Ain Shams University hosts Major General Staff Dr. Samir Farag in a symposium entitled "Egypt to Where: Challenges and Achievements" in Al-Multaqa program with the journalist "Khaled Saad" today, Wednesday, November 23, in the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Pharmacy at 12:00 noon.

Major General Staff Dr. Samir Farag held many positions in the Egyptian Armed Forces in the Operations Authority and the Military Research Authority. He worked as a teacher at the Infantry Institute and a teacher at the Command and Staff Faculty. He was also appointed as director of the Office of the Director General of Military Intelligence.

He participated in the October 1973 war, where he was an operations officer in “Center 10” within the operations of the General Command of the Armed Forces, and he was the youngest officer in age and rank at that time.

He was the Director of the Morale Affairs Department of the Egyptian Armed Forces for a period of 7 years from 1993 to 2000, and he was appointed as a military attache to Turkey from 1990 to 1993.

He also held some civil positions, including the presidency of the Supreme Council of Luxor in 2004, and he also held the position of director of the Egyptian Opera House in the period from 2000.