2020
Rich Egyptian archive of photos, artifacts, and more comes to NYU Abu Dhabi Library
Over 40 boxes of correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs, offer valuable insight into the life of the famous Egyptian poet, doctor, and bee scientist Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi
The collection will be available for use in the Archives and Special Collections department of the NYU Abu Dhabi Library
Abu Dhabi, UAE – September 27, 2020: The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Library has acquired the archive of Egyptian poet, publisher, medical doctor, and bee scientist Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, who lived from 1892-1955. Containing over 40 boxes of correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs, as well as paintings and artifacts, the archive was acquired from Abu Shadi’s granddaughter, Joy Amina Garnett, earlier this year…
Yalla – Abu Dhabi Life: Exciting unpublished works from Egypt have arrived in Abu Dhabi.
The Egyptian photos, paintings, manuscripts and artifacts span almost 150 years
Abu Dhabi Education Guide. RICH EGYPTIAN ARCHIVE OF PHOTOS, ARTIFACTS, AND MORE COMES TO NYU ABU DHABI LIBRARY
2019
The Daily Star (Lebanon), (Dec. 28), Perhaps it’s time for a ‘Sea Change’, by Jim Quilty. Review of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, Issue 8 “Sea Change”. [PDF: The Daily Star (Lebanon)12.28.19]
“Joy Amina Garnett’s memoir-like “The Sea Takes up Residence in All Parts of the City” recounts the female narrator’s stay in Alexandria, where she combed through old book shops, searching for traces of the poetry her grandfather had published in the ’30s. Her search is accompanied by a man – a researcher, perhaps a lover – who shared her interests. He is the second-person subject to whom her narrative is addressed but is, like her deceased grandfather, absent from the narrator’s present.”
Bee World CENTENNIAL ISSUE – Volume 96, 2019 – Issue 2 (JUNE)
Around the Bee World in 100 Years, by Robert Brodschneider, p. 33 (23 Apr 2019). Download PDF: Around the Bee World in 100 Years 8_26_2019
Bee World – The First Hundred Years, by Richard Jones, Karl Showler & Robert Brodschneider (Editor of Bee World), pp. 34-39 (23 Apr 2019). Download PDF: Bee World – The First Hundred Years 8_26_2019
2014
The New York Times: ART IN REVIEW (February 2014): The Wayland Rudd Collection, at Winkleman Gallery, by Holland Cotter [PDF].
“Other artists simply go with what it means to be a stranger in a strange land. Joy Garnett documents the short, elusive, embattled life of Ismail Ahmed Edham (1911-1940), an Egyptian writer (and distant relative of the artist) [sic!] who claimed to have been educated in Russia.”
2013
“Digitizing a Beloved Egyptian Scholar’s Archive” by Mostafa Heddaya for Hyperallergic (Dec 2013). Ahmed Zaky Abushady was a polymath in the Victorian mold, a preeminent Egyptian literary figure, bee scientist, inventor, and physician who found pathways between modes of thought and scholarship long before “interdisciplinary” became an academic catchall. Read full article here.
The Bee Kingdom 