CMRS Hosts National Validation Workshop on Egyptian Media Portrayal of Migrants
CMRS hosted the National Validation Workshop on EHUB’s paper “Framing Migration: How Egyptian Television Portrays Migrants and Refugees,” the third study in EHUB’s papers series. EHUB is funded by the EU Delegation to Egypt and supported by IOM. Its second phase is part of the project “Strengthening Migration Data and Statistics Ecosystem in Egypt.”
The workshop opened with remarks by Professor Ibrahim Awad, CMRS director at AUC; Karim Abulenien, minister plenipotentiary at MFA; Agnieszka Sternik, first secretary at the EU Delegation; and Carlos Oliver Cruz, chief of mission at IOM.
The paper findings were presented by the authors, Maysa Ayoub, assistant professor at CMRS at AUC, and Shaimaa Gheith, EHUB research officer at CMRS at AUC, followed by a discussion by Naila Hamdy, associate dean at JRMC at AUC, and moderated by Sara Sadek, EHUB senior manager and adjunct professor at CMRS at AUC.
The workshop concluded with a roundtable discussion, “Beyond Television: Migrants and Refugees in Egyptian Media,” moderated by Professor Ibrahim Awad and featuring experts who reflected on the topic based on their academic and practical experiences: Nadine El Sayed, associate professor at AUC; Salma Okasha, IOM; Christine Beshay, UNHCR; Omneya Ghamry, SCI; and Mohamed El Kazzaz, Al-Ahram.