Member Spotlight: Michael Selman, Class of 2015
My name is Michael Seleman and I am currently a junior at Burlington High School. As a student of Egyptian roots, I have always been very fascinated by the current political situation in Egypt and the nation’s struggle to maintain a stable government. Though I found myself very interested in the matter, I was always bothered by the idea that Egyptian government was hopeless, that there was no plausible way to restore something so broken.
But then it hit me.
In my TED Talk, I will discuss what I found to be the major source of the Egypt’s political turmoil and how I think it can be reconstructed into a government as functional as that of any other nation. They key to this revival: instituting the concept of Δ, or change, into Egyptian political reasoning. In comparing Egypt’s government to that of the United States, something that I will stress in my TED Talk, I have found that one of the major differences lies in the fact that Egypt has not implemented any version of the “term” that mandates re-elections every so often in the United States. Rather, Egypt has insisted on appointing its leader’s for virtually a lifetime.
Change is a key component of the maintaining order in nation and pleasing its population. Through my TED Talk, I hope to change our perspective of Egypt’s situation and possibly even spark a new approach to reform in the struggling nation.
My name is Michael Seleman and I am currently a junior at Burlington High School. As a student of Egyptian roots, I have always been very fascinated by the current political situation in Egypt and the nation’s struggle to maintain a stable government. Though I found myself very interested in the matter, I was always bothered by the idea that Egyptian government was hopeless, that there was no plausible way to restore something so broken.
But then it hit me.
In my TED Talk, I will discuss what I found to be the major source of the Egypt’s political turmoil and how I think it can be reconstructed into a government as functional as that of any other nation. They key to this revival: instituting the concept of Δ, or change, into Egyptian political reasoning. In comparing Egypt’s government to that of the United States, something that I will stress in my TED Talk, I have found that one of the major differences lies in the fact that Egypt has not implemented any version of the “term” that mandates re-elections every so often in the United States. Rather, Egypt has insisted on appointing its leader’s for virtually a lifetime.
Change is a key component of the maintaining order in nation and pleasing its population. Through my TED Talk, I hope to change our perspective of Egypt’s situation and possibly even spark a new approach to reform in the struggling nation.