahiyyat: Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Nikolay Dyakov (St Petersburg, 2013) p. 77-86.
Review of the book “Virgil”: The Aeneid, translated into Arabic with notes by various hands, revised by A. Shaarawi, with introduction and selected bibliography, two parts, 2nd edition, Cairo: National Translation Center, 2011, ELECTRYONE (2013) issue 1, p. 66-68. Access to: http://www.electryone.gr/?cat=27
“Nostalgia and belonging: An Egyptian Cultural Perspective of Mediterraneanism”. Paper read at the ENCLS International Conference, held in Dublin-Galway, Ireland, 24-28 August 2015; forthcoming in Scientific Culture: http://www.sci-cult.com/files/
APART FROM OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN ARABIC IN EGYPT, THE QUBIT, THE AMBU DHABI AND THE CASA. THE MOST RECENT OF THESE IS THE FOLLOWING:
“The First Arabic Edition of Homer’s Iliad” (in Arabic), Rewaq (History & Heritage): Hassan Bin Mohammed Center for Historical Studies, Volume I., num. 1 (Doha, 2016), p. 70-79.
MOST RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“The farewell of Harry Jalas in Alexandria and the Alexandrian mime in antiquity:
The Metaphorical Language of Cultural Identity”, read at the 21st ICLA International Conference, held at the University of Vienna, Austria, 21-27 August 2016.