Executive sat down to talk with Elwy Taymour after a press conference announcing the opening of the YAL Egypt Branch, the appointment of Taymour as its chair, and the formal launch of a program called Learning for Life, which is “designed to help Arab students bridge the gap between universities’ academic output and the marketplace requirements.” E So here we are, minute one. Right. We just started, this is minute one. E Egypt seems like a pretty big gap in coverage. What happened was that Young Arab Leaders realized from the very beginning that Egypt was very important, but for two or three years nothing really happened. E Why not? I think it just didn’t materialize. But the Minister of Investment came in with SODIC [an Egyptian company that has been running a pilot program for the past year], and they tried to push the program and start the chapter.
