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Vol.1 Issue 61 November 2023 ELITE

A special interview with: Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Said
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CU Vice President and former FEPS Dean
Name - Level - Major - Email
Dr. Ramy MAGDY - Ms. Caroline Sherief- Rosanne El Fayed - Salma ELBukhary, Noor Khaled

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We start the sixth year of our magazine with an interview of an 2- Why did you choose the Stati
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exceptional person on both an academic and professional level how does it help in shaping personalities?
alongside their pivotal role in the journey of our magazine. My choice of the Department of Statistics was due to
Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Al Said, Vice President of Cairo University my scientific background before enrolling in university,
for postgraduate affairs and scientific research. He was our which was related to the department in terms of
Faculty’s - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Dean mathematics, etc., and therefore my scientific
for nearly six years and was the Vice Dean for Education and inclinations were the motivation behind my choice to
Students’ Affairs before that. He was also the first chairman of join this department. By studying precise numbers and
our magazine’s board of directors. He was ranked in the top 2% equations, how one thinks, changes to be more
of the World’s Best Scientists according to Stanford as he is a disciplined, and as a result you become disciplined in
distinguished statistician with lead research in the field of work, appointments, and others. I would like to add
quality control. He is an alumnus of FEPS and its loyal son and that statistic serves the rest of the existing sciences, so
has strong Egyptian roots and an Alexandrian identity. they depend on statistics and statistical reports in one
way or another, and even within the research work
1-In the beginning? How did your relationship start with Faculty itself, we find that it depends on data and access to the
of Economics and Political Science and why did you choose it? results of empirical analysis, for example. This gave me
There is a story behind choosing FEPS; when I was in my the opportunity to learn about the rest of these sciences
senior year of secondary school, I was in the “Mathematics and their principles, especially with regard to the
Section” and the direction of the students of that section was Faculty of Economics and Political Science, that is, the
always engineering and faculties that are mathematics related; principles of economics, political science, and public
my first choice was the Faculty of Engineering in Alexandria administration. Fortunately, I was in a department that
University, but with a consultation from a dear friend of mine was connected to the rest of the other departments.
in the “Literary Section,” he convinced me to write FEPS as my
second choice while ranking my choices, and I did take his
advice. I did not get accepted in the Faculty of Engineering,
missing it by half a mark. I was reluctant to join FEPS at first,
but I got attached to it on the first day. It has some kind of
magic about it, anyone who passed it in their lifetime, would
feel belonging to this institution. After the first year, I felt that
it was the right place for me, especially when I happened upon
the Statistics Department, which includes my favorite subjects
such as mathematics and others, which encouraged me to stay
and join the department.

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