Episode 18: Effect of Wars in Lebanon and Egypt

Interview with: Two Immigrant Computer Scientists from Lebanon and Egypt, from Season 1 of the podcast. Reminisce about the effect of wars in their countries. 

Episode Guide

In this Episode: Two US Computer Science Professors (MIT, UCSB) grew up in Lebanon and Egypt in the 1960s, 70s, 1990s, and 2000s. They reminisce about the effect of the continual wars in those two countries on their lives and their family’s lives. This is a remix episode, featuring snippets of conversations from Season 1 of the podcast.

• mm.ss: Segment Info (Index)
• 0.54: Introduction to Episode
• 2.10: Amr El Abbadi. Computer Science Professor at UC Santa Barbara. Wars in Egypt and Lebanon in 1960s and 70s.
• 14.21: Fadel Adib. Computer Science Professor at MIT (Lebanon). Wars in Lebanon in 1990s and 2000s.

About the Narrators in this Episode

• Amr El Abbadi
• Fadel Adib (also, Episode 9)

Useful Links

• Britannica page on Middle East
• World Atlas Page on Middle East
• Egypt Wikipedia Page
• Wars involving Egypt
• Lebanon Wikipedia Page
• Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990
• 2006 Lebanon War

Previously on this Podcast

In case you missed it! Previously on the Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast

• Several anonymous narrators, from across many continents. (Episode 15).
• Our interview with Danqi Chen, Gold Medal winner at IOI (Informatics Olympiad) in 2008 (only woman Gold medal winner), and student in famous Yao Class at Tsinghua University. (Episode 14).
• Our interview with Jelani Nelson, “immigrant” from US Virgin Islands and creator of AddisCoder program in Ethiopia (Episode 13), especially his last segment on IOI data inequity analysis.
• Our third segment (Episodes 9, 10, 11, 12) on Middle East, featuring entrepreneurs and a famous academic family from Iran, Lebanon, and Egypt , starting with the Middle East Entrepreneurs lead episode.
• Our second segment (Episodes 5, 6, 7, 8) featuring Computer Scientists from Brazil, all of whom spent careers in both academia and industry, going To and Fro between Brazil and US, and to and fro between academia and industry.
• Our first segment (Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4) featuring Computer Scientists from Yugoslavia, A Country That No Longer Exists?
• Check them out!

• Credits
  • Music Credits for Podcast
  • The caption picture at top of page is of Horseshoe Bend in Arizona, USA. Pic taken by Indy Gupta.

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