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Editors |
| Larwrence
Pintak , senior editor, is the director
of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism at
the American University in Cairo. A veteran of 30
years in journalism on four continents, Pintak has
contributed to many of the world’s leading
news organizations. He previously served as Howard
R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism at the
University of Michigan, lecturing on the intersection
of communications and international policy at the
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and in the
Communications, Middle East and Southeast Asia studies
programs. His books include Beirut Outtakes:
A TV Correspondent’s Portrait of America’s
Encounter with Terror (Lexington 1988), Seeds
of Hate: How America’s flawed Middle East
policy ignited the jihad (Pluto 2003), and
Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam
& the War of Ideas, which will be published
in January 2006 (Pluto Books UK/Univ of Michigan
Press). |
Walter
Armbrust, senior editor, is Hourani Fellow and
University Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern Studies
at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He
is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests
focus on popular culture and mass media in the Middle
East. He is the author of Mass Culture and Modernism
in Egypt, and editor of Mass Mediations:
New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle
East and Beyond. Dr Armbrust is currently working
on a cultural history of the Egyptian cinema. |
| S. Abdallah
Schleifer, publisher, is the former director
of the Adham Center and now professor emeritus in
journalism and mass communication at the American
University in Cairo (AUC). 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. |
| Lindsay
Wise, managing editor of TBS, is also the managing
editor for Adham Online and webmaster for both Adham
and TBS. She has a B.A. in English and Foreign Affairs
from the University of Virginia and an M.Phil. in
Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St. Antony's College,
University of Oxford, where she earned distinction
for her thesis on popular Egyptian da'iya Amr Khaled.
Titled "Words from the Heart: New Forms of Islamic
Preaching in Egypt," the thesis explored the
recent rise of Islamic "televangelists"
through satellite television and the Internet. In
addition to her work with TBS, she is also a freelance
journalist in Cairo, reporting for TIME magazine,
the Sunday Times (London), Scripps Howard
News Service and Cairo magazine. |
| 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. |
| Editorial
Board |
| Walter
Armbrust (Chairman), director of the Middle East
Centre at Saint Anthony's College, Albert Hourani
Fellow and University Lecturer in Modern Middle East
Studies, University of Oxford, U.K. |
| Jon
Alterman, director of the Middle East Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington,
D.C. |
| Hussein
Amin, chair of the Department of Journalism and
Mass Communication, American University in Cairo,
Egypt. |
| Jon
Anderson, chair of the Department of Anthropology,
Catholic University, Washington, D.C. |
| Douglas
A. Boyd, chief of staff, office of the president
and former dean, School of Communication, University
of Kentucky, U.S. |
| Kai
Hafez, University of Erfurt, Germany. |
| Michael
Hudson , director of the Arab Information Project,
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
| Saad
Eddin Ibrahim, American University in Cairo, Egypt,
and chairman of the board, Ibn Khaldun Center for
Development Studies. |
| William
A. Rugh, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy,
Georgetown University, U.S. |
| Tarik
Sabry, University of Westminster, U.K. |
| Naomi
Sakr, University of Westminster, U.K. |
| Contributing
Editors |
| 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. |
| Brooke
Comer
is a freelance correspondent and short story writer
whose work has appeared in the Massachusetts
Literary Review, Davos Global Report, New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, Egypt Today, Playboy, Hollywood
Reporter, Book Forum, Good Housekeeping, National
Public Radio, Glamour, and other publications.
She divides her time between Cairo and Santa Barbara. |
| 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. |
| Marwan M. Kraidy
is assistant professor of International Relations
and International Communication at American University
in Washington, DC. He is the author of Hybridity,
or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (Temple
University Press, 2005), and co-editor of Global
Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge,
2003). He is working on his current book project,
Screens of Contention: Arab Media and the Challenges
of Modernity, as a 2005-2006 Fellow at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. |
| Charles
Levinson is a freelance journalist who writes
for The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco
Chronicle, USA Today, Dallas Morning News and
The Guardian. He is news editor of Cairo
magazine. |
| Hugh
Miles is an award-winning freelance journalist
who has written for The Guardian, the London
Review of Books, and the Sunday Times.
Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News
Channel that Challenged the World is his first
book. |
| 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. |
| Assistant
Editors |
| Jennifer
Derr, Stanford University, CA |
| Leila
Nadir, University of Oxford, UK |
| Usama
Najeeb, American University in Cairo, EGYPT |
| Raya
Shokatfard, American University in Cairo, EGYPT |
| Patrick
Wrigley, University of Oxford, UK |
| International
Advisory Board |
| Joe
Foote (Chairman) Gaylord Chair, Professor, Gaylord
College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University
of Oklahoma |
| Radi
A. Alkhas, ART Vice President for Technology and
Development; former Director General, Jordan Radio
and Television |
| David
Chambers, Head of Middle East Program, the Middle
East Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| Leo
Gher, Head of Electronic Media Marketing and Management,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Chairman
and CEO of Avery Media, Inc. |
| Jim
Gold , Managing Director, News Xchange, London |
| 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. |
| Leonard
Teel, Professor of Communication and Director
of the Center for International Media Education, Georgia
State University |
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