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 bo… - 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 the first woman to graduate with a PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California Berkeley.”

My father had hoped for my brothers to become engineers, but I was the one who did in the end. My mother, having raised 7 kids without any help, was very supportive of me