Ahmed Shams

[early accounts published by] Ahmed Shams teaches International Cultural Heritage Management (ICHM) at Durham University and is a research consultant at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa ― EAMENA project), and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and a member of the UNESCO-ICOM. Dr Shams is the founder of Sinai Peninsula Research (SPR) ― a 19-year field survey and cross-disciplinary and inter-sectoral 14,000 plus points-of-interest GIS database. His current research focuses on knowledge-making, mapping & mapmaking, cartographic archaeology, landscape, archaeology & politics, and land-use in Sinai Peninsula and the Middle East and the Alps. He frequently publishes scholarly and press articles, gives public talks and contributes to projects, exhibitions and catalogues at UCL, RGS, LMEI/SOAS, Oxford, LoC, etc. Sinai Peninsula Research (SPR) http://durham.academia.edu/AhmedShams http://ahmedshams.com/sinai-peninsula