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Our Editors (from left): Dina Ehab, Ramy Magdy and Omar Alaa

His Excellency Ambassador Hany Khallaf, for mer Deput y Mini ster for For eign Affairs for Arab Affairs, in
an interview with ELITE
The Arab League must provide a bridge for dialogue with Iran
and Turkey, and everything that is Islamic must not be
demonized

Cairo : Ramy Magdy, Dina Ehab, Omarl Alaa and Mirna Ossama,
When I was in high school they used to call me the ambassador. I
Revised by Jasmine Nabil
knew that my career would eventually lead me to the foreign affairs,
With utmost hospitalty, we were met by Ambassador Hani Khallaf,
because there are numerous role models and ambassadors in our
former Assistant Minster of Foreign Affairs for Arab affairs, at his
family; such as my father Abdel Moneim Khallaf who was from the
house. Touching upon the personal and human sides in the
first generation who founded the Arab League, along side Azam
ambassador's life in the meeting, we spoke about his upbringing and
Pasha. He eventually became the Director of Social and Labor affairs
education - being a descendant of a renowned family who are
department. Therfore, I loved the diplomatic career because of the
practiced in diplomatic work-, and passing through his studies in our
examples of diplomats and first generation founders with whom I
college. It was an immense pleasure to meet the one of the Faculty's
engaged while I was young, it is from this that I was filled with my
very first graduates, and to get acquainted with the atmosphere
love for work in the Arab and international areas.
during the faculty's early years and its journey to become one of the

most established faculties in Egypt. We then turned to his career and
Moreover, I was studying literature and Arts and did not find myself
how he joined the diplomatic corps, at the end, we concluded our
in the natural sciences and mathematics. I found my strength in the
dialogue with a comprehensive review of the regional a rena.
language I possessed, whether Arabic or English n addition to the

diplomatic skills that my father cultivated in me.
We viewed his rich library, stacked with books; for which he was

reader in part and author in others, most prominently we saw "Osama
• In your opinion, how does the college affect the personality of its
El-Baz -A Life's March", and "The Handwriting of Celebrities",
students?
which is considered manuscripts and documents for the celebrities
Not all students benefit from what the college gives, only those
with whom the ambassador dealt.
students who are serious about it. The advantage of being a political
From piano and chess, getting 20/20 in Prof. Hamed Rabiea's course,
science graduate, is that the college affects the student's
sharing roles and reforming the Arab League, to a delicate
communication skills teaching them how to settle disputes between
combination of pride in cultural heritage balanced with rational
people. It develops their ability to deal with the conflicts that
engagement with the requirements of the times. It was a really
surround them on the social, familial and political levels, as well as
valuable dialogue with a man that combines a comprehensive
how to deal with the history, the future, what is possible and what is
theoretical vision and practical knowledge of the wheels of
impossible.
diplomatic work.

Following is the transcript of the interview....... • How was your relationship with the professors in college?
• How did your relationship with the Faculty of Economics and I had a good relationship with many professors such as Ibrahim Saqr,
Political Science start and why did you choose i t? Rifaat Al-Mahjoub and Fathallah al-Khatib, Samaan Boutros
The Faculty of Economics and Political Science was newly
FaragAllah, all of whom are professors I cherish. I am proud to be a
established, as such, I found in it an opportunity to prepare myself to
student of Hamed Rabi` and I was the first student to get a 20/20 full
join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moreover, during the first two
mark in his subject, I thought at first that he gave me 10/20, because
years, the lectures were held at Faculty of Law in which my
grandfather, Abdul Wahab Khallaf, was a professor o f Sharia.
he would not normally give full marks to students.

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