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issue 17
March 2020
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"Our general approach to the Renaissance Dam issue is to
choose a peaceful solution"

H E R E X C E L L E N C Y A M B A S S A D O R S O U A D S H A L A B Y A N D P R O F E S S O R D R . M O S T A F A
A B D E L A Z I Z F A H M Y I N A N E X C L U S I V E I N T E R V I E W W I T H T H E E L I T E

● How did your relationship with the faculty begin, and why did you
Cairo : Carolin Sherief, Mostafa Sayyed, Mohamed Abdelazim,
choose to study there?
Omar Alaa, Nagham Youssef et Sherry Asaad
- Ambassador Soaad Shalaby: Ever since I was a child, I was passionate

about representing my country so I helped out foreigners and learnt
We were thrilled to meet, her Excellency, Ambassador Soaad
foreign languages, and that is when I developed this interest in
Shalaby and Dr. Mostafa Abdel Aziz and to see them remember
diplomacy and I was overjoyed when my high school diploma results
their days at the faculty where the memories that they recalled
came out, and I knew I could join the faculty that I ’ve always dreamed
showed their immense love for the faculty, remembering their
to join and that I was fortunate in the career that I love which is the
professors, the old faculty building at the faculty of Law and the
diplomatic corp.
Cafeteria where they used to sit.
- Dr. Mostafa: I was in the Science section and could ’ve joined

Faculty of Medicine but I refused as a I loved President Nasser so much
They owed the solidarity between all the faculty students to their
and my overwhelming desire to serve my country led to apply for
mutual desire to join the faculty as they were all top achievers in
joining the army but I was rejected because of medical reasons, and so I
high school, they attributed the reason as to why they chose this
decided to serve my country through participating in the economic
faculty to its modernity and to the direction at the time to the
development, that is why I joined the faculty.
economic development process and their ambition to be participate
● Upon asking Amb. Soaad Shalaby about her choice to study
in this process, as part of their patriotism and their love for Egypt.
Economics and how it impacted her personality, she replied saying the
This love is the result of the 4 wars that this generation went
following?
through from 1948, 1956, 1967 and finally 1973.
- I joined the economic section as I felt that it is an approachable and

applicable science, I also felt that it is crucial for the future of Egypt and
This love and patriotism was reflected through their distinguished
the economic development process.
representation of Egypt abroad, and their consideration of
She then remembered the incidents that reminds her of the faculty
themselves as an image of Egypt to the world, where they affirmed
saying that the faculty was the base upon which she entered the foreign
the meanings of freedom at the time, and the solidarity of the class
affairs sector, whether it be during giving lectures abroad, or in her
during their protests and their cheers of: “Oh Nasser, patience has
work in the diplomatic corp, where the faculty had a great impact on the
limits, nine and the tenth won ’t return, ” and the government
vision she adopts, as the things that she learned along with her
responded to the demands of the youth and came up with solutions
experience is what formed her career, in addition to that, the youth
and understood that the time of war created uncertainty in the
community that mostly consisted of the faculty students had an impact
policy making process.
on her especially with their distinguished work in the society

development,
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