I was the first woman to graduate with a PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California Berkeley.” - Kawthar Zaki

I came from a large family of 4 sisters and 2 brothers. We lived in Cairo and my father was a civil servant and an actor and my mother was a homemaker. My father believed that the place for women is home to raise children. He did not believe that a girl’s education is important

I was lucky to have a very supportive husband who saw our home life as his responsibility just as much as mine.

The first time I went to the classroom, many students waled out. They thought they were in the wrong class. I wrote the title of the course on the board, and they came back.