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March 6, 2002
Ritual Purity as an Identity Marker in Late Period Egypt
Jacco Dieleman, PhD, Leiden University

April 13, 2002
Reeds Under the Pyramid: Islamic Calligraphy
Mamoun Sakkal
Islamic Calligrapher and Architect

June 22, 2002
Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors
Scott Noegel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
University of Washington

September 26, 2002
Osiris and Kingship: The Dark Side of the Sun
Stephen Quirke, PhD, Egyptologist
Assistant Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
University College London, Petrie Museum
Project Manager for Digital Egypt for Universities

October 5, 2002
Hieroglyphs for Parents and Kids
Scott Noegel , PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
University of Washington

November 7, 2002
Egypt's Lost World of the Fayum: Ancient Beasts
and Pharaohs

Anthony Cagle, PhD, Anthropologist
University of Washington

December 5, 2002
The Mummy! A Behind-the-Scenes Visit to the Burke
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Conducted by Laura Phillips, Archaeology Collections Manager, and Susan Cottman, ARCE/NW Vice President

March 8, 2003
The Mummy in the Drawing Room
W Benson Harer, Jr, MD

April 10, 2003
Ancient Egypt and the Mamluks: Architecture and Appropriation
Karen Mathews, PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

May 22, 2003
Camels to Khartoum: Breasted's Expedition to Egypt and the Sudan
Emily Teeter, PhD, Oriental Institute Research Associate and Curator of Egyptian and Nubian Antiquities at the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago

October 2, 2003
Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I

Donald Malcolm Reid, PhD, Georgia State University

October 25, 2003
Make An Ancient Egyptian Mummy and Coffin

Instructors: Susan Cottman, ARCE/NW and Louisa Schreier, Seattle Art Museum

November 1, 2003
Mummies — Up Close and Personal
Paul LeRoy, PhD, Professor Emeritus of African History, Central Washington University

November 15, 2003
Egyptomania: From Cleopatra to Hollywood
Bob Brier, PhD, CW Post Campus, Long Island University

February 5, 2004
Cairo of the Arabian Nights
Paula Sanders, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Rice University

March 4, 2004
The Egypt Tourists Rarely See
Alan Kaye, Professor of Linguistics, University of California at Fullerton

April 29, 2004
Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive From the Nile Valley

Edward Bleiberg, Associate Curator in the Department of Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Middle Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

May 17, 2004
The Ancient Egyptian Sense of Humor
Carol Andrews, Lecturer in Egyptology, University of London

September 2, 2004
Lucie Duff Gordon in Egypt
Brian Hunt, ARCE/NW

October 24, 2005
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Kathlyn Cooney,
Stanford University

November 3, 2005
An Ancient Egyptian Bibliophile and Some of His Favorite Authors
Leonard Lesko, Brown University

April 3, 2006
The Vitality of Egyptian Images in Late Antique Christian Memory and Response
David Frankfurter, Princeton University

September 19, 2006
Consort of Amun-Re: The Temple Precinct of the Goddess Mut at South Karnak
Richard Fazzini, Brooklyn Museum of Art

October 19, 2006
"Commanded to Speak by God and His Prophet:" Religious Authority in Medieval Egypt

Jonathan Berkey, Davidson College

November 9, 2006
Life and Religion at Tell el-Amarna
Barry Kemp, Cambridge University

November 30, 2006
Who Killed King Tut?
Benson Harer, Jr., MD, Adjunct Prof., Dept. of Humanities, CSUSB

January 11, 2007
Crocodile Mummies, Nazis, and the Garden of Eden: Unpublished Italian Excavations at Tebtunis in the Fayum
Ian Begg, Trent University, Ontario

April 12, 2007
Egyptian Mural Painting: Ten Years' Cleaning and Conservation

Michael Jones, ARCE, Cairo

December 6, 2007
Claiming the Pharaohs: Egyptian Archaeology in the Age of Empire and After
Donald Malcolm Reid, Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University

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