under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President of Education and Student Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Mamdouh Eldamaty, Dean of the Faculty of Archeology, and the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hossam Tantawi, Vice Dean of Education and Student Affairs, and the implementation of Mr. Tamer Tharwat Al-Assal, Director of Student Welfare Department, and the organization of the Faculty Students’ Union, the Faculty of Archeology held a lecture entitled “Egyptian Civilization and its Global significance (Experience from France)” delivered by Dr. Gihan Mohamed Gado, member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Council of Egyptian Women.

Prof. Dr. Mamdouh Al-Damaty, Dean of the College, stated that this event comes within the framework of the development and implementation of training programs that the Faculty of Archeology is witnessing, including lectures and workshops, aimed at developing the skills of first-year students, broadening their awareness and openness to the outside, and transferring expertise to them.

Before the start of the lecture, Prof. Dr. Hossam Tantawi, Vice Dean of Education and Student Affairs, presented Dr. Gihan Gado to the audience and presenting a brief summary of her biography and her foreign activities as a member of foreign relations in the National Council for Women, the ambassador of citizenship and goodwill, her residency in France and her membership in the Board of Directors of the neighborhood house for the province of Versailles, and a member of the International Federation of the Francophone Press.

Dr. Gihan Gado began the lecture by thanking the university’s president, vice president for education and students, and the dean of the Faculty of Archeology for sponsoring such activities, given the importance of seminars, lectures and talking with university students in introducing the Egyptian identity, and being proud of our Egyptian civilization globally as a very important factor in consolidating patriotism and a sense of integration into the national identity.

This was followed by her presentation of the importance of studying archeology, after which she moved to the axis of the symposium, which is the value of Egyptian civilization globally, especially in France, and the French people's passion for Egyptology from the reality of living with this throughout their stay abroad.

The lecture was concluded by opening the discussion to the students, listening to them and answering their questions.