Abdelmegid Moustafa Farrag

Abdelmegid Moustafa Farrag (5 January 1928 – 31 January 2002) عبد المجيد مصطفى فراج was a Social Studies Educator and a Statistics and Demography Studies authority who also served as Professor at the Cairo Faculty of Commerce and Cairo Faculty of Economics and Political Science in Egypt and later as the Dean of the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research in Cairo, Egypt.

Academic career

In 1948, Abdelmegid Moustafa Farrag obtained his B.Sc. degree in Economics from the Faculty of Commerce in Cairo, Egypt, and in 1950 he earned a diploma in Statistics from the same school. In 1952 he earned a diploma in Commerce and in 1954 a master's degree in Socio-Economical Development and Planning both from the University of Birmingham, UK. In 1957 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Demography and Population Studies from the London School of Economics, UK. His doctorate thesis was titled "Demographic Developments in Egypt During the Present Century."

Post-academic career

From 1950 until 2002 he served as lecturer, associate professor, professor and department head at several institutions in Cairo, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. His last academic post was Dean of the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research in Cairo, Egypt from 1983 to 1988.

From 1962 to 1968 he served as Staff Member at the International Labor Office (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland and during the period 1970 to 1992 he served as UN Chief Technical Advisor for Yemen and Iraq and Regional Advisor UN Fund for Population Activities for all Arab countries and Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, and Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Human Resources for the Prime minister's Office in Cairo, Egypt.

In addition of being a world expert in Statistics and Demography, Prof. Farrag was a prolific thinker and many of his reform thoughts and ideas were published in many Egyptian newspapers and magazines such as Al-Ahram Al-Yawmy (الأهرام اليومي) and Al-Ahram Al-Ektesady (الأهرام الاقتصادي) during the period 1958 to 2001. Prof. Farrag's progressive thoughts were also published in four Arabic books, namely:
دبلوماسية التنمية و دبلوماسية المراسم , إستثمار التخلف في ظل العولمة, المسألة السكانية - التشخيص والعلاج, أحوال مصر في نصف قرن - see publications 4 to 7 below.

Awards

Dr. Farrag received several awards in Egypt for his work:

- 1983 - 1st Order of Science and Arts,

- 1995 - Ministry of Population Award, and

- 1997 - State Merit Award in the field of Social Sciences. جائزة الدولة التقديرية فى العلوم الاجتماعية - See reference 10

Publications

1- https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/primo-explore/search?vid=44LSE_VU1&tab=default_tab&indx=1&bulkSize=10&dym=true&highlight=true&displayField=title&query=any,contains,X28,407&search_scope=CSCOP_ALL

2- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00324728.1964.10405507?journalCode=rpst20

3- http://kohahq.searo.who.int/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=18534

4- دبلوماسية التنمية و دبلوماسية المراسم - Year 1987

5- إستثمار التخلف في ظل العولمة Year: 2001 دار المعارف See: http://www.al-jazirah.com/culture/14042003/tatb95.htm

6- المسألة السكانية - التشخيص والعلاج

7- أحوال مصر في نصف قرن - Dar EgyMisr Printing and Publishing 1999

8- http://cedej.bibalex.org/DocumentFrm.aspx?documentID=177637&lang=ar&Author=%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%89%2c%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF+%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B2+%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%2c%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AF+%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC

9- King Fahd National Library: http://ecat.kfnl.gov.sa:88/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=P555785V5989F.190814&profile=akfnl&uindex=BAW&term=%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%20%D8%8C%20%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AF%20%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%89&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&source=172.27.18.30@!kfnl1256

10- Statistics via mathematics : an open debate See: https://iase-web.org/documents/papers/icots3/BOOK1/A5-4.pdf

11- http://cedej.bibalex.org/Results.aspx?SearchType=Advanced&lang=fr&Date=1988&publisher=El-Ahram&subject=Travail%20Et%20Emploi&author=Abdel%20Meguid%20Farrag

12- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00324728.1964.10405507

References

1- https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/primo-explore/search?vid=44LSE_VU1&tab=default_tab&indx=1&bulkSize=10&dym=true&highlight=true&displayField=title&query=any,contains,X28,407&search_scope=CSCOP_ALL

2- https://cu.edu.eg/userfiles/STAT_EN.pdf

3- http://www.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2002/2/8/OPIN3.HTM

4- https://cu.edu.eg/ar/Cairo-University-News-67.html

5- http://www.acrseg.org/36535
فى التسعينيات تكلم الراحل د.عبدالمجيد فراج ـ مدير معهد الاحصاء بجامعة القاهرة عن سياسة خارجية للتنمية، وما أحوجنا للعودة للتركيز على هذا التوجه ودراسة كيفية تنفيذه عن طريق برنامج عمل وأجندة محددة، وقد يكون موضوع «سياسة الخارجية» من أجل تنمية مصر هو أساس «ورشة عمل» تجهز لمؤتمر عام عن سياسة مصر اخارجية، ونستطيع فى هذه الحالة أن نبنى ونقيم ما قامت به مؤتمرات سابقة عن الموضوع فى هذا الصدد.

7- https://iase-web.org/documents/isinewsletter/isinewsv19n2.pdf - See page 17:
New lASE Executive Committee.
The following people will take office in August 1995;
President: Anne Hawkins (UK)
President-elect Maria Gabriella Ottaviani (Italy)
Vice-presidents: Manfred Borovcnik (Austria)
Abdelmegid Farag (Egypt)
Brian Phillips (Australia)
Richard Scheaffer (USA)

8- https://ww2.amstat.org/education/stn/pdfs/STN37.pdf - See page 7:
Abdelmegid Farrag offers a framework
for a course on data analysis for schools
In Egypt, focusing on what the role of the
teacher should be in order to have effective
instruction of data analysis

9- Obituary: http://www.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2002/2/2/WAFY3.HTM and http://alarabnews.com/alshaab/GIF/08-02-2002/Farag.htm

10- https://m.marefa.org/جائزة_الدولة_التقديرية_في_العلوم_الاجتماعية

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1928 births
2002 deaths
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academic staff of Cairo University
Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom