​Dr. Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim is a Professor of Architectural Design and Theory in Cairo University – Egypt and the Principal of CDC (Community Design Collaborative), a private architectural/planning and community development consultancy firm. 

Over the last 20 years Dr. Abdelhalim has worked on a significant number of challenging projects with some of the world’s most renowned Architects. He has developed a sound knowledge of working with traditional designs, materials and systems. 
Publications The Building Ceremony: The Regenerative Process of Building, Ph.D. Thesis, University of California- Berkeley, 1978. 

Dr. Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim was selected as the 2020 laureate of Tamayouz’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The highest accolade of the Tamayouz Excellence Award is awarded annually to an individual “who have made significant contributions towards humanity and the advancement of architecture and the built environment in the Near East and North Africa”

Dr. Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim is the 2020 laureate of Tamayouz’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He will receive this honor at Tamayouz’s annual ceremony, postponed to 2021. Established in 2014, the award, part of the Tamayouz Excellence Award program, “recognizes those whose commitments to architecture were and continue to be unparalleled”. Initially created for Iraq’s renowned architects, the award opened to individuals from across the Near East and North Africa in 2019, when it was granted to Palestinian-Jordanian architect Rasem Badran