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issue 17
March 2020
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Celebrating The Golden Jubilee II of

Class 1969

Cairo: Nermeen Tawfik -Translated by: Mariam Hefny
1969 ,and a university professor in England, he tha nked the dean of the
faculty, gentlemen and the vice deans for the honor ing party that
confirms the college ’s interest in its graduates, describing the party a s
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Saeed, Dean of the Faculty presented a tribute to the
an exceptional one, as he evoked the beautiful memo ries with his
graduates of 1969 celebrating the golden jubilee of this exceptional class, in
colleagues that they all missed, and he added that the selection of the
a ceremony held by the faculty to honor them, descr ibing the class as an
Room of Dr. Zaki El-Shafi ’ as a place for the party has a great
outstanding one.
significance, because he was the first dean of the Faculty of Economics

and Political Science. He emphasized that the facul ty has added a lot to
him, its where he learned principles and ethics. He also added that the
He added that the class of 1969 is long talked abou t, as it is a class that
graduates of 1969 received prestigious positions in side and outside
includes a group of distinguished pioneers of the f aculty, such as Dr.
Egypt.
Ahmed Youssef, Dr. Mona ElBaradei and Dr. Kamal Al- Menoufy and Dr.

Thanaa El-Gayyar and other stature and cadres in th e field of diplomacy,
And about the difference between the labor market a t the time of his
economics and media.
graduation and nowadays, he said that the job oppor tunities were better
for them, because the college was still emerging an d the number of
Dr. said Mona ElBaradei, professor at the Departmen t of Economics,
graduates was not more than 150; so the job opportu nities for faculty
former dean of the faculty, and one of the graduate s of 1969, in statements
graduates were many, but now the matter is differen t and the job
to “Elite ” magazine, said that she was very happy to be honor ed by the
opportunities are less. So, he advised the students to develop
faculty as a graduate of the class of 69, explainin g that they have
themselves and develop their skills, stressing on t he need to master
maintained their communication for years, especiall y since their number
foreign languages, and to have a broad view of thin gs, as well as not to
was little compared to the number of graduates nowa days.
limit themselves to the local market only, but rath er to search for global
job opportunities by communicating with internation al and regional
She advised students to maintain their communicatio n with each other after
organizations, as well as multinational companies.
graduation, and develop their skills in light of th e competition that exists

nowadays with foreign universities and the various language departments
As for Dr. Adel Tawfiq, who is one of the graduates of the 1969 batch,
within universities, in addition to practice extern al reading and not to stick
and who held the position of undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance,
only to the academic courses, so that they can find a suitable job
he talked about the way in which they were able to maintain their
communication throughout the past years, indicating that the
opportunity.
development of technology and communications has he lped them to do

this through Facebook and WhatsApp, calling on the new graduates to
As for Dr. Mustafa Abdel-Razik, who is also one of the graduates of
maintain their communication with each other and al so with the faculty,
thanking on behalf of himself and of all of his col leagues for the faculty
and its administrations for the honoring party.

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