Page 7 - Issue12-English

ELITE
|P A G E 6 I Is ss su ue e 1 12 2- October 2019

Our Student Founding Editors Celebrate

ELITE first batch undergraduate editors narrate their experiences with ELITE

Nouran Husam Essraa Yaccoub

The deepest thing that might touch someone from the Do you remember when your tiny hands were taught how to

inside and make a difference is the change. What if this hold a pen? Do you remember when you wrote your first
change is going constantly in a loop that does not stand?So word wondering what does a word even mean?
was my experience with Elite. A shade of change has I do remember!
tinged me and I felt that it was a situation that comprised
everyone who have passed by and asked about it, which I remember when I was fascinated of the smell of a new brand
has not stopped at one of them but moved and still in a notebook. I remember how I loved the feeling of holding a
motion like a phenomenon that inspires everyone who has book and surfing its papers. I remember how I was deeply
heard of it to read or participate. Some of them have joined watching my mother’s writings wondering from where she
us with support, some have contributed actively and got these exquisite words and how she was inspired.
timely, with some of them have been impressed, and all Why do we even write?
that was enough for us.
A puzzle that I couldn’t solve. Do I write because I’m not
It started with an idea and confidence within each other brave enough to spell these written words out? Do I write out
and drained a deluge of time and flux of ideas in several of my belief that the one who writes never die and that
consecutive meetings until the first electronic version of writing is like the ranks of eternity? Maybe I write for all of
the Elite came out. Perhaps, we will not remember the these reasons. I write because it’s how I release my pain and
difficulties we faced to feel the first success in the history break my silence.
of the Elite with the publication of its first issue, but we Under the love spell of the press, I knocked every door to
will certainly be alert that a year has passed since this start practicing it, to be the carrier of every truth, the voice for
unique experience. That experience has been rooted in the every weak and the illumination for every darkness. When
belief that change is an idea, that our current reality was an ELITE answered my call, Iopeneda door to dozens of
idea and that the impact inevitably remains. The hours, interviews. I’ve written op-eds, and political analysis. Despite
days and months that have passed have left us with a my imperfections,Elite has given me a golden chance to truly
dignified mark that will not leave us with anyboredom in a discover this profession and to let my scattered letters and my
long way to go and we will only seek to keep the trace to imprisoned wordsfind a path to the light.
be followed by everyone who has passed.

ELITE
|P A G E 6 I Is ss su ue e 1 12 2- October 2019