Malik Badri

Professor Dr. Malik BadriA product of the American University of Beirut, internationally well known clinical psychologist and the author of The Dilemma of Muslim Psychologists, Malik Badri was born on February 16, 1932 in Rufaa, a small Sudanese town on the Blue Nile. He obtained his B.A. (with Distinction) and his M.A. degrees from the American University of Beirut in 1956 and 1958 respectively and his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, England in 1961. He further obtained his Postgraduate Certificate of Clinical Psychology from the Academic Department of Psychiatry of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of London University in 1966. In 1977, he was elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society and in 1989 he was awarded the title of Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol) from the same British Society. He was awarded an honorary D.Sc. from the Ahfad University and was decorated in 2003 by the President of Sudan, Omar Albashir with the medal of Shahid Zubair which is the highest award for academic excellence.