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Khaled El Shalakany holds degrees in engineering, management, law, and Egyptology from several universities including Cairo University, the American University in Cairo,the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and Manchester University. As a computer systems-engineer, he was awarded the IBM Professional Excellence award in 1982. He has been practicing law since 1985 first as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario) and then as a member of the Egyptian Lawyers Association. He is the Managing Partner of Shalakany Law Office which was established in 1912 and is one of the leading law firms in the Region. He is a registered arbitrator with the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration and the Egyptian Ministry of Justice. He has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 1997. He has participated in various capacities in over 120 international commercial arbitrations. Apart from scholarly articles and publications in law, management, and Egyptology (for Egyptology articles visit Khaled El Shalakany (academia.edu)); he is also the author of four short story collections offered on Amazon, as well as a novel in the Egyptian vernacular. His MA dissertation (Manchester) is published on Amazon (The Mother Goddess and the King: The Origins of the Symbols for the Divine Feminine, the Powerful Male, and Rulership Ideology in Ancient Egypt). He is the principal founder and ex-Chairman of the Egyptian ADR Association that is pioneering the application in Egypt of mediation for the settlement of business disputes. He is a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. Khaled El Shalakany has created and continues to manage and edit www.thaqafni.net a site in the Egyptian vernacular language dedicated to raising the cultural awareness of young people in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East

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