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Theme: Back & Forth

This event occurred on
August 28, 2015
8:00am - 7:00pm EET
(UTC +2hrs)
Cairo, Al Qāhirah
Egypt

Take a walk; observe life. You start to grasp the simplest of motions around you and the most complicated of them. You see everything endlessly and constantly changing around you, it confuses you.

The fact is: our lives are filled with ever-shifting forces that cause continuous motion, an infinite loop, going Back & Forth and Back & Forth. The same motion is what revolutionised our lives.

-What we were raised to believe is right, turned out to be what is holding us back, and facts turned out to be opinions.
-Industry of the past is the danger of now.
-Alternative therapy is the new conventional.
-Do we debate to reach a conclusion or for the sake of the debate?
-Economies endure refreshing peaks and disastrous troughs.
-Do laws stop crimes? Or are they causing them?
-Are revolutions the cause or the effect?
-History and Future are meeting.
-Mistakes of the past are the ones we are currently doing.
-Our waste is becoming our poison.
-Do movies reflect our reality? Or do they cause it?
-In a secular community, how are morals formed?
-Paradigm shifts, through ideology changes, or through different angels of a lens?

Police academy, main conferences hall
Police academy off ring road
Cairo, Al Qāhirah, 11835
Egypt
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Ahmed Al-Kady

Ahmed Al-Kady's diverse interests in reading, music, international politics and, most importantly, debating has allowed him to delve into several experiences that shaped his outlook. In 2013, he served as a Secretariat in the German University in Cairo Model United Nations and participated in The European International Model United Nations where he received the "Outstanding Delegate" award for his council. In 2014, alongside other brilliant individuals, he founded the first World's Style Debate Club in Egypt and North-Africa, "The Intelligent Question," and has been a member of the Board of Adjudicators for 2 years. Kady has also headed a delegation that participated in the World International Model United Nations in New York.

Ali Aboulnasr

Ali earned his Bachelor’s degree in Sport and Management from the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland. He earned his early touches football coaching badges and became a licensed coach for Under 15s. He also went to coach with the Mcdonald’s grass-roots coaching program under Eric Harrison, the most famous Manchester United youth coach. He also organized sports events at University and in Egypt after. Ali played semi-professional football for Cowdenbeath FC for 3 months before getting injured and quitting football which gives him a feel of what it is like to have a dream of becoming a footballer but not being able to achieve it and that is why he got the idea of creating a community scheme in Egypt to help others achieve their dream who would not be able to do it themselves.

Mohamed El Zayat

Dr. Mohamed El Zayat holds a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from Cairo University and a Master's Degree in Environmental engineering from the American University in Cairo. He has also earned his Ph.D. with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from the American University in Cairo. Dr. Zayat participated in several projects in the Middle East region including environmental impact assessment, clean development mechanism, and energy efficiency in various sectors and industries

Mohamed Rizkallah

born in october 11, 1986. he graduated with a bachelor in physics. master’s in international comparative education, specialized in policy and planning. PHD in STEM education, university of Minnesota. he works as an instructor in the Professional Educator's Diploma, and in the Core Curriculum department at the American University in Cairo. also as a freelance consultant with several NGO’s and educational initiatives.

Shaymaa Qadry

Shaymaa Qadry is the founder and managing director of GISR Institution for Survey Research. Before founding GISR, she has been the deputy manager of the Public Opinion Poll Center of the Egyptian Cabinet. She holds a Masters degree in Euro-Mediterranean studies. . She is also a free lance instructor teaching project management and survey research methodologies. She has been one of the founders of an NGO called Waseela for Training and Development, an Egyptian NGO concerned with youth development.

Sue Ellen Hassouna

Sue Ellen is the Legal Affairs Manager of Total Oil and Gas Egypt; she has served as a Legal Counselor in sundry prominent international and regional sectors along with her profession. Her practice involves a wide range of laws and her primary focus is Business Law and Dispute Settlement.Sue Ellen is a law school graduate from both Ain Shames University and Jean Moulin University, France. Post-graduation she moved to Paris for a year where she obtained her Legal Diploma in Research Methodologies from Jean Moulin University Lyon III. Sue Ellen holds a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) in International and Comparative Law from the American University in Cairo with High Honors and registered in the PhD program in Leicester University, UK.

Wael Habib

Dr. Wael Habib, M.D., D.C., is a specialist in Musculoskeletal Medicine / Spine and Sports Medicine / Chiropractic Medicine. A member of the ACA (American Chiropractic Association), NASS (North American Spine Society) and is the Sports Medicine Physician of some of the World's Number One Ranking Athletes, but most of all, considered to be a trend setter with his choices of unconventional treatment approaches to Spine and Sports Medicine.

Waheed Morsy

Waheed is currently running several projects on a personal level for the manufacture of telescopes in various qualities ranging from educational telescopes for beginners and even advanced telescopes. Through these projects, he is trying to spread this hobby among young generations through group meetings, and through organizing training courses and workshops for the various ages and Educational levels, to learn about the telescope and its components, how to use it optimally in the monitoring, and how a beginner could make his telescope himself with the simplest of potential ingredients, or provide guidance for how to get it.

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