Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mohammad Abdelhafez
Mohammad Nabeel Ahmed Abdelhafez
Al Adiyat Residence 2, Al Barsha 1, Dubai, Near City Max Hotel Apartments. Landmark: Arz
Lebanon Restaurant in the ground floor.
+971 52 939 0806
mu7ammad.nabeel@gmail.com
behance.net/Mohammad-Nabeel
linkedin.com/in/mohammadnabeel
Skype: muhammad-nabeel-ahmed
Sex Male | Date of birth 8th Jan, 1989 | Nationality Egyptian | Passport No: A15465948
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mar. 2015 - June 2015
Board Member
Urban Planning Committee
alexandria.community.service@gmail.com
▪ Board member at the Urban Planning Committee -Civil Society Advisory Committee to Alexandria
governorate- and responsible for the following :
▫ Discuss means of coordination between the committee and the governorate;
▫ Facilitate preparatory meetings with urban-concerned individuals and entities to discuss patterns of
institutionalization of the committee;
▫ Drafting Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Terms of Reference (ToR) for the committee
▫ Facilitate the establishment of committee; organizational framework, building capacities, etc.
Mar. 2015 - Present
Executive Director
Save Alex Initiative
facebook.com/savealexeg
▪ In coordination with the initiative's founders and directors, I took the lead of the initiative and
conducted the following accountabilities and responsibilities:
▫ Leadership, planning, strategic and resource support;
▫ Community outreach and communication;
▫ Fund development;
▫ Facilitation and stakeholders/partner coordination;
▫ Data collection, coordination and reporting.
Feb. 2015 - May.2015
Architect & Community Development Coordinator
Hand Over Project
handoverproject.com
▪ In association with Ezbet Project (German-Egyptian partnership concerning community development
of informal settlements), I co-volunteered in the community development of Ezbet Abu-Qarn in
participation with stakeholders and conducted the following:
▫ Participate in the pre-implementation session to address the new techniques in building with earth;
▫ Facilitate community support structure;
▫ Participate, coordinate and facilitate the implementation process;
▫ Build housing prototype in participation with the stakeholders;
▫ Coordinate with Ezbet project team to ensure the sustainability of the project.
Nov. 2014 - Present
Jan. 2013 - July. 2013
Co-admin & Media Coordinator
Alexandria Scholars
facebook.com/groups/AlexandriaScholars
▪ Facilitate the administration of the group -within a diverse multidisciplinary team of 5 members- in
accordance to the group's announced core values;
▫ Inter-connect and advance the academic, cultural and civil society initiatives in Alexandria;
▫ Raise awareness on challenges facing the coastal city such as public space, urban development,
pollution, higher education, and threats to heritage sites;
▫ Contribute to the wider debate on Egypt's civil society, socio-economic and foreign policy
challenges as well as Alexandria’s role in Egypt's future, Mediterranean basin countries, and the
international community.
Writer & Filmmaker
taralbahr.com
Gudran Association For Art And Development
gudran.com
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Curriculum Vitae
Mohammad Abdelhafez
▪ In association with Färgfabriken Foundation - Sweden, in the premises of Gudran Association, I
participated in Community Media Centre (CMC) project and conducted the following:
▫ Contributing to "Community Media Centre" project through writing, photography and filmmaking;
▫ Publishing the zero edition of "Tara Al Bahr/Overlooking The Sea" newspaper;
▫ Launching an online platform concerning Alexandria; the city, the urban and the inhabitants
EDUCATION
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2 Feb. - 4 May. 2015
An Introduction to the Politics of Citizenship
http://goo.gl/3B1Rd0
University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Online Course
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3 Jan. - 15 Mar. 2015
▪ Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the categories of state, civil society and citizenship;
▪ Cultivate a fundamental capacity for understanding the form and practice of civic participation in
diverse societies as well as the connection between civic participation and conflict transformation;
▪ Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of civil society state and citizenship in a historical
perspective and in the contemporary era of globalization;
▪ Communicate in English language both orally and in written form at (near) native level;
▪ Have the learning skills to allow them to continue education in a self-directed manner and to work
on an academic level within the intended professional field;
▪ Make efficient use of libraries, online resources bibliographical material and academic research.
Emerging Modes of Urban Governance
http://goo.gl/CmjLbD
CILAS | Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
▪ Become acquainted with the concepts of the spatial turn and socio-spatial justice;
▪ Learn about the production of space, the right to the city and arrival cities;
▪ Understand how the twin forces of globalisation and urbanisation correlate;
▪ Critically assess the term urban global south;
▪ Analyse how poverty, exclusion and violence in the urban intertwined;
▪ Discuss the analytical and practical meaning of conventional distinctions between formal/informal,
legal/illegal, ordered/disordered;
▪ Develop an understanding of the socio-economic and technological dynamism of the 21st century;
▪ Gain insight into the decision-making process at the urban level and recognise the diffusion of
decision-making power;
▪ Be introduced to the notions of 'insurgent citizenship' and 'rebel cities';
▪ Identify and mobilise city-specific resources.
June. 2013
Bachelor of Architecture
Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
▪ Architectural Design, History and Theory of Architecture, City Planning, Urban and Regional
Planning, Building Construction, Building Technology, Technical and Professional Practice.
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS
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18 Apr. - 3 May. 2015
FutureScape Alexandria
http://goo.gl/f58zBG
Art Schools of Aix-en-Provence and Avignon, France
Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
▪ During my participation in FutureScape Alexandria -following the French-Egyptian cooperation
dialogue- we investigated, through collaborative experimentation, the relation to Alexandria City
and public space and conducted the following:
▫ Developing a reflection and artistic production about the future of the city, based on imaginary
and utopian traditions of fiction and science-fiction;
▫ Creating stories on imaginary futures of the city using various artistic mediums and heritage
places such as the old railway station of Kafr-Ashry
▫ Producing videos, sounds, sketches, etc and exhibiting production materials at a public seminar;
▫ constructing an online database telling the stories of the endangered areas of the city.
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28 - 30 Sept. 2014
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2 - 12 Apr. 2013
Mohammad Abdelhafez
New Urban Topologies (NUT) – Alexandria III
http://goo.gl/GRcY1z
Färgfabriken Foundation, Sweden - Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
Gudran for Art and Development, Alexandria, Egypt - Swedish Institute Alexandria - [Host]
▪ Resuming the project, that inspires a democratic participatory process on urban planning;
▪ Discussing the future development of Alexandria based participants and citizens' perspectives;
▪ Focusing on Kafr Ashry -informal residential area at western Alexandria- within specific theme; Lost
and Public Spaces;
▪ Continuing the dialogue with its inhabitants, based on sustainability, security, recycling and the
specific needs of children and women particularly.
http://goo.gl/wAuhbw
AA Visiting School MITTELMEERLAND 5
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt - [Host]
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10 - 17 Mar. 2013
Jan. 2013
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17 - 26 Sept. 2012
▪ Analyzing existing conditions of the coastal city of Alexandria and future projections;
▪ Utilizing small-scale phenomena, translating found conditions into large-scale urban interventions
and envisioning future changes;
▪ Produce architectural portraits, urban narrations and imaginative collages, which ultimately feature
in a publication of the workshop's research on various waterfront cities around the Mediterranean.
Urban Minorities II: Alexandria 2013
http://goo.gl/GWd8A7
Bauhaus University, Germany - Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt - [Host]
Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine - German Jordanian University, Jordan
▪ Discussing -along with participants from different parts of the world- specific theme: Minorities from
the social aspect and its relation to urban studies;
▪ Focusing on discussing impressions and thoughts concerning three subjects: Religious Minorities,
Ethnic minorities (Nubians) and Cosmopolitan Alexandrians (Europeans);
▪ Exploring -within this German-Arab dialogue- not only the other's tremendous professional
attitudes, but also acknowledging and experiencing the other's social, cultural and traditional
values.
Alexandria's Heritage Preservation Report
http://goo.gl/Z9N2lI
Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
▪ Updating the heritage preservation list with the post 25th January revolution status;
▪ Digital documentation to listed buildings within photos;
▪ Mapping listed buildings on Wikimapia (an online editable map).
Joint Urban Design Workshop (JUDW Cairo)
http://goo.gl/gHZGII
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany - Alexandria & Cairo University, Egypt
University of Aleppo & University of Damascus, Syria - American University of Beirut, Lebanon
▪ The workshop focused on development of the North-Western Edge of Historic Cairo "Al Darrassa".
▪ The five focal points covered through the workshop are:
▫ Development of public spaces as initials for a renewal process;
▫ Design of new building typologies in the historic context;
▫ Integration of institutional buildings as an initial for a renewal process;
▫ Design of community based development strategies;
▫ Elaboration of urban design and a ‘Masterplan’ for the case study area and its context.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)
Arabic
Other language(s)
English
UNDERSTANDING
SPEAKING
WRITING
Listening
Reading
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
C1
B2
C1
C1
B2
IELTS Academic - Score: 7.0 - TRF Number: 14EG001721ABDM002A
French
A1
A2
A1
A2
A1
Levels: A1/2: Basic user - B1/2: Independent user - C1/2 Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
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Curriculum Vitae
Computer skills
Other skills
▪ Autodesk: Autocad and Revit Architecture
▪ Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign
▪ Microsoft Office; Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word
▪ Filmmaking
▪ Blogging
▪ Wikipedia Contribution
Mohammad Abdelhafez
http://goo.gl/nC2gbh
http://urbanalysis.tumblr.com/
http://goo.gl/a5F5v9
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Publications
Honours and awards
Conferences
Membership
References
▪ MINAT AL-BASSAL .. KAFR ASHRY, Gudran Association, Egypt. June. 2013. http://bit.ly/1QVvvGw
▪ Rethinking Citizenship; Differentiated Citizenship, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Feb. 2015,
https://goo.gl/AB3DJm
▪ 1st prize | "Catalyst for Change" Competition, AUC, Egypt. May. 2013
http://bit.ly/1oW41oD
▪ LEARNING FROM CAIRO | Participant | AUC, Egypt. Apr. 2013
learningfromcairo.org/
▪ Citizens for Heritage | Speaker | Swedish Institute, Egypt. Apr. 2015
http://goo.gl/Yojymx
▪ Egypt Urban Forum | Participant | Hotel Marriott Zamalek, Egypt. June. 2015 egypturbanforum.com
▪ 2013-2014; Architectural Association - London | Membership
▪ 2012-2013; German-Arab/Iranian Higher Education Dialogue | Membership
▪ 2012-2013; AIESEC International | Membership
▪ References are available upon request.
ANNEXES
▪ Bachelor's degree certificate
▪ Proof of English proficiency (IELTS certificate)
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