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Mohamed Kadry Said, Ph.D., Maj.Gen.(ret.), Military and Technology advisor and head of military studies unit, Al- Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies; member of the committee for strategic planning in the Egyptian Council for Space Research Science and Technology; member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, member of the council of the Pugwash Organization for Science and World Affairs, senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 1986 and member of the American Planetary Society since 1991.

B.Sc. in military science and aerospace engineering from the Military Technical College (MTC), Cairo-Egypt (1970); and Ph.D in aerospace engineering from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace (ENSAE), Toulouse, France (1981). He served in the Egyptian Armed Forces as air defense officer and as staff member in the Military Technical College. Retired in January 1998, he joined Al-Ahram Center in July 1998. He is a frequent writer in Al-Ahram Newspaper, Nahdet Masr Newspaper, Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya Journal (International Politics), and Weghat Nazar (Points of View) Magazine. Subjects of interest are Military Strategy, Weapons Technology, Arms Control and the Arab-Israeli Conflict issues. He is acting as a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Security and Cooperation (EuroMeSCo) working groups. Member of several Arab-Israeli Track Two activities and currently acting as Al-Ahram Center's coordinator at the Consortium of Research Institutes' Project for Regional Security in the Middle East and North Africa since February 2005. Dr. Kadry lectured on Middle East security at the Center of Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland; the Center of Defense Studies in Brussels, Belgium and the Institute of National Defense Lisbon, Portugal.

Selected examples of published work:

- Egypt's Evolving Role in Peacekeeping: Capabilities and Cooperation Prospects within the Euro-Med Partnership (EMP); EuroMeSCo Project in Peacekeeping as an Area of Cooperation in the Mediterranean, October 2005.

- The Inside and Outside: Egyptian Security Policy in a New Environment, Strategic YearBook 2005, Swedish National Defense College, 2005, pp.231- 257.

- Leaderless Terrorism - The World and New Terrorism, in Arab Strategic Report, 2004-2005, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, (in Arabic) pp.81-86.

- Assessing NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue Ten Years After its Creation, NATO Review, Spring 2004.

- A Southern Perspective and Assessment of NATO's Mediterranean Security Dialogue, in: Hans Gunter Brauch; Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: Conceptualizing Security and Environmental Conflicts (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003): 181-193.

- Landmines from External Powers in World War II at El-Alamein in Egypt in: Hans Gunter Brauch: Security and Environment in the Mediterranean: Conceptualizing Security and Environmental Conflicts (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003): 513-522.

- Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone: Regional Security and Non-Proliferation Issues, in Building a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), UNIDIR/2004/24, pp.123-133.

- Potential Egyptian Contribution to a Security Framework in the Gulf, Middle East Policy Magazine, Volume XI, Fall 2004, Number 3, pp. 63-72.

- Southern Mediterranean Perceptions of European Defense policy - Country Survey 2003 (Egypt) in European Security and Defense Policy Impact on EMP, EuroMeSCo, Working Group III, April 2004.

- Mohamed Kadry Said, ed., Arab Perspectives and Formulations on Humanitarian Intervention, Report of the IISS-GRC Joint project on Intervention in the Gulf, October 2003.

- Security and Defense Dilemmas in the Middle East: The Nuclear Dimension: Pugwash Meeting 279, London, UK, 15-17 November 2002.

- Layered Defense, Layered Attack: The Missile Race in the Middle East The Nonproliferation Review, Summer 2002, Vol. 9, Number 2, p.37-46.

- Secrets and Ideas: September 11, 2001, in Arabic, with Abdel Monem Said, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, 2002.

- Missile proliferation in the Middle East: a regional perspective, Disarmament Forum, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Vol. two, April 2001.

- Security, Book No. 8, Political Encyclopedia for Youth, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, (in Arabic), January 2001.

- Confidence Building Measures in the Mediterranean: A Practical Approach, EuroMeSCo working Group on the Euro-Med Charter, Aug. 1999.

- Military Confidence Building Measures in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: View from the South, Fondation Mediterraneenne D'Etudes Strategiques (FMES), France, Dec. 2000.