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ELITE STAND UP AGAINST BULLYING & VIOLENCE #No_Bullying

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How was your relationship with your professors? And And our relationship with the professors was a beautiful one b r e
What are your most memorable situations?On the occasion especially the pedagogical part was interestingly influential, b y
of this, I remember a funny and interesting anecdote about and we've received a lot of advice from them over the years c g
joining the State Department: I was the sixth of the top 10 in and it has left its impact on us . Especially the Faculty’s n i d
my political science class, and there were the top 10 in the Dean/ Dr. Zaki Shafi and D. Owda who always had objective u l
economics department. Dean of that time /Dr. Mohammad Zaki perspectives , and certainly Dr. Boutros Ghali, from whom I c n i
Shafyy was with the group of senior professors such as D. learned how to separate and define subjects and not to overlap l o
Boutros Boutros Ghali and D. Ahmed Sowelam, and they were them. In addition to, Dr. Saeed Al-Najjar, who had the most o h
the principal supervisors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ smooth teaching methods and finally a professor whom I'd c s
entrance examinations, since the Faculty was once the first rather not mention the name, and he was questioning our t a
political institute. Then, They suggested to the Ministry that they access to the State Department, joking that we wouldn't rise g n
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could accept the top 20 in the State Department instead of re- above the Ministry's "guard" level, but I learned from him to y l
taking the examination with the same content that they had speak flawless classic Arabic. l u b
already studied and passed from college, given that the d n
diplomatic examinations were directly related to our studies in For Egypt, How would you assess its current relationship a e
our four years of education. When I arrived with my colleagues with the world? What are its most important challenges and c n
to pick up the job, two colleagues only were accepted with the opportunities? e l
requirement to go through an interview by an Agent working When we travelled abroad, Egypt was the one who represented o i v
there. So, we went the second day to the office of the Under- us before the world, not the other way around. In view of t s
Secretary-General, who asked us to leave, but we objected Egypt's rich status, it is particularly well known for its ancient n i a
because the request for our hiring came from the Ministry, not civilization throughout the world. Our mission was to represent g a
the other way around. We acted upon it and submitted a paper to Egypt in terms of not allowing anyone to “insult” it and to y a
protest, which led us to be hired as researchers in the Ministry defend the State’s policy, even if we didn’t completely agree d l
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but we, still, took the exam for them to assess our proven with it. Our diplomatic work requires putting aside all a n
competence, and 15 of us passed. And that was my story when I differences and paying attention to presenting and representing o i t
started working in the State Department. whichever the policy of State in any given era. a n
Also, the importance of our two-year study at the Diplomatic Emphasizing the importance of studying Egypt's present stage r e
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Institute has been determined, where we were taught by our old or any given stage, I remember when I was in Chile, I was t n I
teachers at the Faculty and re-studied its content. As a result, We asked by the chairman of the “Masriim” Group to cooperate e h
must not deny the contribution of the nature of teaching, and teach lectures on Egypt at that time. I have gladly accepted t g
especially the scientific research curriculum of the faculty, to the the requirement to speak about that era AND the present one n i t
distinction of my colleagues and I, which has contributed to our because of its importance and the importance of its knowledge. a r
acquisition of analytical skills and the ability to behave and to be As for the opportunities and challenges facing now, my b e l
prepared to deal with different situations while not relying only personal opinion is that the most important challenge is the e C
on theoretical studies only but continuing with research and need to create a climate to attract investment, which is already *
more and more studies. supported by the presence of large investment opportunities and
very acceptable infrastructure, but the climate remains
inadequate. And that's the biggest challenge now.

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