User talk:Gehan S. A. Ibrahim

Dr. Gehan S. A. Ibrahim or Dr. Gehan Samir Ali Ibrahim is a lecturer and author specialises in Islamic Art and Archaeology. Dr. Ibrahim received her Ph.D. degree from School of Oriental and African Studies in September 2006 from London University which was dealing with the significance of architectural representations in Islamic Art and Architecture and covered broad areas of research in various regions like Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Dr. Ibrahim had previously received her M.A. degree (Merit) also from SOAS in 2001 and her dissertation was about wooden furniture in Mosques and Madrasas of Cairo, their meaning and significance from the artistic and architectural points of view. Dr. Gehan Ibrahim's BSc. degree is from Cairo (Helwan University) in Tourism Guidance in 1996, which she had received with the grade of Excellence with Hons. As Dr. Ibrahim had been exposed to the arts, architecture, history and civilisation of the Graeco-Romans, Ancient Egyptians and the Muslim for her BSc. she had developed great enthusiasm specifically towards the studies of Islamic Art and Archaeology as the chosen subject of her future postgraduate studies. Dr. Gehan started her career as a lecturer assistant (demonstrator) in the Department of Tourism Guidance in Ain Shams University in 1996 straight after graduation and has been promoted to the position of a senior lecturer in Islamic Art, History, Civilisation and Architecture in 2007. Dr. Gehan Ibrahim has worked for the Institute of Ismaili Studies as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer and has taken part in a project for the AKTC (Agha Khan Trust for Culture) regarding the restored Islamic monuments of Cairo. Her latest contribution is her book "Window Grilles in Early Muslim Architecture: An Outline" which mainly deals with the manufacture and decoration of the stained glass window grilles in Muslim architecture in places like Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, as well as a comparative study with similar examples from the contemporary West.