Today, Assiut University has witnessed the opening of  the second workshop among the program of the political edification of the upper Egypt university students entitled "National State: Opportunities and Challenges", organized by the Centre for Future Studies in cooperation with the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies in Cairo. The two-day workshop focused on  a number of topics that dealt with the rights of Egypt in the Nile water, the modern national state and the challenges of survival, the Egyptian economy, modern Egyptian history, and the Egyptian-American relations after the revolution of June 30.