Shafek was a servant of a cult that worshipped the High Priest Imhotep and who would later come to an end at the point of a spear.
Biography
Shafek was a servant that stood quietly as events occurred, as his job title required him to do. As the cultists searched for a way to seize power and to return life to the High Priest Imhotep, Shafek assisted them by any means possible.
Dig at Hamunaptra
Shafek and the other cultists had established a dig site at the ruins of Hamanaptra, where they searched for three items that served up some importance to the cultist group: the Book of the Dead, the Book of the Living, and the preserved corpse of the former High Priest of Osiris, Imhotep. Enlisting the efforts of hundreds of local diggers, the cultist group had begun to dig at the ruins, finding first the two books before a loud rumbling sound that shook the earth below all at the site erupted. At the base of a large pit that the diggers were making, a pile of sand began to rise. With that, the sand gave way to a swarm of carnivorous scarab beetles that devoured many of the diggers and others before they could be stopped by cultist thugs wielding flamethrowers. To the cultist Meela Nais, the sound of diggers being mauled meant that they were getting close to their prize; Meela mused on this as she passed by a limousine that Shafek was holding open for her. At that moment, one digger called out that he had found something, which sent all present, digger and cultist alike, running to the find. Once the cultists had all reached the area, they knew that the diggers had, at last, discovered the remains of Imhotep, as they were encased in a thick, yellow, amber-like substance.
As the cultists all beheld with awe their fallen leader, Shafek brought forth a blue-and-gold urn that Lock-Nah identified as "those that serve him", and three thieves that had been chartered by Hafez, Spivey, Red, and Jacques, reported that a certain Bracelet that they were meant to retrieve had been taken by a rival group, the O'Connell family. After a heated debate with some of the cultists at the point of their weapons, Meela stopped the debate and soon after the question arose as to where the Bracelet had gotten: Red stated that it was bound for London, leaving the cultists to all leave to London.
In London
Shafek, along with several other cultists including Lock-Nah and Meela Nais, had reached the O'Connell family's home in London and were seeking the chest containing the Bracelet of Anubis. Shafek headed upstairs, along with Hafez, Meela, and cultist thugs to interrogate Rick O'Connell. The cultists found Jonathan Carnahan instead, and mistook him for O'Connell. As Hafez demanded to know where the Bracelet of Anubis was, Shafek held Jonathan back in a chair by holding a dagger to his throat. Shafek continued to hold the dagger even as Meela threatened Jonathan with an Egyptian asp. Meela stepped closer with the asp until the real Rick O'Connell walked in, thinking the cultists to be guests in another of Jonathan's parties. Rick was about to ask the cultists to cease their threats, but was stopped when Meela threw her snake at him. O'Connell caught the snake and flung it at a cultist thug. Shafek then withdrew a dagger and threw it at O'Connell, but O'Connell caught it and tossed it back. Shafek instinctively dodged the blade as it hit another thug. At that, the thugs began to open fire on O'Connell and Jonathan, who escaped by jumping through a window. Shafek and the others left once their compatriots downstairs had taken Evelyn and the chest containing the Bracelet.
Shafek and the other cultists then headed back to the British Museum of Antiquities, where, in the loading docks, they began to perform the ritual that would bring Imhotep back to life. Shafek kneeled down and held the Book of the Dead up for Hafez to read from. The ritual was completed and Imhotep returned to life. Imhotep was introduced to Meela Nais, who claimed to be his lover, Anck-su-Namun, reincarnated, which Imhotep acknowledged, and remarked that she was his lover only in body, but after bringing her soul back from the Underworld, she would be entirely her true self. Meela then presented Imhotep with a gift: Evelyn O'Connell, who was bound up and about to be thrown into a large flaming stone basin. At that moment, O'Connell came into the loading docks and rescued Evelyn from the fires before she could be harmed. Drawing out guns, the O'Connells began to fire upon the cultists, with cover fire from Ardeth Bay, a Medjai warrior. Shafek, along with other cultists, fought back against the O'Connells and Ardeth, eventually winning the battle and forcing them off as Imhotep opened the same urn that the cultists had found at Hamunaptra. From the urn came four torrents of sand which materialised as four mummified warriors that were commanded by Imhotep. The mummies then broke through the museum walls and pursued Ardeth and the O'Connells.