List of Cairo University Alumni - 1990s

1990s

• Hussein Bassir is an Egyptian archaeologist and novelist. In 1994, he got his BA in Egyptology from Cairo University. Then he traveled to the USA to get his PhD in Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

• Ahmed T. Hadidi is a Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Plastic Surgery at Heidelberg Mannheim University, Germany, and Cairo University. He is the Secretary General of the Pan African Paediatric Surgical Association and the Mediterranean Association of Paediatric Surgeons. He won the "Pulvertaft Prize" of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He earned his M.B. and B. Ch. from Cairo University in 1981. He earned his M. Sc. in General Surgery there in 1985 and his M.D. in 1993.

• Essam Heggy is a prominent planetary scientist in the NASA Mars Exploration Program and staff scientist at the highly reputed Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. He graduated from the faculty of sciences at the Cairo University in 1997 and received the PhD degrees from Paris VI University in 2002. He received several international awards for his role in contributing to the development low frequency terrestrial and planetary radars for subsurface exploration. He is currently a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX, USA were he is also serving in a number of NASA panels. Heggy who have earned a wide reputation among Egyptian youth after his resignation in 2005 from his staff position at the Cairo University to protest against the marginalization of science and youth in the Egyptian society. Rosa al Youssef the widely distributed magazine in the Arab world in its annual report in 2006 selected him as one of the top 10 reformist in Egypt.

• Yassin Saif Shaibany is a "Public International Law & International Islamic Organizations" specialist. He earned various law-related degrees from Cairo University, culminating in a PhD in international law in 1997. He is a Professor of International Law at Sana'a University in Yemen. He is a former cultural attache of Yemen in Egypt and has written on human rights in Yemeni and international law.