In the first application of the cooperation agreement concluded by Dr. Mahmoud El-Matini, President of Ain Shams University, with the Bonavero Institute at the University of Oxford, during his visit to the United Kingdom last month, Ain Shams University organized the regional qualifiers for the Middle East region for the Oxford University (Price) competition from 10 To March 12, the opening session was held in the Zafaran Palace, and the competition activities were conducted (online) due to the circumstances of the Corona pandemic.

Dr. Ahmed Khalifa, Director of the International Cooperation Office at the Faculty of Law, and the regional coordinator of the competition stated that this year’s regional qualifiers witnessed a great competition between many universities from the Middle East region from several countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia. The competition was judged by about thirty judges from India, Mexico, Britain, Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia and Palestine.

He added that the top four teams qualified from those qualifiers to the international final competition that will take place in Britain next June. The British University Law School team won first place and Ain Shams University team won second place.

It is worth noting that the Ain Shams University team is the only team in the Middle East that has consistently qualified for the international finals since the start of the participation of the teams of Middle Eastern universities from 2013 until now.

The organizing team for the competition consisted of former participants from Ain Shams University graduates, who volunteered to communicate with the participating teams, judges and prepare tables over the last three months, as well as follow up the technical preparation of the competition during match days. The organizing team consisted of Counselor Ola Nagy of the State Litigation Authority, Ms. Nada Gadallah, the international lawyer, and Ms. Yasmine Amr, a graduate of the Faculty of Law.

Dr. Ahmed Khalifa stated that a number of seminars and research seminars on media law will be organized jointly by Oxford University and Ain Shams University in implementation of the cooperation agreement.