Assistant Professor
Email: mibrahim@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5267
Fax: 212-772-5268
Office: 1048 HN

Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065

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Biography:

Prof. Ibrahim’s interests include international development, resource management and environmental studies. Within the area of international development his research focuses on drinking water management, the development of governmental policies on pastoral nomads, and the effect of globalization on small farmers and pastoral nomads. Prof. Ibrahim’s interest also includes the new field of investigation into “cultural climatology”. This field investigates the knowledge of weather and climate by resource users in the developing world and how they use their knowledge in agricultural production. He presented the findings of research in this field in several AAG annual meetings and wrote three papers, two of which were sent to peer reviewed journals.

Prof. Ibrahim teaches People and the Environment; a regional course in the Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa; specialized courses on rural water supply, sanitation and hygiene education; and Geography of Sustainable Development in the Developing World at both the graduate undergraduate levels. In addition he teaches a graduate-level course in Research Topics in Geography.

Education:

Ph.D.	1985	University of Alberta, Canada, Geography
M.A.	1983	University of Khartoum, Sudan, Geography
Post-graduate Diploma	1978	University of Khartoum, Sudan,  Physical Environment of the Tropics
Post-graduate Diploma	1975	University of Khartoum, Sudan, Social Work
B.A.	1973	University of Khartoum, Sudan, Geography

Research Interests:

Environmental studies, resource management, sustainable development, water supply, sanitation and hygiene education, Africa, cultural climatology

Courses:

• Environmental Conservation: Resource Management
• Environment and Sustainable Development in the Developing Countries
• Save the Planet
• Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, & Hygiene Education
• People & their Environment
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Grants:

2001 Studies in Cultural Climatology: Traditional Methods of Soil Moisture Measurement in Chad. A Grant of $5,860 Received from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program (Carried out June 2001).

1997 Conceptual Framework for Sub-Regional Collaboration for Drought Preparedness and Mitigation. A Grant of 5,000 (Research Carried out for Office to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNSO/UNDP).