21

Jun

ARCE-NT: Traveling to Egypt: Everything You Wanted to Know

Presented by: Anna MacKay, operator of Your Journey travel, Janis Susan May, author and Dee Dee Asad. Panel Moderated by Teri Kuhlmann.

Sponsored by: Southern Methodist University’s Clements Department of History

  • 7:00 PM (EST)North Texas
  • In-PersonLocation: Southern Methodist University Fondren Science Building Room 123
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Lecture Information

Join us for an informative evening learning what it is like to travel to Egypt in the 21st century. Our panel offers a variety of perspectives from a frequent tourist, a frequent tour leader, and a business owner in Egypt. If you are curious about Egypt, get answers to your questions. The safety and political climate, the new Grand Egyptian Museum and the best places to see will be on the agenda. Anna MacKay frequently leads expert-led history tours of Egypt and Janis Susan May Patterson has travelled to Egypt over 10 times and even writes about it. Please come and get to know our group. North Texas ARCE Vice President of Programs Teri Kuhlmann will be the moderator.

Speaker Bio

Anna MacKay, operator of Your Journey Travel: A true veteran of the travel industry, Anna has been exploring the world and helping other people explore it since 1982 and her attention to detail when creating a trip borders on an obsession. She has crawled through dozens or tombs and pyramids in Egypt – and raised thousands for archaeology sites and Egypt animal sanctuaries. As an extraordinary travel planner, Anna takes the time to ask the right questions and listen carefully to the answers. In this way, she inspires confidence and helps put people at ease on the journey they are about to embark.

 

 

Janis Susan May Patterson, novelist and Egyptophile, loves to indulge her deep and abiding love of Egyptology. She and her husband, retired Navy Captain Hiram Patterson, have traveled to Egypt 10 times and are well-seasoned travelers.

In 1992 Janis Susan was a member of the Organizing Committee which founded the North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, which is arguably the largest association of working Egyptologists in the world. Janis Susan began and for nine years was publisher/editor of the NT/ARCE Newsletter, which during her reign was the only monthly publication for ARCE in the world as well as being catalogued as a scholarly journal in many national and international museums and universities.

In 2005, Janis Susan was the closing speaker for the International Conference of ARCE in Boston. Her Egyptological work gave Janis Susan some very special benefits of which she would never have dreamed, including a chance to stay at the El Kab dig house to write A KILLING AT EL KAB. Many of her other murder mysteries and romance novels are set in Egypt or have Egyptian themes, including The Egyptian File, Passion’s Choice, Colossus, and Lure of the Mummy.

 

 

Dee Dee Asad, owner of Little Egypt, makes several trips to Egypt each year in search of the finest treasures for her Garland store.