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ELITE Vol.1 No.25, Nov. 2020

Meeting (Mina Onci) Founder of The Francophone

Youth Inititaive at Bibliotheca Alexandrina

content that might be displayed in any event, regardless of its
edited and written by: duration from the one-day event to the three-month event. The
Mirna Ossama second one consists of two units that are put together which are
human resources and capacity building, as human resources are
____________ concerned with skills and capabilities, in the first place. The
coordinated by: third one is concerned with organization and logistics, the
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Jozeph George fourth is the public relations unit, and finally, the fifth unit
____ concerned with media and marketing, for those interested in
media
starting
advertising
and
and
design
from
photography
and so on. Thus, the unit head is responsible for appointing
committee chairs in each of the five existing committees. The
Alexandria: Mirna Ossama
work team was trained at a time when they were examining the
proposed ideas and selecting the appropriate ones to achieve
The month of November witnesses an interview in which we
meet Mina Onci, founder and former president of the the set visions and required standards.
Francophone Youth Initiative at the Library of Alexandria, in
its first season, until it was led, in its second season, by the Let ’s start with the first event that was held at the French
Institute in September 2017 under the name of "Debater",
General Coordinator Amr Atiq.
In the beginning, the idea was a youth initiative that they which aimed to work on the skill of debate or the dialogue, in
established in March 2017 when the initiative was launched, general. The event included French and English speakers,
but they have been working on its idea since mid-2016. The which ended with a competition in which the two groups were
vision and goal of the initiative was, first, to focus on building separated, with the contestants from each group having debates
the Francophone person, especially French school students, but between them, each group in its own language, and ended with
it was not limited to them, but was available to all French the win of "Saint Jean-Antide" from the French speaking
speakers, in addition to breaking the barriers between different schools group and the "Saint Franciscan Ibrahimia" school
communities such as the French community and those of other from English speaking group.
languages, since the Francophone community is very closed. Then comes the "Leader" event, which was held at the "Notre
The beginning, in its first season, was the formation of a team Dame de Sion" school in Alexandria in October 2017, with the
aim of working on the leadership skill, and ended with a
divided into five committees or central units; the first one was
the academic committee which is concerned with the academic competition in which the Second World War was simulated;
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