The Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, represented by the community service and environmental development sector, hosted a number of events organized by Anti-Violence and Harassment against Women Unit during the Women’s Month (March every year) under the patronage of Prof.Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University and Prof. Dr. Hisham Temraz, Vice President of the University of community service affairs and environmental development, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Mortada, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Prof. Dr. Rasha Al-Didi, Vice Dean of Community Service and Environmental Development, and Supervision and organization of Dr. Hind Al Hilali, Director of the Unit of Anti-Violence and Harassment against Women Unit at the University.
The ceremony dealt with a number of activities, including a symposium: “The Future of the Mother of 2030” in the faculty’s conference hall, which was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Hisham Temraz, Vice President of Community Service and Environmental Development, and included discussion of the challenges facing women and how the Egyptian political leadership, represented by Mr. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, support women and support their empowerment to take great steps towards success and empowerment through the 2030 strategy. Dr. Saboura Al-Sayed, Member of the Egyptian Parliament, Mrs. Maysa Ahmed Atwa, member of the workforce in the House of Representatives and head of the Stat and Youth Block Against Harassment in the National Council of Women, and Ambassador Thanaa Zayed, Goodwill Ambassador of Egyptian Workers Arabs and a member of the National Council for Women gave lectures in the seminar.
Prof. Dr. Hind Al-Hilali, Unit Director, addressed strategies of empowering women from political leadership, which are included in the state's 2030 plan.
The symposium was preceded by a workshop for students that included developing students 'skills to spread students' awareness of ways to complain, respond and seek help in case of harassment outside the university walls through the National Council for Women’s brochures and flyers, in addition to explaining the communication skills that enable them to use the means of rejecting this violence, as well as distributing a number of brochures that clarify this and clarify the university’s role in empowering women and helping them in all fields and standing by them if they are exposed to any manifestation of violence.