Biography:

Dr. Abbas Al-Jamali was born in Baghdad, during the Hashemite monarchy. He attended government elementary then American Jesuit high schools. He has a B.Sc. in Crop Production and Protection and an M.Sc. in Subtropical Horticulture from the AUB. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the Dept. of Horticulture, Purdue University where Darwin and evolution basic ideas were presented and discussed in both lectures & texts. After his Ph.D. Dr. Al-Jamali was the first person to teach Plant Biology in Arabic in Algeria. He also taught Cytology, Taxonomy of Vascular Plants, Biochemistry and Plant Physiolgy. He taught Advanced Plant Physiology, trilingually, to students in the M.Sc. program which he helped establish at the Ecole Normale Superiure, Kouba, Algiers. Some of these students went on to obtain Ph.D.s from the U.K. Since 1994 Dr. Al-Jamali has been teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in the Dept. of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Jordan University of Science & Technology

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