With support from fellow archaeologist Klaus Brisch and funding from the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst,[3] Sadeq developed his doctoral thesis into a book, published by Klaus Schwarz Verlag in 1991.[4]Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza was a survey ofIslamic architecture in Gaza.[5] Also in 1991 Sadeq co-founded the Faculty of Education in Gaza, which later becameAl-Aqsa University.[6]
Part of the trial excavations under Sadeq's direction atTell es-Sakan in 1999
ThePalestinian National Authority established the Department of Antiquities in 1994 with responsibility for managing Palestine'scultural heritage sites.[7] Sadeq was one of the founders of the department's Gaza branch,[8] and is an expert on Gaza's archaeology.[9] In his role as Director of the Department of Antiquities in Gaza, Sadeq was involved in a number of archaeological projects, such as the Gaza Research Project which began in 1996 and was led byLouise Steel,Joanne Clarke, and Sadeq. The project searched for evidence of archaeological remains dating to theBronze Age in the region.[10] Sadeq discovered a Bronze Age site in 1996,al-Moghraqa, which became one of the foci of the Gaza Research Project and underwent excavation.[11] In 1999, Sadeq andPeter Fischer led excavations atTell el-‘Ajjul which was last excavated in the 1930s.[12] Along withHamdan Taha, the head of the Department of Antiquities, Sadeq was involved with negotiations with Israel about thereturn of artefacts excavated in Palestine during the Israeli occupation.[13]
Building projects in Gaza led to the discovery of new archaeological sites such asTell es-Sakan, a Bronze Age fortified settlement discovered in 1998 where Sadeq led archaeological investigations withPierre de Miroschedji between 1999 and 2000.[14][15] The site began as anEgyptian settlement before it was abandoned and reinhabited by theCanaanites; Tell es-Sakan is the oldest known Egyptian fortification to have been excavated.[16]
With archaeological fieldwork in Gaza impractical due to conflict with Israel, Sadeq left Gaza in 2007[8] and moved to Canada where, through theScholars at Risk project, he worked atMassey College and theRoyal Ontario Museum.[17] In 2010, Sadeq was a visiting professor at the Institute for Global Citizenship atCentennial College in Canada.[6][2] In August that year, Sadeq took up a position teaching archaeology atQatar University.[17][8]
Humbert, Jean-Baptiste; Sadeq, Moain (2000). "Fouilles de Blakhiyah-Anthédon". In Humbert, Jean-Baptiste (ed.).Gaza Méditerranéenne: Histoire et archéologie en Palestine (in French). Éditions Errance. pp. 105–120.
de Miroschedji, Pierre; Sadeq, Moain; Faltings, Dina; Boulez, Virginie; Naggiar-Moliner, Laurence;Sykes, Naomi; Tengberg, Margareta (2001), "Les fouilles de Tell es-Sakan (Gaza): nouvelles données sur les contacts égypto-cananéens aux IVe-IIIe millénaires",Paléorient (in French),27 (2):75–104,doi:10.3406/paleo.2001.4732
Steel, Louise; Clarke, Joanne; Sadeq, Moain; Manley, Bill; McCarthy, Andrew; Munro, R. Neil (2004), "Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 seasons at al-Moghraqa",Levant,36:37–88,doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37
Fischer, P. M.; Sadeq, Moain (2004). "Tell el-'Ajjul 2000: Second Season Preliminary Report".Ägypten und Levante.12:109–154.doi:10.1553/AEundL12s109.
de Miroschedji, Pierre; Sadeq, Moain (2005). "The frontier of Egypt in the Early Bronze Age: preliminary soundings at Tell es-Sakan (Gaza Strip)". In Clarke, Joanne (ed.).Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Council for British Research in the Levant. pp. 155–169.ISBN978-1-84217-168-4.JSTORj.ctv310vqks.24.
Sadeq, Moain (2014). "An Overview of Iron Age Gaza in Light of the Archaeological Evidence". In Spencer, John R.; Mullins, Robert A.; Brody, Aaron J. (eds.).Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin. Penn State University Press. pp. 239–254.doi:10.1515/9781575068787-019.
^Atrache, Laila (1994). "Review of Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 144".Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft.144 (1):192–195.JSTOR43378682.
^Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1994). "Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza, by Sadek Mohamed-Moain. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 144) 700 pages, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1991. (Paper) ISBN 3-922968-76-7".Middle East Studies Association Bulletin.28 (1):124–125.doi:10.1017/S0026318400029205.
^Clarke, Joanne; Steel, Louise; Sadeq, Moain (2004), "Gaza Research Project: 1998 Survey of the Old City of Gaza",Levant,36: 31,doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.31
^Steel, Louise; Clarke, Joanne; Sadeq, Moain; Manley, Bill; McCarthy, Andrew; Munro, R. Neil (2004), "Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 Seasons at al-Moghraqa",Levant,36: 37,doi:10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37
^Fischer, Peter M.; Sadeq, Moain (2000). "Tell el-ʿAjjul 1999. A Joint Palestinian Swedish Field Project: First Season Preliminary Report".Egypt and the Levant.10:211–226.JSTOR23783495.
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