Ahmed Obeid for technical affairs... Eman Zidan for finance and investment... and Elham Salah as advisor for new museums
Dr. Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Antiquities, issued a number of ministerial decrees, assigning Ahmed Obeid to serve as assistant to the Minister of Antiquities for technical affairs and the minister's office, succeeding Dr. Mostafa Amin, who reaches the legal retirement age next November.
His most prominent tasks include the general supervision of the minister's office, assisting the minister in supervising the implementation of the ministry's policies regarding all financial, administrative, legal and archaeological work, and coordinating between the ministry's various sectors.
In a related context, the Minister of Antiquities decided to assign Eman Zidan to serve as assistant to the Minister of Antiquities for financial resources development and investment. She will take on the general supervision of the ministry's Financial Resources Development Unit, setting the policies needed to increase financial resources, preparing and developing the regulations on commercial sponsorship, as well as studying the investment opportunities presented to the ministry, and other related tasks.
New Head of the Museums Sector Comes From the Ministry's Own Cadres
As part of the Ministry of Antiquities' efforts to rely on outstanding cadres from among its own staff and empower them to assume various leadership positions, Dr. Khaled El-Enany issued a decree appointing Moamen Othman as head of the Museums Sector, succeeding Elham Salah, who has been appointed advisor to the Minister of Antiquities for new museums. Othman had held the post of director general of restoration at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir.
Othman rose through many positions within the ministry's organizational structure, starting as a restoration specialist at the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, then the Rashid National Museum, then head of the papyrus laboratory at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir. From 2012 he held the post of head of the organic antiquities laboratory at the Grand Egyptian Museum until 2015.
He also obtained a diploma in art from the Academy of Arts in Florence in 2005 and a diploma in tour guiding from Helwan University in 2007, and has completed studies in museum sciences in Italy and Japan, in addition to many training courses in the conservation and display of museum objects, the restoration, storage and display of papyri and murals, and the display of manuscripts and documents inside and outside Egypt.
Othman has translated some scientific books from Italian into Arabic, in addition to reviewing and preparing the scientific material for some books on restoration theories and scientific journals on antiquities and world heritage, and has published many scientific papers in English and Italian.
He also took part in several international conferences, most notably the International Congress of Papyrology in 2016 and 2017, the International Conference on Pharaonic Coffins at the Vatican in 2017, and the ICCROM international conference in Italy in 2017, representing Egypt.
