Zaghloul El-Naggar Biography

Dr. El-Naggar was born on 17 November 1933. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cairo. El-Naggar obtained his PhD in geology from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom in 1963 where his thesis title was "Geology and stratigraphic palaeontology of the Esna-Idfu Region, Nile Valley, Egypt, U.A.R.". El-Naggar was an elected Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences (1988), the Geological Society of Egypt, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was imprisoned because of his political activism and beliefs during his student life. He was considered a grave threat to secular political establishment of Egypt. He was exiled from Egypt in early 1960s and could return to his country only in 1970.

El-Naggar died in Amman, Jordan on 9 November 2025, at the age of 91.