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Prof.Dr. Gouda Abdelkhalek , former Minister of
Social Solidarity in an Interview with ELITE

We Suggested an Alternative to

IMF Program but Government

Favoured Westerners

Cairo: Caroline Sherief, Pakinam Fekry, Farah Ezzeldin and
Mariam Hefny
In the faculty of economics and political science, Elite team
conducted an interview with Dr. Gouda Abdel-khalek - Former
Minister of Social Solidarity-. At the beginning, he was welcomed
then we asked him about the reasons beyond choosing the faculty
of economics and political science. Dr. Gouda told us that he didn’t
actually choose the faculty as he wanted to major in the English
literature since he had a passion for the English novels, however,
when the high school results had emerged, he was the second top
student to the republic. In addition, the year 1960 was the first year
for the faculty of economics and political science which was the
same year he graduated from high school besides he likes the
politics since his childhood, hence he joined the faculty of
economics and political science. Also, Dr. Gouda added that he is
proud of his professors as Dr. Zaki Shafeii, Boutros Boutros Ghali,
and Refaat Al-Mahgoub and the atmosphere of the faculty was
harmonic even if there was a huge diversity. Dr. Gouda elaborated
that being majored in economics wasn’t his irst preference as he
wanted originally to major in political science, then he enrolled in
the major of statistics, but at the end he enrolled in the economics
major. He said that the conclusion from this experience is the idea
of diversity, choosing from distinctive fields, and what suits the
person’s capabilities. Dr. Gouda said that he never forget about his
first passion, so he used to manage his time between the economics
and the English literature.

Then Dr. Gouda told us one of the stories during his Period of study at
Our editors from left : the faculty, as when he was in the faculty Dr. Zaki Shafeii called him
and advised him not to play boxing anymore since it can affect his
Pakinam fekry, Carolin mind, thus Abdelkhlek left the boxing and joined the Rowing team at

Sherief and Farah the faculty during the 4 years of his study. This situation was an
example for the direct communication between the professors and
Ezzeldin the students. He added that the class was about 150 students, also
the Muslims and Christians were indifferent and nobody knows the

religion of the others. Abdelkhalek elaborated that the internet
made a huge upgrades in the society some are positive while some of
them are negative. He added that he always like teaching besides he
finds that teaching is a message not just a job.

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