Mohamed El-Hodiri

After receiving his undergraduate education in Business and economics (major) in Cairo University 1954-1958, mathematics and economics in Russia (1958-1959) and US 1958-1966 completing Ph.D. in Economics and Mathematical Statistics, MA in Economics, and MA in Mathematics, all from the University of Minnesota. Professor El-Hodiri speaks (classical, contemporary, and all dialects of) Arabic, English, and Russian and is moderately proficient in French and Biblical Hebrew. He is very well informed on Arab History, Islam, and Middle Eastern religious history (esp. EGYPT). He has published over 30 articles in the top journals in economics and mathematics, 15 book reviews, poems in Arabic and English, and 5 books in economics and mathematics.