Mostafa El-Abbadi

Mostafa Abdel-Hamid el-Abbadi (; 10 October 1928 – 13 February 2017) was a prominent Egyptian historian, public intellectual and professor specialized in Greco-Roman studies.

Education El-Abbadi was educated in Egypt and the United Kingdom. He completed his undergraduate BA at Alexandria University. At age 22, he was awarded a scholarship from the Egyptian government to study at the University of Cambridge. He graduated with special BA and PhD in ancient history at Cambridge. but he was not invited to the opening. He was critical of some of aspects of the project as realized by the Egyptian government, telling the New York Times that the library was at risk of becoming "a cultural center" rather than fulfilling its "promise as a world-class research center." He authored the Library of Alexandria entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Selected works What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria? Leiden: Brill (2008). The Life and Fate of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Paris: UNESCO (1990, 1992, 1999). "The Alexandrian Citizenship," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1962).