Career
Helal served as the Cultural and Scientific Chancellor in the Egyptian embassy in Paris. Helal worked as professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (1993), and the Head of Singor University, Alexandria (October 2004). He was as an expert in Earth Sciences Programs of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s regional office in Cairo (1993), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization consultant of International Laboratory for Scantron, Jordan (2002).
Helal graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (with honors) in 1974, and he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Earth Sciences (Rock Mechanics and Engineering).