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Vol.1 Issue 63 January 2024Vol.1 Issue 63, May 2024 ELITE

Professor Hanan Abu Sekin - Head of Department of Public Opinion

Research and Measurements at the National Center for Social and
Criminal Research

Jasmin Nabil, Youssef Mousa, Kenzy Tamer, Translation: Sara Basheer

As we continue to to hold fruitful 1. How did your relationship with FEPS
interviews with significant figures in their start? And why did you specially choose to
fields, we introduce you to this issue’s join it?
figure. Professor Hanan Abu Sekin who
won the State Encouragement Award, is First of all, I am not originally from Cairo,
loving for her faculty and job, and is very and there was not a Faculty of Economics
keen to always seek for progress. She and Political Science other than the one in

represents the best example for the woman Cairo, so the geographic factor is one of
who is ambitious to accomplish all of those the main reasons why I chose to study at
achievements in a very short time. FEPS. Whenever I watched the televesion,
I used to always spot distinguished figures
She obtained her bachelor’s, master’s, and who are FEPS graduates, so I used to

PhD degrees from the Faculty of believe that the are actually the elite, and
Economics and Political Science at Cairo that all the unique individuals in our
University. That is why she is deeply society are those who graduated from
grateful to the faculty. In addition, she is a FEPS.
member of the Executive Committee of the
Arab Association for Political Science, a Since I was a student in the science section,
member of the Political Science Committee I was about to join the Faculty of

of the Supreme Council of Culture, and Pharmacy, but I couldn’t make it because
finally, she is a member of the Training of my grade, so I decided to join FEPS. I
Committee of the National Council for got into the FEPS in 2000, back then, I did
Women. not have enough information about the
faculty. Also, my parents used to be
against travelling, as they used to believe

that it is not that easy, however, I was
persistent to join FEPS.

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