Ahmed Abdel Mawjoud El-Shenawy
Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the National Center for Social and Criminological Research, in Egypt. He obtained a doctorate in anthropology in 2008 on “Tourism and value change in Bedouin society.” In 2023, he won the “Arab Award for Encouraging Research in the Social and Human Sciences,” awarded by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. He received three grants from the Arab Council for the Social Sciences in the years 2019, 2023, and 2025. He served as a visiting researcher at the centerAl-Arabi (2014-2015), and a visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale (2012-2013). His research interests focus on ethnic groups and cultural studies, value change, identity and development. He published books and studies that dealt with the topics of Egyptian Nubia, desert communities in Egypt (North and South Sinai, the New Valley, and Matrouh), customary justice, changing values in the Egyptian countryside, and the values of coexistence. He participated in a number of international, regional and national conferences.