​Consultations and Academia Contributions “Al MuwaHiddoun to Druze and Back Again: In Search of True Identity”.American University of Beirut, Conference on The Druze: Celebrating a Thousand Years of Diversity, October 2018 Can Hip-Hop Help Combat Religious Extremism? Full length Film “Noisey Lebanon”.  Watch
https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/noisey-lebanon-documentary-full-hip-hop-beirut Screen Time: solutions and beyond   22 January 2017 Clarion School PTO Assembly. Balanced-4-Life: Before BurnOut WestBow Press 2016 Transforming Dysfunctional Organization: Convergences in Applied Clinical, Social, & I/O Psychology, [Workshop, 3 hours] Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines (16 April 2016) Selected as Judge, HULT PRIZE of the Clinton Foundation, American University of Sharjah. On 12 December 2015. Marriage Map: Chaos to Cooperation [workshop]  St Mary’s Church, Family Ministry, Dubai UAE.  On 07 December 2015. Forensic Psychology in the UAE.  The UAE Psychologist Newsletter, Vol 5. May-Dec. 2015, page 5 & 14. Psychology of Terrorists: 4 Types [New Dimensions] North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, KeyNote Address at the Perioperative Nursing Conference,
07 November 2015 July 2015 Cultural Competency Grand Rounds, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Lecture: “The Practical Side of Psychology in the Arab Gulf States: Beyond Language” and Workshops: “Relating to the Arab Gulf Families” April 2015, [Psychiatry Conference] 3rd Annual International Mood and Anxiety Treatment Guideline Congress, Dubai UAE.  Keynote Address: “Culture Conditioning and Emotions: the affective balance for better practice”. April 2015, Fulbright Scholars – Afghanistan, Workshop: “Reverse Culture Shock”.  Miami University in Oxford Ohio, sponsored by US Department of State, and International Institute of Education. December 2014 Geriatric Summit, President. Facilitator of the National Capacity Building panel of experts: Guidelines for Laws, Ethical Principles, Scope of Practice for Geriatrics and Gerontology. October 2014, The Henry C Lee Institute of Forensic Sciences, Arnold Markle Symposium. Psychology Perspective on Elderly Abuse Lecture/Workshop,
University of New Haven, Connecticut. February 2014, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Conference. True Faces of Terrorists seminar, Seattle, Washington. December 2013, Dr. Hamden was the opening Keynote Address at the ASIS 7th Asia-Pacific Security Forum, Macau China.  The topic was “New Dimensions in Profiling Terrorists”. October 2013, The Henry C Lee Institute of Forensic Sciences, Arnold Markle Symposium. Global Perspective on Profiling Offenders: Interview with Alleged Offenders and Prevention Workshop, University of New Haven, Connecticut. May 2013, HEDAYAH [Abu Dhabi] led a “Closed Meeting of Experts of Psychology in Rehabilitation of Violent Extremists”, in collaboration with United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute [UNICRI], International Center for Counter Terrorism [ICCT] The Hague, the Bureau of Counterterrorism in the US Department of State invited Dr. Hamden to be a participant in this post hoc to the Rome Memorandum On Good Practices for Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Violent Extremist Offenders. With the University of Maryland, Dr. Hamden was a 1986 Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.  His research and consulting was in Political Psychology – the psychology of terrorists and hostage situations.  He coined the term “The Retributional Terrorist – Type 4”. His work “The Retributional Terrorist – Type 4” was published as a chapter in a 4-volume text entitled The Psychology of Terrorism, Dr. Chris Stout (editor, 2002). Also, he is invited to write a chapter entitled "Unresolved Trauma and the Thirst for Revenge: The Retributional Terrorist" for Volume I of a three-volume project entitled The Making of A Terrorist by James JF Forest, Ph.D. (editor 2005) of The West Point United States Military Academy. Dr. Hamden is a completing a contracted book on Psychology of Terrorists: Tools for Profiling (Taylor & Francis Publishers, expected to be published 2018). By invitation, he has presented before the US Senate and wrote for the US House of Representatives: “Psychological Aspects of IsTishHad:   Suicide or Sacrifice” expert witness testimony presented before the United States Senate Anti-Terrorism Caucus, special topic on the Middle East suicide missions.  Washington, D.C. 26 March 1986 “Islamic Fundamentalism:  Terrorism or Psychological Resistance” written testimony submitted to and published in the series of HEARINGS before the subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S.  House of Representatives. Washington, D.C., Fall / Winter 1985, Page 416-425. Other expert publications and presentation include Psychology of Terrorists: 4 Types [New Dimensions] North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, KeyNote Address at the Perioperative Nursing Conference,07 November 2015 Proper Relations to Prosperous Resolutions, presented at TedX Muscat, May 2011 Forensic Science in the Islamic Legal System, presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Conference, February 2013, Washington, DC Suicidal terrorists, in Herzog-Evans M., Transnational Criminology Manual, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2010 A Dysfunctional Nation and Its People: Becoming Functional Keynote Address presented at the April 2007 Conference 2nd MENA Regional Conference of Psychology Psychology of Safety: a challenged perspectiveSeminar/workshop presented at the September 2006 ConferenceAmerican Board of Certification in Homeland Security The Retributional Terrorist - Type 4".  University of Maryland - Center for International Development and Conflict Management, College Park. Fall 1987 On Being Druze: a Psycho-Social Perspective. Middle East Insight, Washington, D.C.  Volume 4 Number 1, February 1985. Dr. Hamden has presented training and performed consultation in Critical Incident Debriefing and Emergency Planning as well as Trauma Situation and Identification and Political Psychology in Afghanistan, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Israel, France, India, Iran, Lebanon, USA, and in more than 30 international locations. At the Winter 2011 Conference, Dr. Hamden was admitted to Membership in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS).  Fellow status was awarded in February 2015 at AAFS Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences section. As a member of the American Business Council of Dubai and the Northern Emirates (ABC), he served on the 2008 Nomination Committee, Chair of the 2002 Overseas Security Advisory Committee (OSAC).  In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the ABC and was the OSAC liaison. A co-convener of the Globalization for the Common Good – an international conference, this event was held March 2004 in Dubai.  At two of these conferences [including Oxford University], Dr. Hamden presented on Al Tawhid Faith, connection with GOD and each other.