Background
His mother Zainab was the only daughter of a fisherman from Portuguese Said. His father worked for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ahram newspaper in Cairo from 1969 to 1993.
His mother Zainab was the only daughter of a fisherman from Portuguese Said. His father worked for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ahram newspaper in Cairo from 1969 to 1993.
In 1998, he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in the field of information science. The thesis was titled The online databases industry in Egypt.
Zain is the eldest of six brothers. In 1979, Abdul Hady obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor of Arts) from the Department of Libraries and Information Science, the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University, with general mention very good. In 1995, he obtained his masters from the same department in the field of information science, the thesis of his master was titled Expert systems for reference services in IDSC Library.
Doctor Abdul Hady holds the academic rank of Professor, and he chaired as Head of the Department of Libraries and Information science in the Faculty of Arts, Helwan University, in Cairo.
He also held the post of the Information and System Development Consultant at the Arab Administrative Development Organization from 2005 until October 2008, and between May 2011 and May 2012 worked as Chairman of public authority of the Egyptian National Library and Archives.