Dr. Omar Imady

Personal

Date of birth: July 8, 1966

Languages: English & Arabic (Native)

Email: oimady@nyit.edu

Website: http://omarimady.com/

Address:

Dr. Omar Imady

c/o The New York Institute of Technology

PO Box 840878

Amman, Jordan 11184

Education

Bachelor of Arts, BA (June 1988)

Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America)

Major: Middle Eastern Studies

Core:   Economics

Minor: History

Master of Arts, MA (June 1990)

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America)  

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)        

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)

Doctorate of Philosophy, PhD (December 1993)

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America)  

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)        

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)

Thesis Title: Journals, Associations & Political Parties

(Available at Van Pelt Library - Call Number: Diss. POPM1993.343)

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I. Academic Positions & Activities, 2004 – Present

1. New York Institute of Technology, NYIT (Amman, Jordan)

May 2010 – Present, Jordan Campus Dean

September 2009 – May, 2010, Interim Campus Dean

March 2008 – September 2008, Interim Campus Dean

March 2008 – Present, Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences

September 2006 – March, 2010, Dean of Students

August, 2004 – March 2008, Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences

2. Seminars & Workshops

March 2007, The Implications of MBTI, Learning Styles on Teaching at the University Level

NYIT (Amman, Jordan)

February 2007, “Challenges of Private Higher Education”

Exhibition on Private University Education (Damascus, Syria)

3. Awards

Presidential Excellence Awards:

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Full-Time Teaching

October 2007, NYIT Jordan

4. Publications

A Child of Waiting

(Damascus: Dar Tlass for Studies, Translation & Publication, August 2004).

Historicizing Damascus:  Eight Centuries in the History of a Damascene Family

(Damascus: Dar Tlass for Studies, Translation & Publication, October 2004).

Letters to a Disciple

(Damascus: Dar Tlass for Studies, Translation & Publication, May 2005).

The Rise & Fall of Muslim Civil Society

(Salinas, CA:  MSI Press, October 2005).

When you’re shoved from the right, look to your left:  Metaphors of Islamic Humanism.

(Salinas, CA: MSI Press, December 2005).

“Prosdechomai” in Geri Henderson, ed., Thoughts Without Title

(Salinas, CA: MSI Press, December 2006).

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II. The United Nations, 1994 - 2004

1. Employment at the United Nations Development Program, UNDP (March 1994 – April 2001)

February 2000 – April 2001, Assistant Resident Representative

January 1998 – February 2000, National Program Officer, Head of the Program Division

March 1994 - December 1997, National Program Officer, Head of the Program Support Unit

2. Consultancies for the United Nations (April 2001 – July 2004)

International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD

January – March, 2004, Member, Interim Evaluation Mission

Agricultural Resources Management Project, (Karak, Tafielh - Jordan)

October – November, 2003, Member, Completion Evaluation Mission

Smallholder Livestock Rehabilitation Project, (Bekaa, Lebanon)

April - May, 2003, Team Leader, Project Design Mission

Badia Rangeland Development Project (Raqqa/Dier al-Zur/Hama/Hasakeh, Syria)

November, 2002, Member, Project Completion Mission

Southern Region Agricultural Development Project II (Suwaida/Dar’a,/Qunaytra, Syria)

June - July, 2002, Member, Project Design Mission

Idleb Agricultural Development Project (Idleb, Syria)

January, 2002, Member, Project Formulation Mission

Idleb Agricultural Development Project (Idleb, Syria)

United Nations Development Program, UNDP

June – July, 2003, Team Leader, Project Design Mission

Community Development in the Syrian Badia (Raqqa/Dier al-Zur/Hama/Hasakeh, Syria)

October - November, 2002, Team Leader, Projectt DDesign Mission

Community Development at Jabal al-Hoss II (Jabal al-Hoss, Syria)

March, 2002, Member, Project Review Mission

Community Development at Jabal al-Hoss I (Jabal al-Hoss, Syria)

May, 2001, Member, Project Review Mission

Community Development at Jabal al-Hoss I (Jabal al-Hoss, Syria)

3. Seminars & Workshops

October, 2003, Presentation of a lecture entitled: “Principles of Rural Development Policies”

Poverty Alleviation Workshop, (Aleppo, Syria)

January, 2003, Participant

Sustainable Livelihoods Workshop for Consultants based in the Near East, (Amman, Jordan)

July, 2002, Presentation of a lecture entitled: “Lessons of Rural Development in Syria”

Future Prospects of Microfinance Workshop (Aleppo, Syria)

April, 2001, Advisor, Workgroup on Socioeconomic Aspects

Roundtable Workshop for the Country Program Evaluation (Damascus, Syria)

4. Publications

“An Evaaluation of Credit & Rural Financing (ARMP)”

Interim Evaluation Report & Annexes

Agricultural Resources Management Project

(Karak & Tafielh, Jordan) - February, 2004

http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/public_html/eksyst/doc/prj/region/pn/jordan/392_jo.htm

“An Evaluation of Credit & Rural Financing (SLRP)”

Completion Evaluation Report & Annexes

Smallholder Livestock Rehabilitation Project

(Bekaa Valley, Lebanon) - November, 2003

http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/public_html/eksyst/doc/prj/region/pn/lebanon/lb_305.htm

Al-Iqtisadiyyah

Al-Tanmiyyah al-Rifiyyah wa Mabadi' al-Taghiyyir (Rural Development & Principles of Change)

No 79, January 12, 2003.

NENARAKA

Imady, Omar & Seibel, Hans Dieter, “Sanduq: A Microfinance Innovation in Jabal al-Hoss”

August 2003.

http://www.uni-koeln.de/ew-fak/aef/05-2004/2003-1%20Sanduq%20article%20NENARACA.pdf

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