Category Archives: Academic Members

Dr. Khaled Nabil

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Name : Khaled Ibrahim Nabil Ahmed

Birthday & Place : 17 January 1959, Cairo

Nationality : Egyptian

Current Occupation: Professor of Architecture & Building Technology at Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Architecture Dep. Omm Al Qurra University. Makka, SA.

Mailing address : Dr. Khaled Nabil, Department of Islamic Architecture Dep. Omm Al Qurra University. Makka, SA . Po Box 5555

Tel. : 09660565766001, 0020105140518

E. mail :  khanabil@Yahoo.com

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Dr. Mohamed Assem M. Hanafi

Mohamed Assem M. Hanafi

1- Personal Data

Birth Date: April 14, 1965

Nationality:  Egyptian

Occupation:  Prof. Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering,

University of Alexandria.

Address:  58  Sekkina Bint AlHussein St., Mostafa Kamel,  Alexandria, EGYPT.

Phone: office:  +203 5828530/ Fax: +2035836682 –

mobile: +2012 22421641

Email: mahanafi@hotmail.com  & m.assem@mhanafi.com

URL:   www.mhanafi.com

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Dr.Ismail Said

Dr.Ismail Said

Ismail Said (PhD) is an associate professor and departmental head of Department of Landscape Architecture at Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He has been teaching at the university since 1985.  He also has taught landscape architecture at King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia in 1991 to 1993 and did his sabbatical at School of Environmental Design, National University Singapore in 2002. His major research areas are children’s environment and vernacular architecture. He has published 130 papers in journals and conference proceedings and 5 books on materials of landscape architecture and architecture. Currently, he is supervising 12 PhD students studying a variety of topics including the impact of green infrastructure on urban residents’ wellbeing, place attachment on open spaces, walkable city environment, typology of landscape spaces in hospital setting, and children’s play plot ratio in residential setting.

Dr. Akeel Hwaish

Dr. Akeel Noori Almlla Hwaish

Dr. Akeel Noori Almlla Hwaish holds a PhD in Architecture, Islamic Built Environment & Environmental Impact Assessment. He is a fully licensed consultant Architect since (1996). He is one of the pioneers who established Faculty of Architecture & Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia, Guest lecturer in the Architectural Design Dept., University Putra Malaysia . He has held several academic positions & served as Director for many consultation bureaus, Consultant and senior Design Manager for many international projects in Malaysia, Dubai-UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq from 1990-2008. He successfully combines professional and academic roles and has a particular interest in Traditional & Contemporary Islamic Built Environment Studies, Heat Exchange in Building, EIA, and Passive & Green Architecture.

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Dr.Jihad Awad

Jihad Awad – Short Bio:

Dr. Jihad Awad is currently an associate professor of architecture at Ajman University of Science & Technology in UAE. He studied architecture and urban design in Jordan, USA and Germany. He has taught at different universities in Palestine and was head of department of architecture at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine (1997-2000).

His main fields of interest are traditional architecture in the Middle East, Islamic architecture and urbanism, and contemporary architecture of the Arab world.

He has published numerous papers and articles in different journals, regional and international. He was involved in organizing many conferences, symposia and workshops. He is member of advisory boards and committees for many journals, associations and institutions.

Currently, he is working on different books: “Design Concepts in Architecture,” with contributions by 80 renowned architects; “Future Visions for Architecture & Cities of the Islamic World,” with contributions by many Arab scholars and architects; and “Rasem Badran: The Architecture of People, Place and Time.”

Dr. Ahmad Sanusi Hassan

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I.  Personal Particulars 

Name:  Dr. Ahmad Sanusi Hassan 

Current position:  Associate Professor

II.  A.  Academic and Professional Qualifications   

1991 Bachelor of Science , University of Houston, Texas, USA.

1993 Bachelor (Honorable Graduation Award in Architecture Design Category) , University of Houston, Texas, USA.

1995 Master, University of Houston, Texas, USA.
1998 Doctorate Architecture , University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dr.Brahim Benyoucef

Brahim Benyoucef, Ph.D

Expert consultant en urbanisme et en sciences sociales, Canada

Docteur en urbanisme et aménagement (Université de la Sorbonne Paris 4; Epau) et diplômé en sciences sociales et civilisations orientales (Université de la Sorbonne –Nouvelle Paris 3), possède à son actif plus de 25 ans d’expérience dans les domaines de l’enseignement universitaire, recherche scientifique et expertise internationale. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs livres et maître de plusieurs projets dans les domaines de l’urbanisme et des sciences sociales; dont notamment :

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