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Three years of passion...
ELITE Three years of passion...

Birth of a Princess

Prof. Hanan M. Aly, Vice dean for Education and Students' affairs, ELITE
Prof. Hanan M. Aly, Vice dean for Education and Students' affairs, ELITE
Board member and General Supervisor
Board member and General Supervisor

*Translated by: Rana Doss, L3, Economics their problems, draw their dreams, and disclose situations they met,
visits they made, and conversations they completed.
It is one of the ancient and well-known kingdoms, whose people are Here the retinue gathered to discuss the matter as this had never
famous for their abundance of knowledge, eloquent talk, great happened to any prince born in the palace before; how would they
literature and elegant dress. Knowledge seekers reach to it from organize all these numbers coming to the palace while allocating
everywhere to learn and acquire their qualities. The affairs of this sufficient time for each visitor. Suggestions abounded, some appealed
kingdom are run in a beautiful white palace surrounded by green to the retinue and others didn’t, until one of the alert young men
trees, adding to it splendor and majesty. Orange roses are planted said, “Let the princess’s visitors attend once a month on the first
in the palace garden, on which the sun’s rays fall at its rising Thursday of every month, and through an invitation directed to a
making it resemble a golden carpet so beautiful to look at. Until the specific number of visitors that varies from month to month, and the
sun is out of sight. scribes would document what happens during these meetings.”
Everyone liked the idea.
On one of the long autumn nights, after the seekers of knowledge Preparations began inside the palace for the big event, which is the
had left and the palace closed its doors, and while the cold breeze monthly meeting with Her Highness the Princess. The palace was
filled the air and the trees trembled gently, causing a quiet rustle, a decorated, the seats were prepared for visitors and for the princess.
little rain fell from the sky, heralding a good thing to come. People The most delicious food was prepared, the most beautiful clothes
come and leave, and everyone wonders what is happening, time has were sewed for the princess, and the invitations were sent. The guests
passed rapidly until the matter is clarified. Here the good news started their conversations, the little princess was smiling, and the
scribes wrote down everything that was said.
appeared... It was the birth of a beautiful princess in the palace, The monthly meetings were repeated, and the news spread in the
who was named after one of the characteristics of the inhabitants Kingdom, the visitors increased and the those who were distant
of the kingdom. longed for a visit. As the days passed, the little princess grew up and
On the morning of the next day, the messangers set out to became good at talking, started to repeat what she heard, asking and
announce the happy news throughout the kingdom. People were answering the invitees, and she mastered three languages and
optimistic, they began to flock to the palace to congratulate the became quite famous.
smiling new-born, with the wide hazel eyes, long dark hair and There she is our princess, the princess of the Faculty of Economics
beautiful familiar face. Days passed, and the number of and Political Science, Cairo University, "Elite Magazine" completing
congratulators increased, until the palace was unable to its third year after holding thirty-six monthly meetings with the
accommodate all these numbers coming from the Kingdom and faculty's professors, graduates and students, whose contributions
from outside the Kingdom as well. Their purpose was not only to diversified to include the fields of economics, political science,
congratulate, but rather to reveal what was raging in their hearts statistics, public administration, social computing, literature,
as they looked at the princess's angelic face, which gives philosophy, and more.
reassurance, and urges them to narrate Happy Birthday to Elite, to many more years to come full of
different meetings, discussions and fields.

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