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Vol.1 Issue 24, October 2020
ELITE
Fareeda Khalifa
The Most Senior Founding Editor

and Assistant Editor in Chief

ELITE : A Lesson for Richness

and Diversity

Two years, two rounds across the sun, a significant
It ’s been an honor for me to have been around
amount of time that ELITE has been around, but that ’s
since the very first day of ELITE, working on and
only the beginning. In the past year, ELITE rose to the
witnessing the launch of such a prestigious outlet.
ranks and reached things nobody expected. The
I started out as an editor who shared ideas, to
editing team grew, the outreach and scope of our wo rk
becoming the first assistant editor-in-chief, to
widened, the guests we had were more diversified,
giving a speech on behalf of all students in the fi rst
and the work we put in truly showed.
anniversary celebration.

The world witnessed many changes and challenges in
The role I have assumed in ELITE helped me out
2020, and so did we, but we used it all to make ELI TE
in many respects, it set me apart from many of my
a better entity and proved to ourselves and everyon e
counterparts, and it helped me gain a lot of
else how much we have to contribute. This year, we
experience. I worked with various people to
managed to expand and provide a French version of
perfect articles, sculpted my editing skills, worke d
ELITE, with a special team of editors who surprised
on graphics, and I interviewed professors and
us all with their talent. We also worked on getting
2018-2020
2018-2020 This added a lot to my skills and
students
alike.
more student input, and many students wrote for us
experience, which enabled me to be selected for a
about their different programs and experiences. We
public image internship right after graduation.
got a wide array of noteworthy public figures on th e
cover of our issues, and we also got them to write for
Having just graduated, the world seems very
us. These are just some of the highlights.
uncertain, but the one thing I know for sure is tha t
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting everyone
ELITE is a place that will keep on developing for
around the world, it also affected us, but it helpe d us
the better, and with the magnificent team behind it ,
expand our reach and use of different platforms. We
I have absolute faith in what the future holds. I
managed to hold discussions and aggregate opinions
know the coming years will be better and I hope
from students all over Egypt, and it also added ano ther
the team grows to provide more content and reach
layer of creativity. This was the product of the ha rd
out to more students. As a founding editor, it is
work of the whole board, the countless meetings we
extremely hard to say goodbye, but goodbyes are
have had, and the effort exerted by the editors to make
always bittersweet, and it is truly a pleasure to s ee
this vision come to life.
how far we have come.

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Vol.1 Issue 24, October 2020