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 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Invited as representative of Ain Shams University to the Workshop on Training Needs for Nile Basin Countries organized by the Regional Center for Training and Water Studies, 6-October city, Egypt, June 22-23, 2005.

•  Chairman of Session "Hydraulic Structures 1", IV International Symposium on Environmental Hydrology, Cairo, Egypt, June 7-9, 2005.

•  Invited to participate in the Seminar for the General Framework of Future Vision 2050 for the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Nile Valley Hall, NWRC, El-Kanater, Egypt, June 13, 2005.

•  Invited to participate in the Egyptian-Swiss Workshop on Virtual Water Strategy in Integrated Water Resource Management in Egypt, Nile Valley Hall, NWRC, El-Kanater, Egypt, June 6-7, 2005.

•  Invited to participate in the First National Conference for Scientific Research, organized by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo International Convention Center, Egypt, May 28-29, 2005.

•  Participant in the Microbiological Groundwater Monitoring Workshop, organized by National Water Research Center, NAWQAM project, held in Cairo, January 2005.

•  Member of Egypt Delegation, MELMARINA workshop, Tunisia, Nov 27 – Dec 2, presented Hydrology report findings, in Session I: Instrumentation, Hydrology and Modeling, INSTM, Salammbo, Nov 29.

•  Participant in the NAWQAM Stakeholder Consultation Conference, held at Stella Di Mare Resort, Ain Sokhna, Egypt, Dec 13-15, 2004.

•  Member of the Monitoring Team for HEEPF (Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund), a World Bank funded project in Egypt, 2004.

•  Participant in the second ICAMS workshop titled: 'Technical and Institutional frameworks for the Effective Assimilation of ICAMS products', organized by the FAO/ICAMS Nile Delta project, Concorde El Salam Hotel, Dec 20-21, 2003.

•  Participant and Presenter of Focus Group Discussion: Water Quality Information needs/gaps, Water Quality Stakeholders Workshop, NAWQAM project, organised by the National Water Quality Monitoring Component, Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, Ramsis Hilton, Cairo, May 31, 2003.

•  Chairman of session “Constructed Environment (2)”, Seventh National Conference, Towards a Better Environment: Present and Future, Cairo, Egypt, April 20-22, 2003.

• Reviewer of Research Projects, on water quality of soils, Scientific Research Council, Ministry of Higher Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2001.

• Reviewer of Papers for Water International Resources Association (IWRA) on GIS applications in integrated water resources management, 2002.

• Chairman of sessions WH (Wadi Hydrology) and GW3 (Groundwater), Third International Symposium of Environmental Hydrology, Cairo, Egypt, April 8-10, 2002.

• Chairman of session AP-V ‘GIS and RS Applications in Sustainable Development’, Member of Technical Review Committee, and Co-Editor of Recommendations Report, the OICC 7^th International Seminar on GIS Applications in Planning and Sustainable Development, Cairo, Egypt, Feb 13-15, 2001.

• Official Member of the State of Qatar Delegation to the “World Conference on Science: Science for the Twenty-First Century, A New Commitment”, June 26 to July 1, 1999, Budapest, Hungary.

• Member of the Technical Organisation Committee, and Rapporteur of  session Three on Water Resources Management, First Annual Conference and Exhibition on Water Technology, Doha, Qatar, March 22-24 1997.

• Reviewer of the papers submitted to the Third Gulf Water Conference, Session 7: ‘Municipal Water Systems’, Muscat,  Sultanate of Oman, March 8-12, 1997.

• Reviewer of technical papers for Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research, Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, and for Engineering Journal of University of Qatar.

• Editor of final report and Reporter for session A-1 on: 'Legal, organisational and institutional framework for waterfront development', International Symposium for Waterfront Development, held in Cairo, Egypt, September 15-17, 1994.

• Editor of the article: 'Rice Cultivation in the Nile Delta', in ‘Paddy Fields in the World’, written by Dr. Tsugihiro Watanabe of Kyoto University, Japan, pp. 53-68, JSIDRE, 1995, ISBN 4-88980-077-8 C 3061.

• Member of the Editorial Board for the ISAWIP (Integrated Soil and Water Improvement Project) final report. Member of the organising committee and Reporter for Group (7) on 'Cost Recovery', ISAWIP final seminar on 'Experiences in Integrated Land and Water Management', held in Port Said, Egypt, April 18-21, 1994. 

• Editor of final report and Reporter of session IV: 'Modelling and computer application to simulate the dynamics of the resource base and optimisation of its use', NILE 2002 conference, Aswan, Egypt, February 1-6, 1993.

• Member of the organising committee for the International Conference on Protection and Development of the Nile and Other Major Rivers, held in Cairo, Egypt, February 3-5, 1992.

• Member of the organising committee for the National Seminar on Physical Response of the River Nile to Interventions, held in Cairo, Egypt, November 12,13, 1990.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

• Executive Member of Qatar Toastmasters Club 2910-U (1996-2000).

• Member of Qatar Natural History Group (1994-2000)

• Represented Egypt in many educational and cultural events at McMaster University (1980-1987).

• Represented Egypt in International Scouting Conventions in Syria (1968), Turkey (1970) and Tunisia (1972).

Summary of Activities during Study and Academic Visits

Country                                : Germany

Duration                               : November and December 1990

Institute                               : LeichtweiSYMBOL 223 \f "Courier Euro" Technische Institut für Wasserbau,      

                                              Department of Hydrology

Inviting Prof.                        : Prof. Ulrich Maniak, head of Department

Cities visited                         : Braunschweig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg. 

Activities                               :

 

Orientation of laboratory and research facilities in the Institute, meeting other German scholars in different Fields of water resources, review of German literature, in German, on the subject of rainfall runoff research, developing a series of rainfall runoff models using spreadsheets, applying the models to Egyptian and German case studies, retrieving the data used for a German Ph.D. thesis on experimental rainfall runoff model and analyzing its results, writing a final report on findings.

 

Country                                : Japan

Duration                               : August to October, 1993

Institute                               : Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Agricultural Engineering Laboratory

Inviting Prof.                   : Prof. Maruyama, head of Laboratory

Cities visited                    : Kyoto, Tokyo, Kobe, Tskuba, Osaka, Shimane,Totory.  

Activities                         :              

 

Orientation of laboratory and research facilities in the Faculty, meeting many Japanese scholars, engineers, and researchers, exchange of research papers, taking part in the weekly department seminars, attending many conferences, and visiting many project areas outside the city of Kyoto, taking part in a field trip to inspect a newly reclaimed area, delivering a series of lectures on water resources in Egypt, side effects of the High Aswan Dam, and presenting my research papers related to the River Nile, hydrologic simulation, and optimal design of collection and distribution networks.

 

Country                             :Germany

Duration                            :June to August, 1994

Institute                            :LeichtweiSYMBOL 223 \f "Courier Euro" Institut für Wasserbau, Technical University

                                          of Brauschweing, Department of Water and Environmental Engineering.

Inviting Prof.                      :Prof. Wolfgang Mertens

Cities visited                       :Braunschweig, Berlin, Hanover, Soltau, Goslar. 

Activities                             :

 

conducting physical experiments to study similarity conditions for scour around cylindrical piers and spurs using sand and plastic granules, reviewing the research work, in German, on the hydraulic and sediment transport calculations for vegetated channels, developing a series of spreadsheets for such calculations, attending institute series of seminars, consulting with graduate students, taking part in the annual department outing.

 

Country                                : Spain

Duration                               : 12-26 January, 2002

Institute                               :Centre International De Hautes Edudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes,  

                                        Instituto Agronomico Medeterraneo De Zaragoza (IAMZ)

Inviting Prof.                       : Prof. Miguel Valls

Cities visited                         : Madrid , Zaragoza. 

Activities                               :

 

participating in the course on Decision Support Systems (DSS) in Agronomy: Modelling.  The course is a hands on training on the use of several DSS models in Agronomy.  The contents of the course included, Introduction to modelling and decision support systems, with emphasis on the Mediterranean region, Construction and use of a simulation model of a Wheat crop (STELLA simulation language), Presentations of use and applications of Decision Support Systems (DSSAT and CropSyst models), Applications of DSS to challenges in Mediterranean Agriculture, Upscaling DSS from field to farm and region, Round table discussion.

 

Country                                : Morocco

Duration                               : 5-8 October, 2004

Institute                               :Mohamed El-Khames University, Akdal, Rabat, Morocco.

Function.                              : Seventh Conference for Student Creative Activities

                                         Water in the Arab Countries

Cities visited                        : Rabat, Casablanca.

Activities                              :

 

Participating in the evaluation sessions for papers submitted from several Arab countries.  Presenting a paper on 'Use of Modern Water Management Techniques in the Arab Countries'.  The paper was chosen to be presented in the conference by Engineer Mohamed Habib from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University.

 

Country                                : Tunisia

Duration                               : 27 Nov – 2 Dec 2004

Institute :National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies. (INSTM), Salammbo, Tunisia.

Function                               : MELMARINA Workshop (monitoring and modelling coastal lagoons)

Cities visited                        : Tunis, Sousse.

Activities              :

 

Participating in the workshop as member of the Egyptian team of National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), presented a report on 'Water Level Data for Lake Manzala'.  Visited Ghar El-Melh, and Haj's hut.  Participated in technical sessions on instrumentation, hydrology and modelling, ecological modelling and biology, remote sensing, and training.

 

Country                                : Ethiopia

Duration                               : 1-21 April, 2005

Institute : Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Technology, Civil Engineering Department

Inviting Prof.                      : Dr. Dereje Hailu, Chairman

Cities visited                        : Addis Ababa 

Activities                              :

 

Teaching undergraduate classes on hydrology and irrigation, giving a short course on Spreadsheet Application in Water Resources.  Subject include rainfall runoff modelling, design of surface and sprinkler irrigation systems, water resources systems, loss and response sub-models, water and bed profile calculations, optimal design of pipe irrigation networks, principles of project management.

 

Country                                : Canada

Duration                               : 10-24 May  2005

Institute : University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, McMaster University, Civil Engineering Department

Inviting Prof.                      : Dr. Younes Alila, Associate Professor

Cities visited                        : Toronto, Hamilton, Vacouver

Activities                              :

 

Visiting the universities and meeting with the staff involved in Technical Writing and Communication Skills courses to get exposed to Canadian practices and exchange experience.  Visiting the University and city bookstores to buy related books to enhance the library of the Faculty of Engineering in Egypt.  Communicating with Toastmasters clubs in the cities of Hamilton and Vancouver and attending Toastmasters meetings and interclub contests.