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Personal Data
1-Name: Professor Dr / Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Razek Ghoneim.
2 - Job: Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Faculty of Arts,
Mansoura University
- Dean of the Delta Higher Institute for Social Work - Mansoura
2008
3- Marital status: Married with Children.
4- Address: 16 kamal al din salah smoha style - Alexandria – Egypt
Education
1-Highest Degree: Ph.D. in Anthropology.
2-- Field of Specialization: Cultural Anthropology –
Degree Awarding Institution: Alexandria University in 1985.
Title of Doctoral Thesis: Urban Anthropology Between the Study of
Old and Newly Established Towns: A Comparative Study
Career History:
- Dean of Faculty of Arts Mansoura University 2009
- Dean of the Delta Higher Institute for Social Work - Mansoura
according to the following ministerial decrees:
1 - No. 1207 dated 30 \ 8 \ 2001.
2 - No. 1411 dated 10 \ 8 \ 2002.
3 - No. 785 dated 14 \ 6 \ 2003.
4 - No. 849 dated 8 \ 6 \ 2004.
5 – No. 1569 dated 26 \ 6 \ 2005.
6 - No. 1906 dated 12/8/2006.
7 - No. 1821 dated 7/8/2007.
-- Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology - Faculty of
Arts - Mansoura University from 31/5/1999 -2008
Academic, Professional and Consultant Experiences:
1-Member of the Committee on Social Studies - Supreme Council for
Culture beginning from December 2007
2- Member of the Committee for Social Work Institutes -
Ministry of Higher Education from 2001 until 2006
3 - Member of the Academic Evaluation Committee issued by the
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the United
Arab Emirates to assess the College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Sharjah in February 2002.
4 – Coordinator of the first Scientific Conference - Faculty of Arts
- Mansoura University: "Real-Life Problems and Future Aspirations
6-7 April 1996.
5- Coordinator of the first Mansoura Conference for The Urban
Center for Anthropology and Folklore Between Originality and
Modernity 5 – 7 May 1998 which was held at the Faculty of Arts,
Mansoura University
6 - Coordinator of the Popular Culture and Development Conference
held by The Urban Center for Anthropology and Folklore 19-21 October
1999 at the Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University.
7 - Coordinator of the Popular Arab Culture - Identity and the
Future held by The Urban Center for Anthropology and Folklore at the
Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University in collaboration with the Delta
Academy for Sciences in Mansoura and the Cultural Dialogue Seminar
in Beirut 2 – 4 April, 2002, Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University
8 - Member of the Supreme Preparatory Committee of the Arab
Conference on Popular Culture in a Changing World, which was held in
Beirut from 27 – 29 September 2004.
9 - Representative of the Arab delegations at the Sixth Conference
of Popular Arab Culture (Popular Culture in a Changing World) in
Lebanon from 27-29/9/2004.
10 - Member of the Secretariat General of the Lebanese Cultural
Dialogue Circle
11 - Consultative Member for the alternate chief editor of the
Modernity Magazine in Beirut from 2006 until 2007.
12 - President of the Establishing Congress of Arab Folklorists
13 – Referee Member of the Cultural Activities for The
Universities Youth Week that has been held in February 2005 in
Mansoura University.
14 -Member of the Board of Arab Publishing Center at The Gulf
Studies and the Arabian Peninsula in the State of Kuwait from 15 \ 2
\ 2005
15 - Member of the Board of Scientific Publishing for the
Arts and Social Sciences Periodicals of the University of Kuwait
from 22\5\2005.
16 – Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts for Community Service Affairs
and Environment Development in addition to being a chairman of the
Department of Sociology from 30/12/1999 until 31/7/2001
17 - Director of The Urban Center for Anthropology and Folklore at
the Faculty of Arts - Mansoura University from 6/9/1997 up till now.
18 - Director of The Services and Academic Researches Center at the
Faculty of Arts - Mansoura University from 29/8/1996 until
30/7/2001.
19 – Representative of the Faculty of Arts for Community Service
Affairs and Environment Development to the Mansoura University
Council until 30/12/1999.
20 – Chairman of the Department of Sociology from 22/6/1999 until
15/12/2000.
21 - Professor of Anthropology – Department of Sociology - Faculty
of Arts – Mansoura University from 31/5/1999.
22 - Assistant Professor of Anthropology Department of Sociology -
Faculty of Arts – Mansoura University 21/4/1993 to 31/5/1999.
23 – Lecturer - Department of Sociology - Faculty of Arts – Mansoura
6/1/1986 until 6/4/1993.
24 – Assistant Lecturer - Department of Sociology - Faculty of Arts
– Mansoura University from 6/4/1983 to 6/1/1986.
25 – A full-Time grant to get the Master degree from Alexandria
University from 1979 until 1982, during which he obtained a one-year
study mission from the University of Qatar in the academic year
1980-1981 to carry out a field study for theM.A.inDoha-Qatar.
26 - Member of the Faculty Council for the Faculty of Arts Mansoura
University on behalf of the lecturers in the academic year
1989-1990.
27 - Member of the Faculty Council for the Faculty of Arts Mansoura
University as acting Chairman of the Department of Sociology and
then Chairman of the Department from 1997 and until 31/7/2001.
28 - Member of the Faculty Council for the Faculty of Arts Mansoura
University on behalf of the Associate Professors from 12/5/1996 to
11/5/1997.
29 - Board Member of the Mansoura University Staff Club from 1995
until in 1997.
30 - Board Member of the Delta Higher Institute for Social work in
Mansoura from 19996 until 1998.
31 - Committee Member of the Urban Supreme Committee for Celebrating
nine centuries since the establishment of the city of Mansoura.
32 - Board Member of the Mansoura University Guesthouse for two
years from 29/1/2000.
33 – Supervisor of the Artistic Committee and the Families Committee
in the Students Union of the Faculty of Arts – Mansoura University
the following years: (86-87-90-94-95-96-97-98-99-2000-2001).
34 - supervision of the elections of the Students Union since 86
until 2001
35 – Member of scientific committees issued by Faculty of Arts
Councils such as the Scientific laboratories and Libraries and
Cultural Relations Committee.
36 - Chairman of the Committee for Community Services and
Environment Development Committee at the Faculty of Arts 1996 until
1/8/2001.
37 – Attending and passing the Activating Session at The Leaders
Preparation Institute in Helwan during the period from 24/6/1996 to
27/6/1996.
38 - Attending and passing the Activating Session at Mansoura
University from 17/11 to 20/11/1996 .
39 - Supervisor of the "Man", "Ibn Khaldoun" and "The Knights"
families at the Faculty of Arts since 86 and then Coordinator of the
Families Committee at the Faculty in 1996 and the Artistic Committee
in 1999
Academic Mission:
-- Scientific mission for six months, the United States of America,
New York University Binghamton State University of New York At
Binghamton in August 1993
Funded Applied Researches
- Supervisor of the Cultural Constraints for Development in the
Desert Communities - National Center for Social and Criminal
Researches – Department of Rural and Desert Communities Researches
since 2006 until now.
-- Principal investigator to examine the collection of folklore in
the Dakahliya governorate Research that was funded by Mansoura
University since 1994 until 2002.
-- Alternate researcher for the Tribal and Familial Regulation and
its Relationship to Development in Sinai Research that was funded by
the Scientific and Academic Research Academy in Cairo from 1999
until 2002.
Chairman of the field Study Work Team for the "Desert Communities
in Egypt" Research which was conducted under the supervision of
Prof. Ahmed Abu Zeid at the National Center for Sociological and
Criminal Researches in Cairo from 1987 until 1988 in North Sinai.
-- Chairman of the field Study Work Team for the "Fishermen
Communities in the Almanzala Lake" as part of the "World Visions"
Research which was supervised by Professor Dr. / Ahmed Abu Zeid
under the umbrella of the "Assessing the Cuktural Ploicies in Egypt"
Research that was commissioned by the National Centre for
Sociological and Criminal Researches in Cairo within the Permanent
program to evaluate social policies and programs (Project I for one
year in 1990).
Field Experience in the Area of Researches:
-- Participant the "Trends of Egyptian Society towards Manual Labor"
Research under the supervision of the Department of Anthropology
at the Alexandria Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the German
Konrad Iedenaor Foundation 1977-1979.
-- Participant in the "Socialization and its Impact on
Personality Upbringing" Research in the two regions of Matrouh and
Siwa and Algarak (Om El-Sagheer) Oasis under the supervision of the
Department of Anthropology at the Alexandria Faculty of Arts for one
month in 1979.
-- Participant in a research conducted by the Department of
Anthropology at the Alexandria Faculty of Arts in Al-Arish and Sinai
after gaining full control over Sinai by the Egyptian leadership in
1979.
Membership of Scientific Societies
-- Member of the International Union for Anthropology.
-- An active member at the Alexandria Bibliotheca Friends
Association.
-- Member of the Egyptian Geographic Society.
-- Member of the Egyptian Society for Biological Anthropology.
-- Member of the Arab Association for the Management.
Awards:
Awarded the Mansoura University Motivational Prize in the field os
sociological and Human Sciences in the academic year 94-1995.
-- Medal of the Jordan Ministry of Culture and Higher Education at
the The Eighth Oman Forum in Al-Aqabah – The Jordanian Folklore 9 –
11 / 11/ 1999.
Medal of The Educational Center for Researches and Development in
Lebanon 2/4/2002.
Medal of Mansoura University on the Silver Jubilee of the Faculty
of Arts in April 2004.
Medal of the Lebanese Cultural Dialogue on the occasion of the
sixth Conference for the Popular Arab Culture entitled "Popular
Culture in a Changing World" 27 - 29/9/2004.
Publications (Books, Articles and Researches:
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Urbanization in the Qatar Society
-
The City: A Study in Urban Anthropology
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The New Cities and Suburbs (Translated)
-
Studies in Anthropology
-
"Max Webber", an article published in the Periodical
of the Faculty of Arts – Mansoura University
-
Social Control and Customary Law in North
Sinai: An Ethnographic Study, a research published in the Periodical
of the Faculty of Arts – Mansoura University in August 1995.
-
The Muslim Preacher in Contemporary World: An
Analytic Perspective on Richard Antoine's Book under the same title,
published in the Periodical of the Faculty of Arts – Mansoura
University in 1996.
-
The Slums in Mansoura City: An
Anthropological Study in 1996.
-
Magic and Marital Relationships in Rural
Communities: An Anthropological Study in Some Villages in Dakahliya,
published in the Periodical of the Faculty of Arts – Alexandria
University No. 44 in 1996-1997.
-
Singing Bands in Seyam Street in Mansoura
City: An Anthropological Study, published in the Periodical of the
Faculty of Arts – Mansoura University.
-
Crafts and Popular Industries in the Dakahliya
Governorate in 1996.
-
Nomads in Egypt: An Anthropological Study on
Some of the Bedouins in Damietta and Dakahliya, 2001.
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Traditions and Conventions in the Delta of
Egypt, 2005.
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Al-Khawagat Market in Mansoura City: A Study
in Economic Anthropology, 2006.
-
Popular Medicine: Popular Practices in the Delta of
Egypt: An Anthropological Study in The Dakahliya Villages,
2007.
-
Beliefs and Random Performance in the Birth
Celebrations of Mullahs and Saints, in the Cities and Villages of
Dakahliya – The National Center for Theater, Music and
Folklorse- Ministry of Culture (2 Volumes) 2007.
In
Print:
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World Visions by Mickanel Kearney: Translation,
Analysis, and Introduction (Revised by Professor Ahmed Abu Zeid).
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Fishing Communities in Almanzala Lake.
Researches in Progress:
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Popular Heritage of Dakahliya Governorate.
-
Ecology and Types of Behaviors in Almanzala
Lake.
-
Fishermen in Ezbat Al-Borg – Damietta
Governorate.
-
Tribal and Family Organization and its Relationship
with Social Development in Sinai.
-
Proverbs.
Academic Conferences:
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The First Scientific Conference at the Faculty of
Arts – Mansoura University: "Real-Life Problems and Future
Aspirations" 6-7 April 1996.
-
The first Mansoura Conference of The Urban Center
for Anthropology and Folklore: "Between Originality and Modernity" 5
– 7 May 1998 which was held at the Faculty of Arts, Mansoura
University
-
"The Popular Culture and Development" Conference
held by The Urban Center for Anthropology and Folklore 19-21 October
1999 at the Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University.
-
The Popular Arab Culture - Identity and the Future
held by The Urban Center for Anthropology and Folklore at the
Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University in collaboration with the Delta
Academy for Sciences in Mansoura and the Cultural Dialogue Seminar
in Beirut 2 – 4 April, 2002, Faculty of Arts, Mansoura University
-
The First Alexandria International Conference on
Cultural Exchange among the Peoples of the Mediterranean:
Alexander the Great and Alexandria, 1996 (participating by a
research entitled "The Religious Rites and Beliefs of Saints Marr
Geregs and Demianah: A Comparative Anthropological Study in
Dakahliya Governorate.
-
Conference for "Language, Myths, and Fables in the
Middle East and North Africa" – Faculty of Arts Budapest
University, 18 – 22 September, 1995.
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The Second Conference for "Popular Culture" in
Beirut – 21 – 24 July 1999.
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The Third Aqaba Conference for "Popular Arts" –
Jordan 8 – 12 November 1999.
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Seminar for "Popular Beliefs" – The Middle
East Research Center – Ain Shams University.
-
The Second International Conference of the Faculty
of Social Sciences – Kuwait University (participating by a
research on " Popular Medicine and its Role in Community
Development: An Ethnographic Study")- 6 – 8 December 2003.
-
The Sixth Conference of Popular Arab Culture
(Popular Culture in a Changing World) in Lebanon from
27-29/9/2004.
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Beliefs and Rural Hand Crafts In Dakahliya
Governorate. The 35th international Congress of Asian and North
African Studies, (ICANAS) To Be Held In Budapest, Hungary, 7-12
July1997 "Magic and Marital Relationships in Rural Communities – An
Anthropological Study in Egypt".
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