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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 30, April 2021 Happy

Ramadan

Prof.Heba Nassar, ELITE Guest
Developmental projects are tangible realities yet we

need equal investment in the human capital

Cairo: Carolin Sherief, Anthony Ayman, translated to English by Nadeen Hesham

Our Faculty is distinguished by a bright group of professors who interaction; many of our professors were renowned such as Dr
have excelled in various ways in the academic and administrative Hanaa and Dr Amr Mohy El-Deen with whom we had good
spheres. That is why Elite Magazine is proud to host Professor and kind relations, as we did amongst ourselves as students.
Dr. Heba Nassar - Editor-in-Chief of the two scientific We were only 45 students; so, we felt distinguished in the
magazines of FEPS, former Vice President of the University for University.
Community Service and who has been recently selected among
the 50 most influential Egyptian women according to the My background was in the arts section at school and when I
classification of Amwal Elghad magazine - and in this issue, we entered the Faculty, we had to choose between law and math.
publish the interview that took place between her and the editors I chose law but I didn’t understand anything and politics was
of ELITE. boring. I found economics logical and this led me to choose
math over law, which was a tragedy because we hadn’t
First of all, you’ve had a rich journey with the Faculty of studied math in the arts section. I thus went to my uncle Dr
Economics and Political Science; how did your relationship Adel Ashour – may Allah’s mercy be upon him – who was
with the Faculty begin and why did you choose it? d its
very patient with me and I found myself enjoying math an
steps. At the end of the year, I was surprised to find out that I
Honestly, I made the decision based on my score: 94%. I was had gotten a perfect score on my final exam and an excellent
ranked fourth nationwide and it was the first time that students in grade in economics, compared to a good in politics; so, I
the arts section had gotten scores beyond 90%. I had gone to a chose to major in economics.
German school and I wanted to join the German department at Things started to change when I was appointed as a teaching
the Faculty of Arts, but everyone warned me against “wasting assistant. The Faculty allowed us to start teaching as soon as
my score” and advised me to join FEPS. I was very happy, we graduated; so, we taught for our friends in their first years
though, with this choice because 10 of my classmates had joined at the Faculty and we knew each other since we were small in
me and I was looking forward to learning new things other than number. We then began taking further steps into the academic
the German language. FEPS had its own kind of environment in field, but it wasn’t an easy period; after earning my master’s
terms of work and degree, I travelled to Germany to obtain my PhD while

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