| TBS
Editors |
| S. Abdallah Schleifer,
publisher and senior editor, is the director of the Adham Center for Television
Journalism and distinguished lecturer in mass communication at the American University
in Cairo. Prior to joining the AUC faculty, Schleifer served as NBC News Cairo
Bureau Chief and Middle East producer/reporter based in Beirut, and has covered
the Middle East for American and Arab media for over 20 years. In 1997-8, on sabbatical
leave from AUC for the academic year, Schleifer signed on for a one-year assignment
to reorganize along professional lines the ART Broadcast and Production Center
in Avezzano as its managing director, reporting directly to Sheikh Saleh Kamel.
Schleifer is honorary and former chairman of the Foreign Press Association in
Cairo. |
| Hussein Y. Amin,
senior editor, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Radio and
Television Union, a member of the General Assembly of the Egyptian Ministry of
Information, head of the State Committee on Satellite Broadcasting, and member
of the Higher Committee on the Nilesat project. He is a professor at the American
University in Cairo, and has published many articles in English and in Arabic
in the field of transnational communications. |
| Humphrey
Davies, managing editor, is the publications manager for the Adham Center
for Television Journalism. Davies is an Arabist, translator, and editor. His critical
edition, translation, and lexicon of a seventeenth-century work on rural life
in Egypt is forthcoming from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has
translated Naguib Mahfouz's novel Thebes at War for the American University in
Cairo Press (2003) and is currently at work on other translations from Arabic.
Davies served as representative of the Ford Foundation in the Sudan from 1990
to 1993 and for the Middle East and North Africa region from 1993 to 1997. |
| Shems Friedlander,
creative director, is an award-winning New York graphic designer who is now a
senior lecturer in the department of journalism and mass communication and director
of the Apple Center for Graphic Communications at the American University in Cairo.
He is the author of nine books and has written many articles for publications
worldwide. |
| Mayada
Wahsh, web designer. She is also managing editor of AdhamOnline.com. Prior
to these positions Wahsh served at the Adham Center as design and editorial assistant
to the former publications manager, Sarah Sullivan. Wahsh has served as a communications
trainer and materials designer for NAMRU (Navy American Medical Research Unit.) |
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| Contributing
Editors |
| Jacob Arback is
president of Business Research International (BRI), based in Los Angeles, CA.
BRI advises clients in the global satellite, satellite services and pay television
businesses and conducts cross-cultural executive training for Fortune 500 companies
doing business in the Middle East. Arback is also a senior executive with Anytime
TV, the new digital video delivery network. Prior to joining BRI, Arback was vice
president of DirecTV-International, a subsidiary of GM-Hughes Electronics, and
previously, was vice president, International Marketing, for Hughes Communications
International, Inc. |
| Ralph
Berenger, book reviews editor, is assistant professor in the Department of
Journalism and Mass Communication of the American University in Cairo, where he
teaches international communications, mass media theory, and mass media management.
Berenger has held academic positions in the United States and has worked on newspaper
and journals in the US and East Africa. |
| Janet Fine is
an American film and television journalist based in New York and India, working
as a contributing editor for Video Age International publication and is a correspondent
for various publications, including Middle East film and TV contributor for Variety
newspaper and film editor of Elan Magazine in Bombay. In addition, she works for
Indian TV in New York as entertainment correspondent for “Vision of Asia” and
a TV producer with CMM Studios in Bombay. She has authored five books. |
| Chris Forrester
is a well-known broadcast journalist, with columns regularly published in Middle
East-related magazines and newspapers. A frequent broadcaster, he is also author
of "Digital television broadcastingódrivers for growth and pattern of uptake,"
published in June 1998 by Phillips Business Information. |
| Nailah Hamdy is
a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American
University in Cairo. She worked for 15 years in TV news, as a producer/reporter
and videotape editor, for a variety of international stations including CBS News
and ZDF. |
| Hamid Ouddane,
TBS Internet Technologies Contributor, is EPG (electronic program guide) team
leader at the Information Systems Department, Orbit. |
| Sarah Sullivan
is the former and founding managing editor of TBS (issues 1 through 8) and manager
of Adham Center publications now working as Web and Publications Manager of the
Arab American Institute in Washington DC. |
| David Wilmsen
is director of the Arabic and Translation Studies Division at the American University
in Cairo’s Center for Adult and Continuing Education. He provides TBS with English
translations of Arabic-language material. He has seven years’ experience in public
and community radio broadcasting, with a focus on international and cross-cultural
programming. |
|
| Correspondents |
| Hala Abdulrahman,
Cairo Correspondent |
| Assya Y.
Ahmed, Cairo Correspondent |
| Azza Enanie,
Cairo Correspondent |
| Magdi Ghoneim
TV5, Paris, France Correspondent |
| Noha El-Hennawy,
Cairo Correspondent |
| Jenny
Jobbins, Cairo Correspondent |
| Heba Kandil,
Cairo Correspondent |
| Monal
Zeidan, CEO of Zeidan Consultancy, a Dubai public relations firm Gulf correspondent |
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| Editorial Assistant |
| Sehr Karim, Mount
Holyoke College, Massachusetts. |
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| Editorial Advisory
Board |
| Joe Foote (chairman)
Cronkite Endowment Professor and Director of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
and Telecommunication at Arizona State University |
| Radi A. Alkhas,
ART Vice President for Technology and Development; former Director General, Jordan
Radio and Television |
| Jon B. Alterman,
Director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Washington DC. |
| Frank Aycock,
Department of Communication, Appalachian State University; former chairman of
the Broadcast Education Association International Division |
| Douglas Boyd,
College of Communication and Information Studies, University of Kentucky |
| David
Chambers, Digital Content Management manager for Communications & Content
industry, KPMG Consulting (Los Angeles) |
| James Curran,
Goldsmiths College, University of London |
| Leo Gher, Head
of Electronic Media Marketing and Management, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale; Chairman and CEO of Avery Media, Inc. |
| Cees Hamelink,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Editor-in-chief of Gazette/The International
Journal for Communication Studies |
| Yahya R. Kamalipour,
Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Calumet |
| Robert W. Ross,
CEO of New Skies Satellite and former president of Turner International, Inc.
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| Joe Straubhaar,
Department of Radio, Television and Film, the University of Texas at Austin; former
chairman of the Broadcast Education Association International Division |
| Leonard Teel,
Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for International Media
Education, Georgia State University |
| Richard Vincent,
Department of Communication, University of Hawaii, Manoa |