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Kawthar Zaki Quotes

born 1940 Egypt

Kawthar Abdelhamid Zaki (born 1940) is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, known for her work in microwave engineering including the design of microwave waveguides, resonators, and filters. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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

I’m so grateful that Egypt had free high quality public higher education when Ali and I met. If it were not for Ain Shams, I would not have been able to come this far.

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

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kawthar Zaki (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.