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KAAD-Stipendiaten meet Angela Merkel
Each year, almost 200 German universities award a prize of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to their best foreign students in terms of academic merit and social commitment. 20 outstanding award-winners from all over the world were invited to a political and cultural program in Berlin and to a meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. We are very pleased, that this year two KAAD-Scholars were among the participants: Walid Abd El Gawad (Egypt) and Sidi Ould Estaghvirou (Mauretania).
Their story is documented in the DAAD-brochure “Ausgezeichnet” (“outstanding”/”awarded”).
KAAD-Alumni today
Ebtihal Abdel Kawi Shedid (Egypt)
It takes just a quick encounter with Ebtihal Abdel Kawi Shedid to feel that communication is her passion. Being a graduate in German Literature, a KAAD scholarship offered her the opportunity to start a formation as a professional interpreter in Germany. Just before the revolution in early 2011, she had returned back home. Her position as an editor of the bilingual online magazine "Transit" issued by the Goethe Institute in Cairo is now giving her the chance to add momentum to the discourse on the social and cultural transition of her country. "Transit" features articles, blogs and commentaries by "facebook generation" authors from all over the Middle East and North Africa.