Dr. Akram Hijazi

 

 

CV

Qualifications

 

-    Bachelor of Arts in journalism and communication science, (University of Tunis / Institute of Press and Communication Sciences, 1989). As a requirement for obtaining this degree, he submitted a research entitled: "readability of media discourse in the Arab press : formulation of an Arabic measurement instrument."

-     A compulsory degree in Moroccan and Islamic Sociology (!st University of Tunis / College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1991).

 - A Compulsory degree in social psychology (1^st University of Tunis / College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1992). These degrees were compulsory to follow high studies program in sociology.

 - Certificate of Proficiency in research : "" (University of Tunis I / College of Humanities and Social Sciences-Department of Sociology, October / October 1992).

- Degree of in-depth research, (University of Tunis I / College of Humanities and Social Sciences-Department of Sociology, 1993).

- Doctorate in Sociology entitled : "The issue of Islam in occupied Palestine in 1967," (University of Tunis I / College of Humanities and Social Sciences-Department of Sociology, 1999).

 

 Third : scientific experience

 since 5/11/2000, he served  at the University of Taiz / Faculty of Arts-Department of Sociology  as assistant professor. He worked as  head of the Section from 13/1/2003 until early next academic year. After five consecutive years,  he stopped working in Yemen.

 

 Subjects he taught at the university:

 

 -sociology and Moroccan Islamic (the concept of the State of the Moroccan thinker Abdullah Al-`Erwee. In addition to political growth as well as the concept of political heritage and the concept of civil society, issues of globalization, secularism, national and leftist ideology and thought).

 - Social science of communication (theories of communication, information and mass media. Surveys on readability of information and scientific text, theories of social change through mass media , such as theories of individual and collective differences, social relations and psychological analysis, mental, cognitive and biological models, concepts of public opinion and referendum, content analysis.

- Cognitive social science (parts of books by the Arab scholar Maan Khalil Omar, the Lebanese

 

sociologist Frederick  Ma`touk "evolution of social science " , many  Western sociologists: German sociologist Karl Mannheim "ideology and utopia", the French sociologist George Gurovic " social frames of knowledge "of individuals, groups and society. - Urban Sociology (historical urbanization in Europe and the United States of America and Latin American and Asian cities and the rise of the global city and transition from social issue to the urban issue, and social problems accompanying transition, as well as the issue of urbanization in the Arab communities, including the Gulf societies, problems of urban research in the third world and Arab societies ... ).

 - rural sociology, in  addition to the emergence of science in the early twentieth century .Concepts of colonialism, rural, agricultural situation and Bedouin societies. Theoretical differences between the concepts of rural society and agricultural society, the theory of patterns of production and partition theory applied to tribal communities between Sudan and the Maghreb countries ..). I also taught impacts of the problems of rapid urbanization on rural Arab regions, historic means of access to land ownership, farming in Arab societies, especially during the Ottoman rule, European colonialism, and the provisional Ottoman land law and the types of land and ways to dispose of it.

 - Social Psychology (roles theories and social roles, and the socio-metric theory or measuring social relations and the theory of groups dynamics and leadership, as well as the birth of historical social psychology and its relationship with anthropology.

- Introduction to social theory. (concept of theory, the historical facts of the birth of sociology starting from Ibn Khaldoun  to San Simon and August, need to explain the science of social phenomena, as well as the central concepts used by science and its different themes, etc. ... and the historical antagonism between Dorkheim and Gabriel Tard .

- traditional social theory (San Simon, August, Emile Durkheim, socio-biological school ,Herbert Spencer, the functional and structural school, San Simon ,Talcott Parsons and anthropologists like Radcliff Brown and Malenovsky leading to Robert Merton`s new functionality. I also taught Karl Marx`s theory of Marxism.)

 - modern social theory (of Ralph Daherndov "theory of social conflict", which emerged from the functional and Marxist theory, works of Claude Levi Strauss and the theory of Pierre Bourdieu. I also taught sociology dynamic theories through the work of Alan Turin, George Balandier Alfrdoeh, theory and methodology of Raymond Budon, and the theory of symbolic interaction anthropologist George Herbert Mead).

- History of) social thinking (as part of social theory as a historic event. )

- Modern History of  the European political thought (brief introduction on the old European political history. The modern history focuses on the conflict between the church and society and between the Church and the government, the division of church and sectarian conflict since the era of Martin Luther, then Machiavelli views on the government, views of British philosophers triumph of the British Revolution and then the views of the French philosophers until the victory of the French Revolution and thus the emergence of civil society and the rule of law).

- supervision of the research activities of other graduate

 

 

Other Activities

 

* lecture at the Jordanian University of Yarmouk , entitled : "Sociology and the chaos of the meeting".

* participation in the annual cultural season, the University of Taiz-Yemen through scientific lectures.

 * Presentation in the project to establish an electronic library.

 * contributed to the completion of the graduate program in sociology at the University of Taiz.

* A working paper in the name of Department of Sociology, presented to the project for development of the curricula and courses in the Faculty of Arts, which was held on 1.2 March 2003.

 * participated in the second part of a workshop on curriculum development on March of 2004.

 

 

Pending Researches Pending Researches

 

 * unpublished Ph.d. thesis authorized for publication by the Jordanian Ministry of Information(600 pages).

 * rape case : research on historical and legal ownership of real estate and agriculture law in Palestine during the Ottoman and British rule. It is under consideration for publication (180-page).

 * Arab rural communities through 19 century : (Palestinian society as a model).

23     sociological reading in the historic transformation in terms of land in Islam : access to land

 

 

P Published Researchesublished Researches

 

* sociological vision of spontaneous popular support for the Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel (the Tunisian Al-Haqaik magazine and Jordanian Al-Dustour newspaper 1994) / Research of 14 pages.

 * In  search for culprits in the attacks of September 11 : socio-media excavations in the event and its repercussions (cultural Yemeni newspaper) / 20-page research published in two parts, on 22 and 29 / 11 / 2001.

* summary of the history of social theory, dated 09/22/2004 in Medoza Web site magazine, http://www.midouza.org/md/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2 site of the Moroccan writer Mohammed Aslim.

 * Summary of social theories traditional and contemporary, the first part (50 pages), No. 18, the electronic humanitarian Science magazine, February 2005. http://www.ulum.nl/a186.htm

* outlines of traditional and contemporary social theories, Part II (20 pages), the electronic humanitarian Science magazine, No. 18, March 2005. http://www.ulum.nl/a115.htm  

 * Dialogue of Civilizations , the electronic humanitarian Science magazine, http://www.ulum.nl/a155.htm No. 15, the second year (November 2004).

 * Sociology and the chaos of the meeting, the electronic humanitarian Science magazine,   http://www.ulum.nl/a214.html, second year / number July 23 .2005

 * Women accused of adultery between the hammer of justice institutions and the anvil of social  forces. joint research with Dr.. Mohammed Al-Durra funded by British Oxfam , along with 48 Slade Power point presentation / December CO-January 2005. The presentation took place in

 four governorates in the Republic of Yemen.

 * individual, community and the revolution in the information age. (published in the Zarka magazine for Research and Studies / Zarka National University -Jordan (refereed) / Volume VII-second issue, January 1st 2005.

* history of Arab bourgeois – Mere utopia. Al-Quds Open University magazine for Research and Studies (refreed) / Ramallah-Palestine / No. VIII, October-October 2006.

* the principle of legality for protection of human rights, a field socio-legal study, (adultery charge- a model) - together with the Dr. Mohammed Al-Durra, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Taiz.

* researches and studies on Salafi Jihad and the Islamic movements, published in newspapers and magazines