After 7years of hard work in Europe, resulting in a PhD degree and several international awards, it was hard to go back home to achieve any professional success, immigration was my only option! However, one week after my PhD exams, the Egyptian revolution exploded. Although I was not in Egypt, yet they were the most stressful days of my life! Between January 25th and 28th (2011) my life changed. I booked one way ticket to join Egyptians on the “Friday of Rage”. It was a strange feeling, hard to believe and explain, I couldn’t think except to be back to struggle for my country with my family, either for freedom or to die. I was blocked in the airport, no internet and no cell phone, trying to follow the news on the TV screens, I saw my house set on fire. Finally released from the airport, surprising my parents with my arrival. Thank GOD they were fine! Egyptians continued the struggle against the Mubarak Regime for 2 more weeks, then “WE MADE IT”, Mubarak resigned. My perplexity was resolved; I am home to face a lifetime challenge of “reforms”. I started dreaming of educational and health reforms. I was able to win a European capacity building fund through which I travelled to Germany with two of my female students to train them and be back forming a research team. In the meantime, I applied for WIT mentorship scheme, I was accepted and then surprisingly selected to become a Mentor too! The breaking news followed, winning the national award as the best Egyptian young scientist. My dreams started to come true! I requested a visit to my Mentor, she kindly invited me to give a talk about my research work after which I was fascinated to find a marvelous, enthusiastic international group working in the same research line. Fruitful discussion was initiated and several points of collaboration were proposed. Through her support, we were able to write a joint proposal to be funded by the Netherlands and we applied for the call. Finally I was back Cairo again, university reforms started to take place after the revolution and we were able to change the regulations. For the first time in history, Cairo University (the oldest University in the Middle East) had undergone fair presidential elections. Through WIT and the mentor-ship scheme I am looking forwards to collaboration and staff exchange that will build and raise Cairo University to international standards. Our revolution for liberty and justice is still ongoing until Presidential electionsFigure: [Egyptian Revolution]