ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Nadine A. Ghaffar founder of Art D’Égypte takes great pleasure in collaborating with all of her supporters on this ground breaking initiative.

My deepest gratitude goes to all of those who contributed in making this project come to see the light. For the trust, support and the undivided love of Egypt. Our light for Eternity.

Ministry of Antiquities, H.E. Dr. Khaled Al Anany

Dr. Mennat El Dorry

Iman Zidan

Ashraf Salah

Nevine Aref

Dr. Yasmine El Shazly

Mona Abdel Nazeer Sayed

Museum Director, Sabah Abdel Razik Saddik

Fatma El Zahrae Ragi

Eng. Mariam Salama

And all museum staff and employees

Thanks to H.E. Naser Kamel and Dalia El Batal Egyptian Ambassador in the United Kingdom for their support.

Special Thanks to all the companies that trusted us and contributed with in kind donations to the museum.

Philips for lighting the atrium with the newest museum lighting technology. Mohamed A. El Azayem John Fahmy and Hossam Nabawy for making it happen.

Allam Sons for renovating the washrooms, specially Eng. Hassan Allam and Eng. Mohamed El Assar .

Inertia for renovating areas in the garden and creating our museum exhibition display. Their amazing team for making it possible Eng. Hussein Rifai and Eng. Tarek Salem

Thanks to our partners who contributed in turning this into a beautiful night Abercrombie & Kent :

Mr. Amr Badr for his great support and motivation from the very beginning. His amazing team: Mrs. Heba Matar and Mrs. Dalia Khater .

Prolite Mr. Baher George for the lights projector and screen.

Four Seasons Nile Plaza for the Ancient Egyptian tasting ceremony.

Sawiris Foundation for the great work they do in Egypt. Special Thanks to Eng. Samih Sawiris for his support, trust and guidance. Dina Nagaty for assistance in every step

Dr. Mounir Neamatalla for believing, encouraging and driving the project forward.

Thomas William , Eng. Ramez Azmy and Nancy Adel for all the logistics.

Barjeel Art Foundation and their entire team, Mandy Merzaban and Karim Sultan for supporting the curatorial work. Imran Ahmed Kamal for taking care of all the logistics. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi founder of Barjeel for his immense support and undivided commitment to arts of the Arab world. His passion and support to Art D’Égypte initiative has made it possible for Night at the Museum to see the light.

Our gratitude goes towards Dr. Gemma Tully , Valérie Didier-Hess , Mehri Khalil , Nadine Nour and Noura Abla as contributors to this publication.

The Nile Ritz-Carlton team: Mr. Tawfik Mokhtar Gorgette Fakhry , Mr. Elhamy Azmy and Islam Sherif Marriott team and Mr. Aly Abou El Gheit .

Our esteemed printing partner Sahara Printing Company and, above all, its CEO Nadim Elias for being a true supporter of the art scene in Egypt.

To the galleries that collaborated with Art D’Égypte : Karim Francis , Mashrabia , Cheim & Read , The Third Line and Gypsum

Rasheed Kamel f or his legal advice (Kamel Law).

To all those who believed in me and supported from day one: Thanks to the Art D’Égypte team and partners who contributed tremendously to the success of ‘Eternal Light’. My deepest gratitude to my beloved family, friends, Zahrbanelians , Karim Wissa , Sorraya Bahgat , Dr. Hossam Rashwan , Sherine Badrawi , Dr. Mohamed Awad , Jane Smithe for the vessels, Rima Maktabi , Ghena Al Hariri for helping with the invitations, Dr. Ramzy Dalloul the godfather, and Bassel Dalloul

Dr. Zahi Hawass for agreeing to be part of this initiative, his encouragement and support were of utmost importance to me. To Maryan Soby for being a great assistant.

Walid El Batouty for taking care of all the guided tours and being part of this initiative from its creation. Special thanks to the finest team of Egyptian tour guides for accompanying our guests.

Veradeco design house team: Eng. Raghda Mohsen and Eng. Rawan Abdulhalim for their dedication and attention to full details designing all gallery exhibition and museum display units. Mohamed Saad for assisting in every possible way.

Big thank you to the Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts - Makan (ECCA) for providing us with all the musical performances. Makan aims to record and present traditional music and musicians in Egypt. By researching and documenting traditional music, safeguarding and re-establishing popular traditions.

Ahmed Maghrabi and Phillipe and Olivia Maari

Thank you to our logistics partner: our banking partner: and our media partners: