Finissage of the Exhibition 'Elephantine. Island of the Millennia'

Friday, 25 October 2024, 6.30 pm
Auditorium of the James-Simon-Galerie, Museum Island Berlin

Cordial invitation to the finissage of the exhibition "Elephantine. Island of the Millennia"

Welcome
Frithjof Maennel
Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
 
Julia von Blumenthal
President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 
Mohamed Ahmed Abdellatif Ibrahim
Professor of Arabic Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Mansoura University, Egypt
 
Verena Lepper
Curator of the Exhibition, Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Berlin, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA),
Director of the Institute of Near Eastern and Hellenistic Religion at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 
Featuring a reading of ancient texts from the exhibition.
 
"A Walk on Elephantine - From Past to Future"
Guided tours with contemporary Arab-German perspectives by AGYA members Tilal Abdelhalim (Biotechnology, Khartoum/Tübingen), Dawud Ansari (Economics, Berlin), Ghada Mohamed (Egyptology, Cairo), Lena-Maria Möller (Middle Eastern Law, Hamburg/Doha), Suhair Sunoqrot (Pharmacy, Amman), Adam Talib (Arabic Philology, Cairo). With special contributions by Eid Mertah (Egyptology, Cairo) and Ahmed Kamal (Arabic Philology, Cairo).
 
Musical Delights by Wust el Balad       
 
Please register until 19 October at: aemp@smb.spk-berlin.de.
Kindly find further information on the exhibition here.
 
Exhibition dates
26.04. – 27.10.2024
An exhibition of the
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanitites (AGYA)