Hesham Sallam
2000
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Egypt
native language: Arabic
languages spoken, written or signed: Arabic, Egyptian Arabic
educated at: Mansoura University, University of Oxford
occupation: paleontologist
Hesham Sallam (Arabic: هشام سلام; born 1975) is an Egyptian paleontologist and the founder of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP-C), the first vertebrate paleontology program in the Middle East. He works as an associate professor at the American University in Cairo and Mansoura University. Sallam led the discovery and description of Mansourasaurus shahinae, a species of sauropod dinosaur from Egypt, which has improved understanding of the prehistory of Africa during the latest Cretaceous period. His work has helped popularize paleontology in Egypt. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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