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Radio and Electronics Amateurs Society

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  جمعية هواة اللاسلكي والالكترونيات ( كلية الهندسة – جامعة عين شمس – مصر) Radio and Electronics Amateurs Society (Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo EGYPT) The following are a collection of photos from the early 1970s. The Radio and Electronics Amateurs Society was formed in the 1960s at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo EGYPT to encourage students to think outside the box and be innovative in addition to learning new technologies with hands on practical approach to design, testing, packaging and presentation. I joined the society in 1969 during my year 2 at the faculty of Engineering. With the members of the society, we used to stay in the summer holiday at the Society laboratory in the faculty of Engineering. The members start with making a big list of projects implementing some of the theories studied during the year. Projects allocated to individuals or teams of two. Components sourced mainly from scrapped electronic devices to reduce cost...
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Reading Qur’an Pages User Guide for Windows

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  (Reading Qur’an Pages) User Guide for Windows ©2024 The objective of this program to display the Holy Qur’an pages on a screen to allow the reader (reciter) to move to the next page, the previous page, or jump to a specific page using the computer mouse and the keyboard.   The Program has the following features: ·          2 different Mushaf (Quraan) formats. ·          Jump to any page, Juzz’ or Surah. ·          Up to 5 bookmarks that may allow up to 5 users to use the device. ·          Display the Hijra and Gregorian calendar dates at the bottom of the screen. ·          Adjust Hijra date.   Installation Instructions: From a USB drive: Run the installation program “Setup_RQP-W.vbs” from one of ...
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Mindset for growth

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  Mohammed A. Helal , written on 7 January 2020 To write these words I had to change my mindset.  I have many ideas but told myself I can’t write them down or, that people might see it as useless. However, after few weeks of hesitation I decided to change my mindset, then believe in my experience and knowledge and counter all these negative thoughts. I convinced myself that may be someone will benefit from my words. Before I retired and during my working years, I am sure I had a mindset for growth and progress.  How do I know?  One of the reasons is that I never said no to a challenging task. I believed that one’s mindset is determined by a collection of experiences, knowledge, beliefs, and what you think about yourself and the world around you. My religion ( Islam ) impacted my life and enhanced my growth mindset.  There is a very beautiful verse in the Qur’ān that states that God will make things work out when and where someone does not expect: “ And whos...
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Reading the Qur’an Pages Electronically ©

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  Reading the Qur’an Pages Electronically © Summary: The objective of this project is to design an electronic device to display the Muslims’ holy book (the Qur’an) and allow the reader (reciter) to move to the next page, the previous page, or jump to a specific page using a small remote control. Muslims perform obligatory prayers (fardh salah) every day plus additional optional prayers (sunnah salah). Details of Muslims’ salah and how it is performed can be found in this article:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah In the prayers (salah), the Muslim recites the first chapter of the holy book (the Qur’an) followed by other passages (verses) from the holy book (the Qur’an). The first chapter of the  Qur’an  is called Al-Fatihah (Arabic: ٱلْفَاتِحَة‎, al-Fātiḥah, meaning “The Opening”). In the obligatory (compulsory) salah, the Muslim must recite memorized verses from the Quran (and not allowed to carry anything during the salah). However, in the additional optional pr...
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