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Vol.1 Issue 61 November 2023 ELITE

1-After a rich six-year journey in the deanship of FEPS, and
among your many achievements, what ones do you consider to have
the greatest effect on you, and what are the ambitions that you
wanted to achieve but did not have enough time for?

More precisely, it is a journey of five and a half years. During
this period, my principle for this faculty, which was managed by
great academic figures with their own imprints and achievements,
was my consideration of the necessity of completing their
achievements and not demolishing what they had done and
acting like I built everything we have achieved from scratch,
because these are qualities of a failed administrator, so I
completed building what was founded by Dr. Hala Al-Said. For
example, Dr. Hala laid the foundation for the faculty’s journal in
English, and then completed it with the editorial board of the It is worth noting that it is an academic master’s degree and
journal led by Prof. Dr. Heba Nassar and also with Dr. Rami not a professional one. It results in an academic thesis for
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Magdy, whom I am very proud of, Dr. Pakinam Fikri, Ms. each participant and an academic contribution. There are
Mona Nasr, and the rest of the editorial board, until we reached other interprofessional programs, such as the program with
the journal as being the first social sciences journal with an the Institute of Security and Intelligence Sciences affiliated
international publisher in the Middle East region, then its entry with the Military Intelligence Authority and also the Nasser
into the Scopus and Clarivate Analytics rankings, an Military Academy (currently the Higher Military Academy),
unprecedented achievement and what I consider to be one of the and all of these programs reflect the position of the Faculty
most important and best achievements during my deanship. That of Economics and Political Science in serving society and in
is, the faculty’s scientific journal reaches the ranks of qualifying state institutions from a scientific standpoint.
international journals found in the most important classifications
mentioned above, especially since Cairo University rewards There was another program that I wanted to offer in
researchers who publish in the faculty’s journal with cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was
international publishing rewards, and this has a great impact on an Academic Master in Diplomatic Studies, but it was not
me. In addition to many other achievements, for example, the completed due to many different procedures and delays.
establishment of important inter-professional programs such as Finally, there is another program with the Military
the “Master’s in Political Economy” program, from which we Academy that will be useful to the military units, and
have graduated three batches so far, and which was very much in therefore, given the importance of the political and
demand because we were working on isolated peninsulas: economic dimensions in the work of the Egyptian officer,
economists working in isolation from political scientists and vice such a program is supposed to lead to improving the
versa. True, but the field of political economy is an important efficiency of his work because most military conflicts have
field, yet we did not find people specialized in this field. There an economic or political origin, and therefore this program
was a political economy program at the American University in with the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, it is
Cairo, and I believed that our faculty was deserving of such a supposed to contribute to preparing officers to have a
program. greater understanding of those dimensions. It is worth
noting that the certificate granted by the program will be a
As a result, we also set out to create interface programs with state military certificate granted by the Minister of Defense and
institutions, and it represented one of the most important not by the faculty or Cairo University. It is important to
achievements that others considered one of my most important note that this is one of the faculty’s roles in its contribution
ones because it contributed greatly to qualifying workers in these to building society.
institutions to be better at performing their work. For example,
we established a program in governance and anti-corruption in
cooperation with the National Academy for Governance and
Anti-Corruption. This program met with great success and
tremendous influence with state leaders in the public and private
sectors and those concerned with the field of governance and
anti-corruption. It is a unique program and does not exist in
other Egyptian universities, not even the American University or
private universities. It qualifies these leaders in many important
fields because it is an interdisciplinary program between three
basic branches: economics, law and public administration, and it
links them until it generates a research or scientific product
specific to the idea of governance and anti-corruption. This gives
leaders the opportunity to acquire knowledge and knowledge
regarding governance and combating corruption in their field of
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