Amr El Abbadi Interview

Immigrant Computer Scientists

Episode 12: Interview with Amr El Abbadi, Professor of CS at UCSB. Immigrant, in the 1980s, from Egypt and Lebanon. Son of famous historians and academics.

فصول

1. Amr El Abbadi Interview (00:00:00)

2. Biography (00:02:42)

3. Train from UK to Alexandria, 1950s (00:04:46)

4. In a family of historians and academics, 1960s (00:06:33)

5. Thanaweya Amma: Egypt Univ Entrance, 1976 (00:09:48)

6. Egypt and Lebanon Comparisons, War of 1967 (00:13:52)

7. Living through wars affects your outlook (00:17:10)

8. Relations between Religions, 1970s (00:20:27)

9. Non-Aligned Movement and Egypt benefits, 1970s (00:22:51)

10. A CS Dept in Alexandria in 1976! And a 4 year Bachelors program! (00:26:05)

11. Punched Cards! IBM360! PDP11! 1970s (00:28:40)

12. 40% CS students in Egypt were women! 1976-1980 (00:31:54)

13. Random meeting then applying to US universities, 1981 (00:35:29)

14. Winters in the US, 1981 (00:39:48)

15. How Cornell CS Dept's small size helped him, 1981-87 (00:40:56)

16. Sadat assassination, war, while he was at Cornell, early 1980s (00:42:40)

17. Amidst Kuwait War, father trying to find way back to Egypt, 1990s (00:45:01)

18. "We had to be careful of what we said" (00:48:53)

19. CS Academic Job Market in 1987 (00:56:32)

20. Mentors and Role Models, Unveiled Women in Egypt (00:58:49)

21. Failures and Rejections (01:00:37)

22. Impostor Syndrome (01:02:18)

23. 2011 Egypt Green Revolution (01:03:23)