The Faculty of Arts’ First International Geography Conference

The First International Geography Conference:

“Sustainable Development Trends in the Arab World : Future Horizons”

Faculty of Arts- Helwan University- Cairo

Arab Republic of Egypt-Cairo: Monday- Wednesday 27^th-29^th April 2015

Language of the Conference: Arabic & English

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Topics of the Conference:

First: Environment and Natural Development in the Arab World

• Trends of the environment developmental thinking in the Arab World;
• Various regions of the environment and the developmental progress;
• Processes of the development and environmental assessment;
• Samples, environment applications and development processes;
• Man as a Geomorphological element and its impact on the development processe
• Coastal environment;
• Desert environment;
• Plain environment;
• Climate change and its impact on the development processes;
• Nature reserves;
• Planning and developing water resources;

Second: Sustainable Social and Economic Development in the Arab World

• Residential development;
• Rural development;
• Urban development;
• Development of various services;
• Agricultural development;
• Environmental development;
• Water resources development;
• Fisheries development;
• Pastures development;
• Intercommerce resources development;
• Industry and power development;
• Touristic development;

Third: Sustainable Human Development in the Arab World

• Residential development;
• Economic development;
• Urban development;
• Development of public utilities and services;
• Applying the human development implications;

Fourth: Sustainable Development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council

• Economic development;
• Inter-integrity;
• Power strategy;

Fifth: Sustainable Development in Northern, Southern and Western Africa

• Water resources development;
• Touristic development;
• Fisheries development;
• Environment resources development.

Sixth: Sustainable Development of Interdisciplinary Sciences

• Social sciences;
• Economic sciences;
• Political sciences;
• International relations;
• Human relations;
• Applied languages.

Seventh: Problems and Future Horizons for Sustainable Development in the Arab World

• Natural environment and its problems;
• Social development and its problems;
• Economic development and its problems;
• Future horizons for sustainable development.

 Conditions of Participation:

Approval of the submitted papers depends upon the following conditions:

• The paper should revolve around any of the topics of the conference;
• Papers should abide by the academic methodology and documentation;
• Papers should be new, never published or submitted to any conference before;
• The participant should admit that he never publish his paper before or intend to do so;
• Number of pages should not exceed 40 pages, excluding top papers;
• Submitted papers will be viewed and approved by virtue of publication rules of the journal of the Faculty of Arts, Helwan University and sent to: gogcn@arts.helwan.edu.eg
• Papers should be sent electronically all the way;
• Each participant should send his/her CV, with a recent photo, of maximally one page, using simplified Arabic 14 font, 1.5 lines spacing;
• For non-Egyptian participants, they should send a copy of their passports for visa procedures in case of approval;
• In case of approval, participants will be invited and hosted;
• For any inquiries about the conference, participation and attendance, you can kindly visit the university’s website or calling the conference secretary, Mr Hesham Zakariyya, at 01227884518, or via email at: shark_hz@yahoo.com;
• Important dates of the conference:

Organizational committees of the conference include:

First: High Supervisory Committee

• / President of the University, Chairman
• / Vice-president for Postgraduate Studies and Researches, Member
• / Soheir Abdel-Salam Hanafy, Member
• / President of National Cement Company, Member
• / Mona Abdel-Rahman Al-Kayyaly, Member
• / Wafiq Mohamed Gamal Al-Deen, Member
• / Omar Mohamed Aly Mohamed, Member
• / Magda Gomaa, Member

Second: The Conference Organazing Committee

• / Soheir Abdel-Salam Hanafy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts
• / Mona Abdel-Rahman Al-Kayyaly, Chair of the Scientific Committee
• / Wafiq Mohamed Gamal Al-Deen, Rapporteur of the Scientific Committee
• / Omar Mohamed Aly Mohamed, General Rapporteur of the Conference
• / Magda Mohamed Ahmed Gomaa, Head of Geography Dept.
• / Abdullah Abdel-Haleem Abdullah, Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs
• / President of Helwan Cement Co., Member
• / Marketing Manager of Etisalat Co., Member
• / Marketing Manager of Mobinil Co., Member
• / Marketing Manager of Egyptair, Member
• / Marketing Manager of Vodafone Co., Member
• / Marketing Manager of Bank Misr, Member
• / Marketing Manager of Cairo Bank, Member
• / Marketing Manager of National Bank of Egypt, member
• / Marketing Manager of Misr Al-Khair Foundation, member
• / Amr Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Esawy, Faculty General Manager

Third: The Conference Scientific Committee

• / Mona Abdel-Rahman Al-Kayyialy, President
• / Wafiq Mohamed Gamal Al-Deen, Rapporteur
• / Magda Mohamed Ahmed Gomaa, Member
• / Omar Mohamed Aly Mohamed, Member
• / Gehan Mustafa Al-Bayyomy, Member
• Prof./ Fatema Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Samad, Member
• Prof./ Sayed Abdel-Khaliq Al-Sayed Erfan, Member
• Prof./ Mohamed Al-Sayed Hafez, Member
• Prof./ Rafiq Abdel-Wahid Al-Diasty, Member
• Prof./ Ashraf Zakariyya Al-Abd, Member
• Prof./ Tareq Kamel Farag, Member
• Prof./ Nasr Al-Deen Mahmoud Salem, Member

General Rapporteur of the Conference                       Dean

Prof. Omar Mohamed Aly                               Prof. Soheir Abdel-Salam