Dr. Tarek has over 37 years of experience as an architect, urban planner, real-estate developer, scholar, and senior instructor in multiple and diversified Architecture & Urban Design schools at home and overseas. He has been a Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Department of Architecture at Alexandria University of Egypt since 1996. Currently, He is the director of the Master Program (MSUD) of Urban Design, along with teaching and supervising Urban Design postgraduate courses and thesis at Effat University, Jeddah, KSA (accredited by NAAB and NCAAA). He is a visiting professor at the School of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of Texas-at-Arlington, USA, and at the Faculty of Architecture of Beirut Arab University in Beirut, Lebanon.

Dr. Ragab has a distinctive and distinguishable approach to multidisciplinary research, which answers the challenges of local and international problems. He delivered lectures, seminars, and scientific presentations in over 12 countries; and contributed widely to several international publications. He wrote articles and research papers in local and international conferences, archival journals, and magazines; co-authored books: Responsibilities and Opportunities in Urban and Architectural Conservation: Theory, Education, and Practice (USA), and IAPS volume " Requalifying the Built Environment: Challenges and Responses" (Lausanne, Switzerland). He is a member of the Award Selection Panel of the Fulbright Fellowships of Egypt and Alexandria University's Committee of Education Development. Since 2009, he has served as a member of the Planning Research Board of Reviewers at Qatar National Research Fund and the scientific board of editorials at Beirut Arab University Journal and the reputable "Cities" journal. Since 2015, he has chaired the scientific committees of the International Memaryat Conference (MIC), in addition to undertaking multiple administrative and community services tasks. He received the International Award of the Saeed Farsy Foundation in 1998. The USA Department of State awarded him two "Fulbright" fellowships at the University of Texas at Arlington (2002) and Missouri State University (2005).

He is affiliated with the Egyptian Urban Planning and Architecture Association of Egypt. His academic experience includes teaching Capstone Architecture Design studios, City Planning, and Urban Design principles and studios, applications, and theories. Other courses include research methods, international comparative housing policy, public policy, poverty-and-disparity and planning in Less Developed Countries, urban sociology, urban conservation, and land use policy and controls. He also supervised 23 Masters and Ph.D. theses to date. His courses and projects emphasize the recent development of sustainable design and planning, primate cities' conservation, and passive technologies in sustainable city planning.
Dr. Ragab has contributed to the following record of research and publications:

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