Dr. Montasser I. M. Abdelghani

GRM 2011 Workshop: Modernization and Socio-Economic Changes in the Gulf Arabic Cities

Assistant Professor of Social and Urban Geography - Sultan Qaboos University

Dr. Montasser I. M. Abdelghani is an Assistant Professor of Social and Urban Geography at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman. He was born in 1970 in the province of El-Minya, Egypt. From 1988 to 1992, he studied geography at the University of El-Minya. In 1996, he received a scholarship from the Egyptian government for post graduate studies in Germany. He studied the German language in Frankfurt and Mainz, and obtained his doctoral degree, in social geography, at the University of Bayreuth, in Bavaria. His research has focused on the issues of Arab cities, urbanization, vulnerability, and international migration. From 2003 to 2006, he taught geography at a number of institutions, in Egypt. In 2004, he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Bayreuth, in Germany. He has participated in many international conferences in Germany, Austria and in Arab countries. He has been living and working in Oman since 2007.