Nagwa Abdelzaher Mohamed Bakr

Biography

Nagwa has two master’s degrees in Anthropology and Museum Studies and she has recently completed her PhD which focussed on the representation of women’s heritage in museums.

As a Community Engagement Officer at the Ministry of Antiquities, Nagwa is in charge of setting up community programmes aiming to engage local communities to benefit from the public knowledge available in museums and sites. Her projects especially target women and their engagement with local heritage and traditional crafts workshops.

Most recently, Nagwa worked on a project called The Library Museum Project. By collaborating with professional libraries such as ARCE, IFAO, Alexandria Library and the library of the Egyptian Museum, the project focuses on understanding museum collections through library materials to reinterpret and shed new light on objects from the collections.

During her time on the International Training Programme in 2019, Nagwa was based in the Department of Egypt and Sudan, and her partner placement was spent at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery.

At the British Museum

During her time on the International Training Programme in 2019, Nagwa was based in the Department of Egypt and Sudan, and her partner placement was spent at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery.

Nagwa worked with Sanjeewani Upaka Widyarathne (Sri Lanka) on her Object in focus project. Their exhibition proposal was titled Spiritual Journey.