Professor Malek has been extensively published in many professional publications.
PACIFIC GROVE, CA, June 22, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Bahgat W. Malek has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
After a long and successful career in academia, Professor Malek retired in 2009 from his role as a dean in the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey, California. Hired to teach in the institute's Arabic department and serve at the Asian/Middle East directorate in 1974, he continued to earn successive titles as a full professor, department chair, program manager at DLI's distance education, and, among other positions, the associate provost for undergraduate education. Mr. Malek spent 35 years with the DLIFLC and now serves in a volunteer capacity as a consultant. Prior to his tenure in education, he worked as a chemist in Orange County, California.
An innovator in his field, Professor Malek was responsible for developing a program at the DLIFLC in 2006 known as ProMES, which stands for Professional Military Education System. Recognized as an anti-terrorism language program, it serves to train unit commanders ranking majors from all services going to Afghanistan, Iraq, and several other overseas locations. Mr. Malek notably facilitated these training programs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Maxwell Air Force Base, the Command and General Staff College, as well as at the DLIFLC.
As part of his professional commitments, Professor Malek spent more than a decade speaking at events about various leadership styles and strategies, training teachers how to communicate with generation X and millennial Americans, and other topics. He has also spoken before some representatives from the National Security Agency and on behalf of the DLIFLC at the 2005 Arab Working Group Conference in Washington, D.C.
A widely recognized author, Professor Malek has been extensively published in many professional publications. He and his teams have authored 30 books for the DLIFLC in both English and Arabic and translated several books for famous American authors, including Max Lucado. Furthermore, Mr. Malek has translated and published hundreds of pages of sermons of Charles Spurgeon, an English Particular Baptist preacher, and served as a specialist interpreter for 19th Century English.
On behalf of his local community, Professor Malek has been serving as a volunteer chaplain at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula since 2010. He also established and has been pastoring the Arab Christian Center of the Assemblies of God in Pacific Grove, California, since 1978, which serves as the first Arabic speaking AG Church in the U.S. Professor Malek previously chaired the Arabic Department C, Middle East School II, for the DLIFLC between 1991 and 2003 and served on the school steering committee and participated in pioneering a new high school, Calvary Chapel High School, in Pacific Grove between 2000 and 2001, which is now known as Trinity High School in Monterey.
Professor Malek received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and geology at Assuit University in Egypt in 1965 and a master's degree in education at Golden State University in California in 1985. He also completed graduate studies in education and foreign language teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz, LaVerne University, and Chapman University between 1976 and 1982.
Recognizing his achievements, Professor Malek received several Superior Performance Awards as an Arabic teacher between 1976 and 1991, was named as the Distinguished DLIFLC Instructor of the Year by the Kiwanis Club of the Monterey Peninsula in 1980, and received a Coin of Excellence from Colonel Daniel D. Devlin in 1999 and Colonel Michael R. Simone in 2003. He also received multiple Outstanding Performance awards and coins of excellence during the 1970s to the 1990s.
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