Academic Members of University of Kyrenia, Belal Shnaikat Ph.D., Emete Toros Ph.D., Ahmet ZAİFER Ph.D. have been appointed as Assistant Professors.
Date Added: 25 January 2018, 08:12
Last Updated Date:01 February 2018, 14:45


University of Kyrenia Academic members Belal Shnaikat Ph.D., Emete Toros Ph.D., Ahmet ZAİFER Ph.D., working on topics related to Economics and Administrative Sciences have been appointed as Assistant Professors on 23rd of January 2018.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Belal Shneikat got his B.Sc. in Regional Planning and MBA from Al Balqa’ Applied University in Jordan in 2005 and 2008 respectively. He got Ph.D. in Business Administration from Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 2016. He has published three articles in SSCI journals, one in Scupos and two conference papers. These articles and conference covered different topics in business and tourism management such as organizational behavior, refugees and service industries, e-lancing, educational tourism, coopetition, favoritism and nepotism. Asst. Prof. Shneikat joined the University of Kyrenia in October 2016 as lecturer and he has been promoted recently to Asst. Prof. He has taught different courses at the faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences such as international business, entrepreneurship, introduction to business, principles of management, operations management, mathematics for tourism, micro and macroeconomics.

Assistant Prof. Emete Toros was graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Communications in Public Relations degree in 1996. She had her master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of West Georgia while she also worked as a research assistant. She completed her PhD degree in Business Administration at the University of Salford in 2013 with the doctoral dissertation on “Country Branding and Reputation Management”. She has publications in SSCI and Scopus scanned journals. Asst. Prof. Emete Toros has attended many international conferences and presented papers on ‘Country and City Branding’.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Zaifer was graduated from Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Political Science and International Relations degree in 2010. He had his MSc degree in International Public Policy from the University College London (UCL) in 2011. He completed his PhD in Political Economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) in 2015 while he also worked as a graduate teaching assistant. His doctoral dissertation was on “The Acceleration of the Privatisation Process in Turkey: Why in the 2000s?”. He has publications in SSCI and Scopus scanned journals.

We would like to congratulate and wish success to our Faculty of Economics and Administrative teaching members Asst. Prof. Belal Shnaikat, Asst. Prof.Emete Toros Ph.D. and Asst. Prof. Ahmet ZAİFER appointed as Assistant Professors on 23 rd of January 2018. They have met all the requirements and criteria of the Academic Promotion and Appointment Guideline.