Professor Raouf Abbas was a leading Egyptian historian and a professor of modern history at Cairo University and president of the Egyptian Society of Historical Studies.
Academic career - Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1996–1999. - Visiting Full-time Professor, Department of Arabic Studies, The American University in Cairo, 1992-1996. - Professor of Modern History, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, from 1981-2008. - Chairman, History Department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1982-1988. - Associate Professor of Modern History, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1977-1981. - Lecturer, Qatar University, 1974-1978. - Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1971-1976. - Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1967-1971.
Academic Activities - Visiting Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, April 1972 - January 1973; May - September 1977. - Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Study of languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University for Foreign Studies, February - September 1973; July - September 1987; October 1989 - September 1990. - Visiting Professor, Sorbonne University, Paris IV, February 1980. - Visiting Professor, Essen, Kiel, Hamburg and Freiburg Universities, Germany, November - December 1982. - Part-time Lecturer, CASA, The American University in Cairo, 1983 - 1991. - Lecture Tour in USA organized by MESA, covered UCLA, USCLA, SCULA, Stanford University, Georgia State University, Mills College (November 1990). - Organized and Chaired six symposiums and conferences in Cairo and Ain Shams Universities, Egypt, 1978 - 1993. - Chairman, Historical Studies Unit, Center of Political and Strategic Studies, Al-Ahram Organization, Cairo, since February 1980. - Member, The Permanent Academic Committee of History, Supreme Council of the Egyptian Universities, since October 1985. - Member, History Committee, The Supreme Council of Culture, Egypt, 1991-2008. - President, The Egyptian Historical Studies Association, 1999-2008. - Editor in Chief, Ruzname, Annual Bulletin of the Egyptian National Archives, Cairo 2003-2008.
Honors - Holder of Science and Arts Decoration, First class, Awarded by the President of Egypt, February 1983. - State Prize of Distinguished Academic Achievement in Social Science, Egypt, June 2000.