Ashraf AboArafe
Ambassador Ezzat Saad, Director of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, and his wife received Egypt’s great guest, Professor Alexei Vasiliev, the chief Russian orientalist and personal envoy of the Russian President for 30 years, during his visit to Egypt at the River Diplomatic Club, at a dinner party in honor of his visit to Egypt, in the presence of a group of Vasiliev’s friends, where Dr. Ibrahim Kamel, the president, attended. The Egyptian-Russian Friendship Association, Murad Gatin, Director of the Russian Cultural Centers in Egypt, Counselor Adly Hussein, former Governor of Qalyubia and Menoufia, Dr. Anwar Ibrahim, the translator, First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, and former Head of the Foreign Cultural Relations Sector.
Dr. Ali Ghaleb, former cultural advisor to Egypt in Moscow, Sherif Gad, head of the Russian and Soviet Universities Alumni Association, writer Dohi Assi, member of the People’s Assembly, and Dr. Mona Khalil, executive director of the Russian-Egyptian Business Council.
Ambassador Ezzat Saad welcomed the personal envoy of the Russian President, the chief Russian orientalist and former director of the Africa Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, stressing that his visit to Egypt is an important event in view of his historical contributions to consolidating Egyptian-Russian cooperation. It is also important to communicate with a great thinker like Vasiliev to learn about Russian viewpoints in all matters. The issues we are going through. For his part, Alexei Vasiliev thanked Ambassador Ezzat Saad and his wife for organizing the dinner party in the presence of a group of his close friends, pointing out that sitting on the shore of the Nile in the heart of Cairo is very enjoyable, and I look forward to visiting Egypt from time to time, as I have spent the most beautiful days of my life here since I was a student at Cairo University, and friends talked about the most important issues that concern the world today, from the Gaza war to the Ukrainian war. There was also a conversation and a preliminary agreement between Professor Alexei Vasiliev and Dr. Anwar Ibrahim, the chief Egyptian translator of the Russian language, about translating his latest work, which will be about Egypt.
