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.

娜塔莎·斯拉克·瓦萊克博士是阿拉伯聯合大公國阿布達比扎耶德大學的副教授。在此之前，她曾在台灣的義守大學工作。她還在斯洛維尼亞國家旅遊辦公室（斯洛維尼亞旅遊局）工作了十年，最初擔任專業研究員，後來擔任市場經理。她的研究重點包括旅遊管理、藝術旅遊、遺產旅遊和文化旅遊。她最近的出版物發表在國際同行評審的學術期刊上，如《目的地行銷與管理期刊》、《事件管理》、《旅遊管理觀點》、《旅遊與文化變遷期刊》和《國際消費者行銷期刊》。她最近出版了一本編輯書籍，名為《亞洲穆斯林國家的女性旅遊》，由Springer於2021年出版。

艾哈邁德·阿卜杜勒莫尼姆·澤丹博士是索科特拉大學的副校長。他負責內部評估並提供有關全面品質管理和持續改進的諮詢。他還參與了埃及培訓中心的法律草擬和合同草擬課程的設立。他參與建立和準備一個培訓計劃，旨在使教師和培訓師能夠教授非阿拉伯語人士阿拉伯語，該計劃在美國開羅大學進行。超過12年來，他在美國開羅大學教授法律和合同草擬，並擔任該大學阿拉伯語和翻譯研究部的項目經理。此外，他還在開羅大學、艾因沙姆斯大學、薩達特管理科學學院、國家信息服務局（SIS）、埃及稅務局、阿赫拉姆地區新聞學院（AHRIJ）和廣播電視學院等多個機構教授法律和合同草擬。他於2013年翻譯了世界銀行的《世界發展指標》，並且是《再造管理運作》的翻譯者之一。他合著了阿拉伯語書籍《一起學習阿拉伯語句法與形態學》，由Nahdet Masr出版社於2008年出版。他還審閱了《恐怖總統》，由Nahdet Masr出版社於2009年出版，並審閱了《九一一事件》，由Nahdet Masr出版社於2009年出版。