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Naaman Ali Khalaf (1962-) is a Palestinian zoologist and environmentalist with German citizenship. His family hails from the town of Al-Eizariya, east of the Jerusalem Governorate . He is an ecologist and geologist , born in Saarbrücken , Germany in 1962. Khalaf completed his education in Kuwait, and obtained a master's degree from Durham University in the UK in ecology, and a doctorate from the University of Bonn in Germany , with a thesis entitled "The Behavior of Carnivores", and from Ashwood University in the United States of America, specializing in animal behavior and ecology. He currently holds the position of lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Dubai , in addition to many Arab and international universities and colleges as a visiting lecturer. He received the Palestinian Scientific Personality Award for the year 2014.
His academic life
Dr. Naaman Khalaf has presented many researches and field studies on wildlife specializing in zoology and mammals . His first publication was a Palestinian scientific periodical that monitored and listed the animals of the Palestinian environment entitled “ The Gazelle” when he was a student at the Faculty of Science at Kuwait University in 1983. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of Bonn in Germany, he began to roam the Arab world searching for new things in the animal world and excavating its fossils, starting from Palestine to Lebanon , Kuwait , Syria , Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Qatar , Bahrain , Oman and the Emirates . In addition to his research related to the Arab environment in European countries such as Germany, France and Britain . His stop in the Emirates was also full of discoveries after he registered in his name three local discoveries of two Emirati fish in Wadi Al-Wariah, in addition to his discovery of the fossils of the Emirati elephant in the Abu Dhabi desert . Most of his research focused on studying animal environments and indigenous, hybrid and endemic species of the Palestinian land. Although the brutal Israeli aggression machine does not differentiate between humans and animals in destruction and devastation, the area of Palestine , which is 27 thousand square kilometers, contains many topographical differences, such as the marine environment on the Mediterranean coast, the Red Sea coast in the Aqaba region , the desert environment in the Negev desert in southern Palestine, and the mountainous environment such as Jerusalem and the Hebron Mountains . Khalaf was able to record discoveries of animal species in his name, including: the Palestinian jackal known as the wawi, the Gaza house mouse, which differs in its genetic characteristics from other mice in its brown and white color, the Wadi Qana fish , the Palestinian sycamore fish fossil, and the Jerusalem dinosaurs .
His writings and research
Khalaf’s scientific works, which he published over 35 years, include 11 books, four of which are part of the “ Animals of Palestine ” series; which are scientific studies and research on the Palestinian environment, in addition to many studies and research that targeted Arab environments and are published in three languages: Arabic, English and German, including:
The Book of the Gazelle: The Palestinian Bulletin of Biology. 2004, Germany.
Scientific journey in Arab hydrology. 2005, Germany.
Arabian Mammals, 2006.
Arabian Horses, 2007.
Arabian Carnivores, 2008.
Animals of Palestine - Part One. 2009, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Animals of the Emirates - Part 1. 2010, Dubai and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Animals of Palestine - Part Two. 2012, Dar Al-Jundi for Publishing and Distribution, Jerusalem, Palestine.
The family of Sharif Hajj Tahir Muhammad Ahmad Ahmad Mustafa Khalaf (Abu Othman). An illustrated history of a Palestinian Jaffa family in the twentieth century. 2018, National Research Center, Palestine University, Gaza, State of Palestine.
Co-author of the book “Guide - Palestine” (2005-2006).
His scientific contributions
He has contributions in the field of zoology and environmental awareness, especially after discovering attempts to steal Palestinian scientific names and attribute them to the Israeli occupation , such as the Palestinian mountain gazelle and changing it to the Israeli mountain gazelle, as well as the name of the Palestinian sunbird and changing it to the orange bird, an attempt to seize the Palestinian mole , and with the aim of promoting environmental concepts and raising the level of environmental awareness in Palestinian society, especially among students, he launched the Naaman Ali Khalaf Award for Biodiversity in Palestine.
2013 Norman Khalaf Award for Biodiversity in Palestine for the Palestine Sunbird, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the Palestine Wildlife Society, based in Beit Sahour.
2014, Palestine Wildlife Award, Palestinian Mountain Gazelle Photography Competition in Gaza Strip.
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