Naguib Kanawati AM FAHA (born 1941) is an Egyptian Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
[1][2][3] Kanawati was born in Alexandria, Egypt[4] to a Melkite Greek Catholic family of Syro-Lebanese descent.
He subsequently joined the academic staff of the university, as lecturer in History (1980–1983), and Associate Professor in Egyptology (1984–1990).
[5] From 1990, Kanawati became Macquarie University's first Professor in Egyptology and holds a Personal Chair in that subject.
[1] Kanawati's research interests focus on the Old Kingdom period of Egypt, its burial customs, art history, and socio-political development.