I was born in Luxor, near the mountains of the Valley of the Kings. My family carved stone — Pharaonic artifacts, the same craft that shaped this landscape for thousands of years. I grew up watching visitors from every part of the world arrive and leave changed. I wanted to understand why.
I studied history at Ain Shams University in Cairo — Pharaonic, Roman, Greek, Christian, Islamic. Egypt does not have one past. It has five or six layered on top of each other, and the walls will show you all of them if you know where to look. After graduation I obtained my Ministry of Tourism license and went to work.
Seventeen years of work. First at major tourism companies — hotels, Nile cruises, domestic logistics — where I learned the infrastructure of how people move through this country. Then, some years ago, I became self-employed. I work with a small number of clients at a time. I do not take group bookings. I am not a platform.
I have also worked alongside archaeological missions in Luxor, and — like my father and grandfather — I am a stone carver. The craft keeps me close to the material. There is something different about understanding a wall when you have cut stone yourself.
What distinguishes me from other guides is simple: I love this. I love discovering antiquities and talking about them. That is not a marketing claim — it is why I still accept fewer than a dozen private clients in any given month rather than filling a bus. If you come here with real curiosity, I will match it.