The death of Abdul Rahman Hassanein Makhlouf .. the scheme of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Today, the Egyptian engineer Abdel Rahman Makhlouf, Abu Dhabi city planner, died in the United Arab Emirates, at the age of 98.
Dr. Makhlouf, the architect, while sitting on the ground with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, "may God rest his soul", the founding father, planned the city of Abu Dhabi at Qasr Al Bahr.
The result was a modern Manhattan grid-style city with a stunning Corniche and many modern-day marvels.
In 1968, the ruler of Abu Dhabi at the time, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, asked the United Nations to send a city planning expert to Abu Dhabi to help prepare the general plan of the city of Abu Dhabi. Makhlouf was nominated for this task, and he was appointed as director of city planning in Abu Dhabi.
The Egyptian architect assumed the tasks of urban planning in them and the establishment of a city planning department in each of the cities of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, and that was for a period of approximately seven years. Urban Planning at the College of Engineering at the UAE University from 1983 to 1985.
In 2010, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, honored Engineer Abdul Rahman Makhlouf and gifted him the Abu Dhabi Prize, and in 2011, he was honored by the cultural attaché of the Egyptian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
Engineer Abdul Rahman Makhlouf obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Cairo University in 1950, and a Ph.D. from Germany in 1957.
Before moving to Abu Dhabi, Eng. Mukhlif completed several projects in Saudi Arabia.
About this, the engineer says in a previous interview with the Emirati newspaper The National: "I had already worked in cities in Saudi Arabia, such as Mecca, Medina and Jeddah. So I was familiar with the Gulf."
He added, "My father's name was also famous in the Islamic world, Sheikh Hassanein Muhammad Makhlouf, the Grand Mufti of Egypt. So my name sounded familiar."
Abdul Rahman Makhlouf was born in 1924. Since his childhood, he loved to draw geometric shapes and urban designs for various buildings, and he was fond of the details of architecture, and this love grew with his growth and enlargement, even though he was born and raised in a family whose men were famous for being Azharite scholars, and most of them were members In the Al-Azhar Scholars Authority, his father served as the Grand Mufti of Egypt.
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