| 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 professor and chair
of the department of Journalism and Mass Communication
at the American University in Cairo. Amin is the chairman
of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU)'s
Research and Development committee and member of the
Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Radio and Television
Union (ERTU). Amin serves as a member of the advisory
boards of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
(WOCMES), the Journal of International Communication
(JIC), and the Global Media Journal (GMJ). Amin has
published many research articles related to international
and transnational broadcasting with specific reference
to the Middle East. |
| 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, 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 Broadcasting:
Drivers for Growth and Pattern of Uptake,published
in June 1998 by Phillips Business Information. |
| Naila
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 and now works 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 |
| |
| Editorial
Assistant |
| Anand
Balakrishnan. |
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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. |
| 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 |