Mostafa El-Abbadi

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Mostafa El-Abbadi
مصطفى العبادي
Mostafa El-Abbadi - Image from last interview with Dr. Ashraf Ezzat before Abbadi's departure .jpg
El-Abbadi in Alexandria, 2016
Born
Mostafa Abdel-Hamid El-Abbadi

(1928-10-10)October 10, 1928
Cairo
DiedFebruary 13, 2017(2017-02-13) (aged 88)
Alexandria, Egypt
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsClassics
ThesisThe Alexandrians: From the Foundation of the City to the Arab Conquest (1960)
Doctoral advisorA. H. M. Jones

Mostafa Abdel-Hamid el-Abbadi (Arabic: مصطفى العبادي‎; October 10, 1928, Cairo – February 13, 2017, Alexandria) was a prominent historian of Greco-Roman Egypt and an Egyptian public intellectual.[1] A professor in Classics at the University of Alexandria, he was credited with proposing the revival of the ancient library of Alexandria, a project embraced by UNESCO in 1986 and completed in 2003.[1][2][3] He was later critical of some of aspects of the project as realized by the Egyptian government, telling the New York Times that the library was at risk of becoming "a cultural center" rather than fulfilling its "promise as a world-class research center."[4]

A recipient of the Order of the Nile,[5] El-Abbadi was a member of Egypt's Supreme Council of Culture (SCC), Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), and l'Institut d'Égypte. He served as president of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria and was an advisor to UNESCO. Educated in Egypt and the United Kingdom, El-Abbadi held a BA from the Alexandria University and a special BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He received an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).[2]

He was married to the literary critic and scholar Azza Kararah. His father, Abdel-Hamid El-Abbadi, was a historian and founding dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alexandria. He is the father of the computer scientist Amr El Abbadi.

He died February 13, 2017 in Alexandria at the age of 88.[6]

Selected works[]

  • What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? Leiden: Brill (2008).
  • The Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Paris: UNESCO (1990, 1992, 1999).
  • "The Alexandrian Citizenship," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1962).

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Mostafa El-Abbadi". . Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Doyon, Frédérique (18 October 2005). "Mostafa El-Abbadi - Un humaniste derrière la Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie" (in French). Le Devoir. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  3. ^ Murphy, Caryle. "The Library of Alexandria." Archived 2013-09-20 at the Wayback Machine The Carnegie Reporter Vol. 5 No. 1 (2010)
  4. ^ Wakin, Daniel (2002-10-17). "Successor to Ancient Alexandria Library Dedicated". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Mourad, Mary. "Egypt State Awards recognises Hegazi, Hijab, Amin and Abdel-Sayed" Al Ahram 26 August 2013
  6. ^ "Mostafa el-Abbadi, Champion of Alexandria's Resurrected Library, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

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