Dreams have no wings, and nothing guarantees that they will see the light, but we must strive to achieve them.
The dream was very far from the imagination of the child Lubna Saleh, who was born on the outskirts of the Fayoum desert, where yellow sand and olive trees are the most you see every morning, and nothing but family and grazing sheep.
Like many girls, their ultimate ambition is a husband who moves with him from the desert to the villages bordering the cities, but if the expected groom is a city dweller, then that is a grace from God for them to thank him for a lifetime. God is among the patient.”
Ismail’s words to his father Ibrahim when he was about to slaughter him for the command of God in the prophetic vision, written by researcher Lubna Saleh on the front of her official page on the social networking site “Facebook”, to express her arduous journey that began when she was 12 years old, and did not even end Now the journey in which customs, traditions, lack of money and lack of support prevailed, but she never lost her compass that directed her from the beginning towards education.
Bedouin and family fear led Lubna's family to refuse to enroll in primary education because schools are far from their homes, so how can a girl travel that distance in the middle of the Fayoum desert to reach school in the absence of safe transportation.
In an interview with the Women of Egypt page, the spokesperson for the National Council for Women, about Lubna’s journey, which began at the age of twelve, the page said that when literacy and adult education classes were opened in Lubna Saleh, Lubna joined the first semester, and within 12 months she learned Reading, writing and arithmetic principles, she took the exam and obtained her literacy certificate in 1999.
One year later, a decision was issued to equate the literacy certificate with the primary certificate and the eligibility of those who obtained it to enroll in the preparatory certificate, and the second millennium began with a new beginning for the girl Lubna Saleh, who became a student in the first preparatory grade "Manzel".
Home schooling was not a burden on Lubna, rather it was a lifeline that brought her closer to her dream without being let down by the support of her family who are afraid for their daughter, and they want her to marry quickly like the rest of the girls in her village. Verification after joining high school.
Here is her dream coming soon, and all she has to do is study and make an effort in order to enroll in the college she desires: economics and political science.
It was time for her to leave Fayoum for spacious Cairo, but the winds did not bring what that student wanted, as Dr. Lubna told the Egyptian News newspaper, "Despite my high grades in high school, my parents completely refused to leave Fayoum and study in Cairo, so my dream was reduced to studying Islamic archeology. I joined the Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University, in 2008 and graduated in 2011.
The journey, which began in a small literacy class in 1999, culminated in obtaining a doctorate in Islamic archeology from Fayoum University in 2021, with a recommendation to print the thesis and exchange it with other universities.
Thus, Lubna Saleh Abdel Mawla, the daughter of the village of Fayoum, achieved her first dream and obtained a doctorate, but her other dreams are still without wings, but it is still possible to achieve them.