About the Author

Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef is professor of Egyptology at al-Azhar University in Cairo. He has served as director-general of the Center of Documentation on Ancient Egypt and as vice-president of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization. Fayza Haikal is professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and former president of the International Association of Egyptologists. Golo is a leading cartoonist whose drawings appear regularly in the Cairo Times. He illustrated Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? by Galal Amin (AUC Press, 2000).