Dr Kara Cooney [ 13/Oct/14 ]

Post date: Oct 12, 2014 1:29:32 PM

Jerry Guirguis interview Kara Cooney, Egyptologist, Author of the newly released book titled [ The Woman who would be King ], the remarkable true story of HATSHEPSUT, a Mother, Master Political strategist and a Pharaoh, Kara will be speaking to us Live-to-air all the way from California Los Angeles on 96.5FM studio – Egyptian radio show [ Monday 13^th October 2014, Melbourne ].

6:30pm – Our 1^st special guests tonight is Dr. Kathlyn M. Cooney – [ Kara Cooney ]

exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. She was a member of the teaching staff at Stanford and Howard University.

In 2005, she acted as fellow curator for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Raised in Houston,

she obtained her B.A. from the University of Texas.

Kara worked on two Discovery Channel documentary series: Out of Egypt, first aired in August 2009, and Egypt's Lost Queen,

which also featured Dr. Zahi Hawass.

Books

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt [ Released Oct 2014 ]

The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period (2007)^[2]

Kara Cooney

Egyptologist

www.karacooney.com

Associate Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA

University of California Los Angeles [ UCLA ]

Author - The Woman who would BE KING

[ The remarkable true story of HATSHEPSUT, Mother, Master Political strategist and Pharaoh ]

Hi and welcome

can we start with Q1] Congratulations on the release of your 2nd book

Would you say Hatsepsut was an iron lady

Q2] How would she compare to today’s leaders

Q3] Why are we so focused [ Humanity ] on achieving immortality?

Q4] Did you use the same publisher for this book

Jerry Guirguis

Presenter

96.5FM – Egyptian radio show

+61 400 718 817

www.innerfm.org.au

studio : +61 3 9457 1718

CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com ]