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Moain Sadeq

Moain Sadeq (Arabic: معين صادق) is a Palestinian-Canadian archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of Gaza. He teaches at Qatar University and has worked at colleges in Canada. After completing a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin, Sadeq co-founded the Faculty of Education in Gaza, which later became Al-Aqsa University. In 1994, Sadeq co-founded the Department of Antiquities of Gaza. While working at department, Sadeq jointly led excavations at Tell es-Sakan and Tell el-‘Ajjul.

Moain Sadeq
معين صادق
Born1955 (age 68–69)[2]
Khan Yunis, Palestine
CitizenshipPalestinian-Canadian[1]
Occupations
  • Archaeologist
  • University lecturer
Academic background
Education
ThesisDie mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza (1991)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-discipline
Institutions
  • Department of Antiquities of Gaza
  • Qatar University

Early life and education

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Sadeq was born in Khan Yunis in Palestine.[1] Sadeq graduated from the Cairo University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic archaeology. He then studied at the Free University of Berlin, completing a doctorate in Islamic history and archaeology.[3]

Career

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With support from fellow archaeologist Klaus Brisch and funding from the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst,[4] Sadeq developed his doctoral thesis into a book, published by Klaus Schwarz Verlag in 1991.[5] Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza was a survey of Islamic architecture in Gaza.[6] Also in 1991 Sadeq co-founded the Faculty of Education in Gaza, which later became Al-Aqsa University.[7]

 
Part of the trial excavations under Sadeq's direction at Tell es-Sakan in 1999

The Palestinian National Authority established the Department of Antiquities in 1994 with responsibility for managing Palestine's cultural heritage sites.[8] Sadeq was one of the founders of the department's Gaza branch,[9] and is an expert on Gaza's archaeology.[10] In his role as Director of the Department of Antiquities in Gaza, Sadeq was involved in a number of archaeological projects, such as the Gaza Research Project which began in 1996 and was led by Louise Steel, Joanne Clarke, and Sadeq. The project searched for evidence of archaeological remains dating to the Bronze Age in the region.[11] Sadeq discovered a Bronze Age site in 1996, al-Moghraqa, which became one of the foci of the Gaza Research Project and underwent excavation.[12] In 1999, Sadek and Peter M. Fischer led excavations at Tell el-‘Ajjul which was last excavated in the 1930s.[13]

Building projects in Gaza led to the discovery of new archaeological sites such as Tell es-Sakan, a Bronze Age fortified settlement discovered in 1998 where Sadeq led archaeological investigations with Pierre de Miroschedji between 1999 and 2000.[14][15] The site began as an Egyptian settlement before it was abandoned and reinhabited by the Canaanites; Tell es-Sakan is the oldest known Egyptian fortification to have been excavated.[16]

With archaeological fieldwork in Gaza impractical due to conflict with Israel, Sadeq left Gaza in 2007[9] and moved to Canada where, through the Scholars at Risk project, he worked at Massey College and the Royal Ontario Museum.[17] In 2010, Sadeq was a visiting professor at the Institute for Global Citizenship at Centennial College in Canada.[7][3] In August that year, Sadeq took up a position teaching archaeology at Qatar University.[17][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b Sadeq, Moain (6 December 2023). "A Witness Report from Gaza's Ashes". The MENA Chronicle | Fanack. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Mohamed-Moain Sadek, 1955-". LUX: Yale Collections Discovery. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Mohammedmoin Sadeq, PhD: Abridged Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Qatar University. 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  4. ^ Sadeq, Moain (1991). Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza (in German). Klaus Schwarz Verlag. p. 12. doi:10.1515/9783112400968. ISBN 978-3-11-240096-8.
  5. ^ Atrache, Laila (1994). "Review of Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 144". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 144 (1): 192–195. JSTOR 43378682.
  6. ^ Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1994). "Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza, by Sadek Mohamed-Moain. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 144) 700 pages, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1991. (Paper) ISBN 3-922968-76-7". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 28 (1): 124–125. doi:10.1017/S0026318400029205.
  7. ^ a b "Centennial College: supporting academic freedom through Global Scholars at Risk Network". October 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  8. ^ Taha, Hamdan (2010). "The Current State of Archaeology in Palestine". Present Pasts. 2 (1): 16–17. doi:10.5334/pp.17.
  9. ^ a b c Shuttleworth, Kate (16 October 2014). "Safeguarding Gaza's Ancient Past". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Palestine's neglected treasure trove". Al Jazeera. 22 December 2003. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  11. ^ Clarke, Joanne; Steel, Louise; Sadeq, Moain (2004), "Gaza Research Project: 1998 Survey of the Old City of Gaza", Levant, 36: 31, doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.31
  12. ^ Steel, Louise; Clarke, Joanne; Sadeq, Moain; Manley, Bill; McCarthy, Andrew; Munro, R. Neil (2004), "Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 Seasons at al-Moghraqa", Levant, 36: 37, doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37
  13. ^ Fischer, Peter M.; Sadeq, Moain (2000). "Tell el-ʿAjjul 1999. A Joint Palestinian Swedish Field Project: First Season Preliminary Report". Egypt and the Levant. 10: 211–226. JSTOR 23783495.
  14. ^ de Miroschedji, Pierre; Sadeq, Moain (2000b), "Tell es-Sakan, un site du Bronze ancien découvert dans la région de Gaza (information)", Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (in French), 144 (1): 127, doi:10.3406/crai.2000.16103
  15. ^ de Miroschedji, Pierre; Sadeq, Moain; Faltings, Dina; Boulez, Virginie; Naggiar-Moliner, Laurence; Sykes, Naomi; Tengberg, Margareta (2001), "Les fouilles de Tell es-Sakan (Gaza): nouvelles données sur les contacts égypto-cananéens aux IVe-IIIe millénaires", Paléorient (in French), 27 (2): 78–79, doi:10.3406/paleo.2001.4732
  16. ^ de Miroschedji, Pierre; Sadeq, Moain (2008). "Sakan, Tell es-". The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Vol. 5: Supplementary Volume. Israel Exploration Society/Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS). Retrieved 15 July 2024 – via BAS Library.
  17. ^ a b Luengo, Anna (2010), "Scholars-at-Risk at Massey", Massey News, p. 29

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