Stanford Global Leadership Class Blogs to Egypt
Right now, students in the 11 am Global Leadership class are posting blogs on their analysis of six speeches by prominent Global Leaders. Each team has conducted an analysis - and learned how to apply the effective communication techniques of the leaders to the case studies they are pursuing for their research projects.
We look forward to comments and questions from Blog Readers across the world! We especially look forward to our collaboration with Professor Sanaa Makhlouf's class at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Please, read on, answer their questions, and ask some of your own!
Alyssa
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Hey all,
My name is Nada Elsayed. Im one of the students from Professor Sanaa Makhlouf's class in the American University in Cairo. The semester has come to an end yesterday and we were hoping to communicate with everyone in Dr. Alyssa's class however due to technical difficulties we werent able to set up a conference. It would have been nice to connect with your class since I havent had the chance to make it to the last conference.
Well, school's out and a sort of emptiness has settled in. I woke up this morning frightened thinking that i should be doing work until I was able to calm myself down, telling myself that school's out. Now that I have been alleviated from the pressure of school, I feel the NEED to be back in school.Is the quarter over back in stanford?
I had a question I wanted to ask your class:
How has communicating with our class in Egypt changed your perception of Egyptian students or of Egypt in general?
I know a lot of Americans (from experience having lived in the states for a year) base their perception of other cultures based on what is portrayed in the media. I also know that the media hasnt quite been our bestfriend in its portrayal of us in that the prevalent image has been of terrorism or an extremely religious population whose women are either veiled or covered up in the so-called "ninja turtle costume." I think we judge people based on appearances without attaching a mind or a mentality to them. That's why I was wondering if this class has changed your perception of Egyptian students at all?
Anxiously waiting on a reply!
Nada Elsayed
Posted by: Nada Elsayed | May 29, 2009 07:56 AM