In a humane gesture, Facebook pioneers shared a picture of an Egyptian university professor carrying a child inside the examination committee, with the comment "I have a student's daughter in the committee" attached to it.
The owner of the picture is Dr. Ali al-Idrisi, an economist and lecturer at the Academy of Culture and Sciences in the city of 6th of October, west of Cairo. He told Cairo 24 newspaper that while he was passing through one of the examination committees, he found a fourth year student taking an exam and placing her little girl, Batool, next to her. He did not hesitate to carry her so as not to Her mother is busy taking the exam.
Al-Idrisi explained that the mother was accompanied by an assistant to carry her daughter outside the committees, and for some circumstances the assistance did not attend that day, and she could not act, "and I did not find anything wrong with her carrying her child throughout the exam period."
He continued, "Beyond being a university professor, the daughter is young, and the mother's circumstances were unable to leave her, and she obtained permission to take her inside the committee, and she was unable to leave the daughter outside the committee, and what I did was a human duty, nothing more."
Similar situations in other countries
What Dr. Al-Idrisi did with his student was not the first of its kind to happen in the corridors of universities. In February 2018, the pioneers of communication sites shared the image of a university professor carrying a child during a lecture at a university in Lebanon.
At that time, Dr. Hassan Shamas wrote on his Facebook account, explaining that a master's student took her child with her to the lecture, and the latter started crying, so he was only able to carry him, trying to calm him down so that the students could focus.
In the United States, student Christine Black (21 years old) was forced to take her newborn daughter to the university in order to continue her educational attainment, so university professor Bruce Johnson had nothing but to carry her.
Kristen Black took a semester off from college to have her baby.
She was determined to go back and continue her studies to become an optometrist, her dream job… https://t.co/knwOiSj1HB pic.twitter.com/lff72m4VBw
— All4Women.co.za (@all4women) May 10, 2018
The Egyptian student's having to take her child to the exam was also not the first situation of its kind. On January 30, 2022, the pioneers of the Twitter platform shared a picture of a student from Al-Quds Open University in Palestine taking her child with her inside the exam committee.
A student from Al-Quds Open University - Palestine takes her child with her to the exam.😍😍 pic.twitter.com/vSCe3c2HrK
- The Palestinian Charitable Kitchen 🇵🇸 (@Palestinekitche) January 30, 2022
On October 19, 2019, Twitter pioneers shared a picture of a student from Yemen carrying her child in the university classroom.
This is the authentic girl of Yemen, a Yemeni student carrying her child in the classroom pic.twitter.com/YQp0WTxilX
- 🇾🇪 Marwan Alasali 🇾🇪 Marwan Al-Asali 🇾🇪 (@MarwanAlaslay) October 19, 2019