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I was born Deaf just as I am now.

There are 4 hearing people in my family. No other Deaf people. I'm the only one. No others.

I'm originally Deaf and at first my school was here in the Deaf Association in Mansheyya, but then when I heard that it shut down I moved.

And then, after the third year of secondary school, my class, we weren't satisfied with just a high school degree, we wanted to go to college! That was our idea at first.

But the school said no to the idea of college out in that rural area. There is a university out there, it's successful.

Back in high school, all of this (the association) wasn't here. It was new, I was one of the first here.

Of course we benefit from the school. There are good teachers and some not so good. There were two very exacting teachers-- he got a good one, I didn't, and we were in separate classes.

Wait a second, I want to say something more. Now, there are Deaf people who have new teachers and don't learn anything! They don't know how to read and write like us. None of them [the teachers] have experience and all they care about is getting their paycheck.

It's because, there's blame-- the place that has things done right is here in the Association, or in the Asdaa Association too, there's real education there but not at the Al-Amal School for the Deaf.

When I received the Certificate of Merit I went to a great company but everything was "forbidden, forbidden" and they just ushered me out unceremoniously. Some places are like that.

The reason for the punishment was because we would be stubborn, that's all.

We had to really pass the tests, it wasn't like we could just coast through, we were made to write correctly and also to oralize correctly.

I developed my signing from my parents and then I enrolled in the Al-Amal school for the Deaf and kept learning their from my peers.

I was progressing with learning to sign when I found out that the Association is here in Mansheyya so I went here and developed a lot more.

Hey, Tell him that the association here is like our mother.

This place is where they learn. This place is the mother to all the Alexandrian Deaf community. Does he understand?

Our education and development is in a huge part thanks to this place!

If I read something and don't know a word, my hearing brother tells me and then I know it. But at the Al-Amal School for the Deaf there was never education.

I was just born Deaf. I grew up Deaf just since birth.

I had a fever [to become Deaf].

I've always been Deaf.

Public education needs to change. All the teachers need to learn sign language fluently so that they can teach Arabic properly, instead of just letting whatever slide. Because that's our right, the right of any Deaf person.

My name is Yusef and my name sign is [index finger on chin].

I was born deaf originally, thank God [alhamdullilah].

I was born Deaf, God gave me my Deafness.

I know that for God to give me Deafness from birth is normal. Of course there are other types of disabilities, like blindness, mental disability, etc. I'm healthy and normal and I thank God for that.

I went to a Deaf public school, the Al-Amal school for the Deaf in Gianaclis.

At first, I went to public school.

The public education wasn't so great, so then I came here to the Asdaa' Association where they have educational programs.

التعليم الحكومي لازم يتغير. كل المدرسين لازم يتعلموا لغة الإشارة بالطلاقة عشان يقدروا يعلّموا العربي بشكل مظبوط بدلا من كلام "اي حاجة" وعشان دا حقنا وحق أي شخص أصم.