“Illuminations on the Egyptian Navy” a symposium at the Faculty of Archeology, Ain Shams University

Under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El- Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Ghada Farouk, Acting Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, and Prof. Dr. Hossam Tantawy, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Archeology and Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs, the Department of Environment and Community Service Projects at the Faculty of Archeology organized within its cultural program for the academic year 2022-2023 in cooperation with the Maritime Salon, and under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ahmed El-Shawki, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and supervisor of the sector Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Dr. Sawsan Issa, Supervisor of Environmental Projects Department, and Dr. Rasha Al-Moftesh, Director of the Department, and in the presence of a large number of male and female students, Faculty staff and Faculty's employees, a symposium entitled "Lights on the Egyptian Navy" in the context of the celebrations of the glorious October victories and the Egyptian Navy Day.

Captain Bahri Hisham Al-Nomani, one of the heroes of the October War, and the naval expert and chief guide in the Suez Canal, participated in the symposium with a lecture.

Prof. Dr. Hossam Tantawy, Acting Dean of the Faculty, started by welcoming the honorable guest, and then shed light on the role of the Egyptian Navy during the period between 67 and 73 and how it was the forces that emerged from the setback of 67 with zero losses, and therefore bore the burden of raising the morale of the Egyptian army and the general public in operations A quality that had the greatest impact on the rapid return of enthusiasm and the restoration of confidence, including, for example, the destruction of the destroyer Eilat, the destruction of the sea berth in the port of Eilat and the operations of Rumana and Balooza, and the talk extended to the role of the naval forces in the October victory and its securing of the Egyptian coasts and territorial waters before, during and after the war.

By transmitting the word to Captain Hisham Al-Nomani, His Excellency shed light on the reason for choosing October 21 of each year as a holiday for the Egyptian Navy, which coincides with the destruction of an Egyptian missile launcher for the Israeli destroyer Eilat in 67 in a battle that changed the strategies of the naval war.

He also mentioned some of the championships of the members of the Egyptian naval forces, then followed his Egyptian naval sovereignty since the times of the ancient Egyptians through six axes, including old ships and methods of their manufacture, the different ways of exchanging signals at sea, the relationship between the shape of ships and their function, and methods of fixing them ... and others.