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, He is a teacher of Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the, Milieux, Observations Spatiales". His research interests include waveguides, scattering by gratings and rough surfaces, 1993.

, Saddek Afifi received the Ph.D degree (Docteur Ingénieur) in electronics from Blaise Pascal University