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Our Student Founding Editors Celebrate 2

ELITE first batch undergraduate editors narrate their experiences with ELITE

Abdelrahman Elhadidi Fareeda Khalifa

"Ambition, commitment and integration" One full year has passed since the

Those are the values which editors of Elite magazine and FEPS establishment of ELITE, and it has truly been
website share. Passion led us to develop our performance in work a year full of new experiences and discoveries
beyond expectations. Elite magazine is considered a platform for for the newsletter and for me as an editor.
students to express their views in various economic, political,
social and artistic aspects. I was one of those students who firstly From the very beginning, I joined to learn
shared their views on the above topics, . more and be more involved in my faculty, but
throughout this year, I have challenged myself
I conducted two interviews with two former ministers.The first
was Minister and MP Mohamed El-Orabi. This interview was held and overtaken many tasks that I never
at the Nile Ritz Carlton Hotel. His interview was very beneficial thought I could.
and full of the experience of His Excellency, whether as Egypt's
ambassador to Germany or as a former foreign affairs minister and I started my journey as an editor and a
finally as a member of parliament.The second interview was held translator, but as time went by, I excelled and
at the National Institute of Planning with the former minister of rose to be the assistant editor in chief. This
Planning, Dr. Osman Mohammed Osman, and we enjoyed his great
analytical ability to describe the current Egyptian economic has been an amazing learning experience, I
situation and provide solutions to the current crises and how to read articles that I never thought would
address them. Last but not least, joining Elite magazine is the best interest me, I have worked within a bigger
event happened to me since joining Faculty of Economics and framework, and I even went out of my
Political Science. This is why I especially thank the college's
management for supporting the magazine since its foundation. comfort zone and published one of my poems.
Also, I would like to pay tribute to Dr. Ramy Magdy, the editor-in- ELITE has given me a unique chance and I
chief of the magazine, for his constant support to me and my am ready to take on any new challenges and
colleagues and his great efforts to improve the level of work work for a better FEPS and a better me.
professionally in the magazine.In conclusion, I advise college
students to join this great entity in order to see how much benefit
they will receive.

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