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Networking with Fayoum University, Egypt

11 Nov. 2009

Almost a year ago, three of us from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, namely Assoc. Prof Dr Zamri Arifin and Assoc Prof Dr Azmi Ariffin, and I visited Fayoum University, about 100 km south of Cairo, to forge closer ties with the university. We are part of a group doing research on Middle East tourism. Fayoum University is one of 12 universities in Egypt with tourism faculty. The following is an account of the visit that appeared in the Fayoum University's website (News Archives). The official pictures below were taken during a courtesy call on President of Fayoum University where we exchanged our respective universities' plaques.

"17-Nov-2008
President of Fayoum University Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Gohary and Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development Prof. Dr. Abdel Hamid Abdel Tawab Sabry received Sunday 16/11/2008 a delegation from the National University of Malaysia.
The delegation also embraced a number of professors of communication, media and urban studies in Malaysia. The meeting focused on exploring the possibilities of cooperation in education and research between both universities.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Gohary said that the primary objective of this visit is to open new channels of cooperation in the field of student exchange in addition to providing scholarships for the faculty staff.
At the end of the visit, Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Gohary presented the University Shield to the Malaysian delegate as a symbol of friendship and cooperation. Also, the head of the Malaysian delegation presented the National University of Malaysia Shield to Fayoum University President."

As a follow-up of that visit, Prof Dr Ibrahim Eraqi, Deputy Dean of the Fuculty of Tourism and Hotels, was appointed a visiting professor at the Institute of West Asian Studies, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, for two weeks. During his tour of duty, Prof Ibrahim (extreme left) delivered a plenary paper at the IKRAB's conference in early December, 2008, lectures to post-graduate students in the Faculty of Islamic Studies and the Faculty of Economics and Administration. At the end of Prof Ibrahim's visit, a Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed.
In April 2009, Prof Dr Siti Rogayah Tibek, IKRAB's Director , Prof Dr Jamal Othman, IKRAB's Deputy Director, and I took part in Fayoum University's annual international conference on tourism, which was held at Sharm El-Sheikh, where we presented three papers.

























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