All are invited to an open talk with the details as follows :-
Title : The Behaviour of Hajj Crowd at Mina
Date: 6 April 2015 (Monday)
Time: 2.00pm – 4.30pm
Venue: Lecture Hall 9, Block N24, UTM Johor Bahru
Please register by sending your particular (Name, Staff No, Name of Faculty) to Nor Azfalela Jamaludin<norazfalela-sps@utm.my> the latest by Sunday, 5 April 2015 @12 pm.
<Online registration for PG students here>
Synopsis of The Behaviour of Hajj Crowd at Mina
Once a year, Muslims of every ethnic group, colour, social level, and culture gather from all over the world in Makkah to perform the Fifth Pillar of Islam, the Hajj. Hajj is a sequence of rituals performed by 2-3 million people within specific times and places. Despite its huge cultural significance and the number of serious crowd accidents that have occurred there in the past, very little social psychological research has been carried out on the Hajj. This talk is designed to highlight the importance of studying the behaviour of Hajj crowds as a means to increase the safety levels and facilitate effective management of the Hajj crowd at the holy site of Mina. This talk will start with a brief historical background of crowds’ disasters in Hajj. Then, it will explore the current spatial-temporal characteristics and constraints of Mina. Next, some research challenges will be discussed side by side with the main research aim and objectives of the speaker’s ongoing research. The talk will end-up by highlighting the need for advanced technologies and recommending some future work. This talk is recommended to attendance from any field.
About the speaker:
Mr. Badr Alsolami is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Built Environment at UTM and under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Mohamed Rashid Embi.
Badr has ten years experience as an academic staff at Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He holds a combined MS in Architecture & Urban design from Sydney University, Australia. He works in Hajj since 1998 and participates in more than ten research projects in Makkah & Madinah with three major research centres in UQU: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research, Transportation and Crowd Management Center of Research Excellence, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology GIS Technology Innovation Center. Also, Badr has interests in innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has a patent application filed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Moreover, he was rewarded the prize of the best entrepreneurship project from UQU.
