A Social View of Socotra Island: People, Culture, Heritage

Dr. Natasa Slak Valek is an Associate Professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Before that, she worked at I-Shou University in Taiwan. She also worked for ten years at the National Tourism Office in Slovenia (Slovenian Tourist Board) first as a Professional researcher, and later as a Marketing Manager. Her research focus on tourism management, art tourism, heritage tourism, cultural tourism. Her most recent publications appear in international peer reviewed academic journals such as Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, Event Management, Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Changes and Journal of International Consumer Marketing.She recently published an edited book titled Women in Tourism in Asian Muslim Countries, Springer (2021)
Dr. Ahmad Abdelmoneim Zedan is the Vice president of Socotra University. He led the internal assessment and provided consultations on the fields of comprehensive quality management and ongoing improvement. He also participated in setting up legal drafting and contract drafting courses at the Egyptian training centers. He has participated in establishing and preparing a training program for teachers and trainers to qualify them to teach Arabic for non-Arabic speakers at the AUC. For over 12 years, he has taught legal and contract drafting at the AUC, and he worked as a Project Manager at the Arabic and Translation Studies Division at the University. Furthermore, he taught legal and contract drafting at several institutions like Cairo University, Ain Shams University, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, State Information Service (SIS), Egyptian Tax Authority, Ahram Regional Institute for Journalism (AHRIJ), and Radio and Television Institute. He Translated the World Bank’s World Development Indicators in 2013, and was one of the translators of Reengineering Management Operations. He Coauthored the Arabic book Together to Study Arabic Syntax and Morphology, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2008. He Reviewed Terror Presidency, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2009 and Reviewed September 11 Events, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2009.