1. Life, study and work

2. The study of Arachnids

3. Participation in scientific societies

4. Description of new spider species

5. Books

6. Honour

Life, study and work

He was born December 19, 1955 in Mansoura city, in the Dakahlia Governorate of northern Egypt. His father, Kamal El-Din Muhammad El-Hennawy (1920–2007), a poet, journalist, army officer, and political writer, was part of the Free Officers Movement. His grandfather was the poet, journalist, and writer Muhammad Ahmad El-Hennawy (1902–1991). Both were born in Kafr El-Sheikh Khalil village, Shebin El-Kom, Menoufia Governorate. He was born in Mansoura, the home of his mother the daughter of El-Sarrag family. He grew up in Cairo and was educated in government schools, then went to Ain Shams University, graduating in 1976 from the department of zoology and chemistry. He joined the Police Academy, Faculty of specialist officers after graduation to work in the field of forensic evidence from 1978 until the year 2000. He specialized in the detection of forgeries and counterfeiting to become the first director of the Department of examining documents in the late years of his governmental service. He retired in 2000 because of bad health (Multiple Sclerosis) and to devote his time to scientific research. He still works as a consultant and a lecturer in many training centers inside and outside Egypt.

The study of Arachnids

He was interested in living creatures since childhood. Trips to the zoo with his mother inspired a love of animals. His father encouraged him to be attracted to all aspects of knowledge of science, literature and fine arts. Although literature and classical music attracted him, biology attracted him more. His readings and breeding of different species of living organisms, e.g. mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, spiders, mollusks, algae and plants, with notes about some of them since boyhood. The first of his blog on spiders was in high school. He didn't have the option of studying abroad, so his search for a professor under whom to study spiders led him to realize that he had to be self-reliant. He worked alone from the beginning, contributing to papers published in the field and contacting scientists from various countries to request their papers.

Participation in scientific societies

• International Society of Arachnology  , ISA since 1979, he is the correspondent of Egypt and a member of the International Committee of correspondents.
• British Arachnological Society   since 1979.
• Australasian Arachnological Society   since 1980.
• Egyptian Entomological Society since 1980.
• The Spider Club of Southern Africa since 1982.
• American Arachnological Society   since 1985.
• Groupe d'Etude des Arachnides since 1991.
• European Society of Arachnology  , ESA since 2000.

He also contributed to the establishment of several scientific societies in Egypt, and participated in several activities of internal and external seminars and conferences Since 1982 until now, the most important of them:

• Egypt's first National Conference of Entomology held by the Egyptian Society of Entomology in 1982.
• Conferences of the International Society of Arachnology: Ninth in 1983 in Panama, and thirteenth in Geneva in 1995, and fifteenth in South Africa in 2001, and sixteenth in Belgium in 2004.
• Conferences of the European Society of Arachnology: XVII in Edinburgh in 1997, and the twenty-third in Spain in 2006, and the twenty-fifth in Greece in 2009.
• First Conference of the bio-diversity in the Middle East in 2008.
• Third Conference of the Asian Society of Arachnology in India in 2015.

He presented several papers and posters in those conferences.

• He had contributed papers on spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids for several scientific journals outside and inside Egypt.
• He published "Serket"Serket (journal) (The Arachnological Bulletin of North Africa and the Middle East) on his own expense since 1987 until now.
• He had a large number of field trips in Egypt in order to explore and to collect samples of different arachnids, the most important of them were to Wadi Rayan, protectorates of North and South Sinai, and reserves of the northern coast of Egypt from Rafah to Umayyad as well as Siwa and other areas in the Nile Valley. Some of those trips to nature reserves were in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment . As well as trips outside Egypt, the most in Jordan.
• He participated in the UNESCO Committee for the study of Egypt's northern oases since 2002, that led to the Declaration of the Valley of the Whales in the Fayoum region to be of the World Heritage since August 2005. Such activity is still continuing to study the area adjacent to the Mount Qatrani.
• He participated in the database project samples of biological diversity in the Arab foreign natural history museums (UNESCO and the University of Cairo) since 2004.
• He founded the "Arachnid Collection of Egypt, ACE" in Cairo since 2004.
• He was a member of the National Committee of Biological Sciences, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology since 2004, nominated by the great Egyptian scientist Prof. Dr. Abdel Hafiz Helmy Muhammad.
• He visited Turkey due to the invitation of the Turkish Arachnological Society, 2007.
• He visited the Sudan in 2008 at the invitation of the Museum of Natural History - Faculty of Science - University of Khartoum.
• He has a limited number of articles published on arachnids, and contributed to warrant several general lectures on arachnids in the Egyptian Entomological Society, University of Suez Canal and Desert Research Centre, Institute of Plant Protection, Ministry of Agriculture, Al Azhar University - Assiut branch, and El-Sawy Cultural Wheel, and Ain Shams University, Centre of Environment - St. Catherine, and the University of Khartoum, and others.
• He has 103 papers since 1985. They were published in a number of international and local scientific journals and in the proceedings of some scientific conferences and congresses.

Description of new spider species

Cheiracanthium siwi El-Hennawy, 2001 - Egypt

Eresus algericus El-Hennawy, 2004 - Algeria

Eresus jerbae El-Hennawy, 2005 - Tunisia & Algeria

Ninetis toliara Huber & El-Hennawy, 2007 - Madagascar

Hersiliola eltigani El-Hennawy, 2010 - Sudan & Burkina Faso

Books

• He reviewed the "Dictionary of Biology" to Kamal El-Din El-Hennawy in 1990.
• His book "Egyptian Arachnids" was published by the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs in 2002. This is the first book in this topic in Arabic.
• He re-published the plates of arachnids of the book " Description of Egypt "in three issues of his bulletin Serket in 1993. He reviewed the translation of the comments on those plates, in sections No. 30 and 35 of the translation of "Encyclopedia of Description of Egypt" published by the family library in 2005 (the Egyptian General Book Organization - Cairo).
• He wrote and published a book on his own expense on " Hieroglyphics for Beginners "in 2004 in Arabic. Thereafter, he translated it and published it in English, Spanish and German in 2005, then French in 2006, after a kind thorough revisions by his acknowledged friends of different countries.
• His book "The Spiders" was published by Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (SRT) of the Ministry of Scientific Research of Egypt in 2016. This is the first book in this topic in Arabic.

Also, he translated two books, from English to Arabic:

• " Tutankhamun, From the worship of Amun to the worship of Aten to monotheism in ancient Egypt "in 2003. (Published by Academic library - {{ISBN|977-281-221-5}})
• " Rosetta Stone And discovery of the secrets of Ancient Egyptian Language "in 2005. (Published by Academic library - {{ISBN|977-281-272-X}})

Honour

• The French scientist, Wilson Lourenço named a new species of scorpions in 2005 after his name: Buthus elhennawyi, in recognition for his role in the study of scorpions in North Africa.
• He visited Turkey at the invitation of the Turkish Arachnological Society in 2007.
• He visited the Sudan in 2008 at the invitation of the Museum of Natural History - Faculty of Science - University of Khartoum.
• The great Egyptian scientist of plant ecology Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdel Fattah El-Qassas retribution in his book "Paces in the twentieth century and beyond" of 2008 (p. 201-202), said that he is " Egypt's expert of the large groups of spiders and scorpions. He made of himself and his home a scientific institution, to combine the samples and to work on classification, and correspond with the scientific centres in Europe and America, and issued a scientific journal that is recognized for publishing research and studies of this group of animals, and resorted to graduate students and research in the Egyptian universities to guide and to use. He quit his job in the police and devoted his time, without help or take care of anyone, for his scientific work, and remained a model for the Egyptians who are living in challenge."

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