90 YEARS of British Council Excellence! Dr. Samer Ahmed on Engineering and Community Impact in Qatar

90 YEARS of British Council Excellence! Dr. Samer Ahmed on Engineering and Community Impact in Qatar

Celebrating 90 years of the British Council, Dr. Samer Ahmed shares his professional journey as a mechanical engineer and reflects on the significant role the British Council has played in shaping and supporting the community in Qatar.

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celebrating the British Council and
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they've been in business now for 90
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years 90 years and the ripples that
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they've created would helping others is
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tremendous it's not ripples anymore it's
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actually waves so this is what they've
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done on a global basis today we've got
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Professor Samir Samir thank you Sam
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Ahmed yeah yeah yeah welcome to the
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podcast thanks very much for inviting me
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it's really my pleasure to be here and
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uh participate in the celebration of the
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British Council and you're a great
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person could you introduce everybody
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yourself and your what you do right yeah
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um as you mentioned I'm a professor of
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mechanical engineering at K University
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univers I before that I did my BHD at
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Cambridge
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University uh for in between 2003
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2007 then I stayed in Cambridge doing
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bosok research uh for around 2 years
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then I moved to the Middle East area for
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to be a faculty in in the University so
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first I went to Saudi Arabia King fad
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University okay uh for like three years
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then I came here I I'm going to take you
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back to Cambridge cuz it's probably one
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of the best cities in the UK for me
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right right out of all the other big
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ones Cambridge is is is really special
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to me because of the weather normally
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when I'm going there the the the history
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what was it like being a member of
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Cambridge
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University yeah when I first maybe I
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didn't mention how I I got the the the
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BHD at Cambridge University at when I
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was in Egypt I finished my master and uh
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bachelor degree uh a British Petroleum
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Company announced for a scholarship uh
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to the the the the Cambridge to do PhD
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at Cambridge University and I
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participated among like thousands you
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know Egypt Egypt like is more than 100
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billion people I mean it was a very
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tough competition and luckily I chosen
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for that uh
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scholarship uh so when I went to
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Cambridge everyone told me even the I
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met the ambassador of the British
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ambassador at at Cairo uh he said this
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is like a University City I didn't
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recognize what that means but when I
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went to Cambridge I found like it's like
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you are walking in an open Museum uh
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these colleges the the university
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building and everything in the city like
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linked with the university in in a way
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or another apart from of the beauty
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landscape the weather yeah all of that
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you can tell
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whatever you would like to tell but to
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to find a a whole city like within a
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university or a university within a city
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this is was a new for me the history was
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just when you must have been there in
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the in the universities to be walking in
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the same foot press Footprints is some
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of the biggest Minds that the world has
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ever seen must have been special right
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yeah I mean those uh Nobel Prize winner
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or uh something like uh Trinity College
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when this hall for you know different in
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inventors and great scientist yeah you