Faculty: Agriculture, Foods and Environment

Place and Date of Birth: Cairo Egypt, 1966

Summary:

He received his education in Cairo, starting with basic education and even finishing his doctorate in agricultural engineering, majoring in irrigation, at the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University. He joined the Faculty of Agriculture – Sanaa University in 1989, where he worked in the agricultural mechanization workshop for a year, then transferred to academic work as a teaching assistant in the faculty in 1990. While studying for a master’s and doctorate degree in the Agricultural Engineering Department, Cairo University, he won the Japanese Kishida Prize from the Egyptian Association for Agricultural Engineering as the best scientific researcher In the field of agricultural engineering in 2002. Then he returned to the homeland and was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering in 2003 and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2010, and during the same year he won the President of the Republic Award for Scientific Research. During his academic career, he held many positions, where he worked as the head of the irrigation department in the landscaping unit at Sana’a University, where he designed and supervised the implementation of irrigation networks for green areas in the old university and the new university and participated in the management of the university’s afforestation campaign. Then head of the Division of Applied Sciences at Sana’a Community College, which included the departments of programming, library management, graphics, sewing and embroidery. Then he was the first dean of the Sanhan Community College, where he determined the educational programs of the college’s departments, formed its academic staff, and sent teaching assistants for postgraduate studies to Malaysia and received the first batch of students to join the college seven months after he assumed the deanship. Then head of the Research and Studies Department at the Water and Environment Center, then deputy director of the center, then director of the center, and during his career at the Water and Environment Center, he updated a master’s program in integrated management of water resources and led many projects and studies, the most important of which is the conflict and cooperation project on water resources and the decentralized management project Water resources in the Sana’a Basin, the study of the impact of the war on water, sanitation and hygiene, and a study on the impact of the war and the blockade on food security in Tihama. He participated in a large number of documentary films on the importance of community stimulation towards local management of groundwater resources. Then he assumed the position of dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Sana’a University, where during his tenure the name of the faculty was updated to the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment through a comprehensive development process for the academic programs of the scientific departments of the faculty at the level of the bachelor’s level, as well as the approval of graduate studies programs for the master’s and doctoral stages. Finally, he added to his duties the position of Director of the Water and Environment Center, in addition to his work as Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Foods and Environment. He participated in the development of descriptions and numbers of scientific material for a large number of educational courses and short courses and held many free training courses for students in the field of designing irrigation networks using the computer. He participated in many international and local conferences, workshops and seminars. He is fluent in English and French languages.