About A. A. Aziz

The Author: A. A. Aziz

He began his working life as a professional astronomer and mathematician, working first as a research fellow and then a University Lecturer, probing the Universe with pen and machine. When in his forties, he exchanged a career in IT Consultancy and retrained to become a Genealogist and Architectural Historian, when he was employed by individuals and Estate Agents to research the history of ‘Listed Buildings’ ranging in age from the early Medieval to the Edwardian era. He was a regular contributor of articles for Family History and Period Property magazines, as well as having his work featured in the UK National Press and Television.

His book – ‘The Field of Reeds’ was written out of his passion for Egypt and its ancient past; a passion which first began in his childhood. Since then, he has travelled the length and breadth of this country of the ‘bee and the sedge’ on many occasions, either on business or on holiday. He has studied its history and the language of the hieroglyphs; walked in the footsteps of the Pharaohs, visited their sacred ‘Houses of Eternity’ and looked in awe upon their temples. It is a land that is in his blood and from which this book was born.

Acknowledgements
“I would like to thank the characters of this my book, who actually lived the lives described in its pages; for without them it could never have been written. Their voices speaking to me across the ages from a place we all seek but very few of us will ever find. For they have found everlasting life amongst ‘The Field of Reeds’.” A. A. Aziz

Dedication
*To Patricia, my very own Flossie; whose love and support have been with me these past twenty years; ever since I first gazed upon the Old Luxor Hotel and met with my benefactor.*