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These are the stories of AUC students coping with the curfew, home confinement, and online teaching.

Day 141: A Very Good Morning, Indeed

Day 140: Job Searching and Salvaging What’s Left of a Social Life

Day 139: Lights in the Middle of the Tunnel

Students Achievements

Student Achievements across the school different disciplines and departments

Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC)

Basma Mostafa Taha and Jaidaa Taha Arafa presented a research paper at the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) conference at the University of Brighton, in Brighton, UK. The conference was held from January 8 to 10, 2020.
Congratulations to Dr. Kim Fox students who won awards in the 2020 BEA Media Festival of Arts audio competition. Nour El-Tobgy, an MMJ major, produced an audio feature, "The President Jailed my Grandfather." It was selected to receive the BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards - the top awards given during BEA’s Festival of Media Arts, a competitive festival open to BEA faculty and student members." This is an honor given to only 21 students and faculty out of more than 1700 entries in the 2020 competition. The recognition comes with a $1000 award. In other audio categories:

First place: Basant Samhout (MMJ)

"It's Time For 'The Talk" where she asks her parents how they learned about sex education. Category: student audio, international (new this year)

Second place: Habiba Sallam (CMA)

"Lady of the Empire Podcast," about historically influential Arab women. Category: student audio, specialty/podcast (new this year)

Third place: Youssef Essam Afifi (CMA)

"Omar Makram: A Forgotten Egyptian Figure," an Egyptian national hero. Category: student audio, educational program

JRMC 4480 Multimedia Reporting Capstone

Congratulations to our emerging journalists!!

Students enrolled in the JRMC 4480 Multimedia Reporting Capstone taught by Associate Dean Prof. Naila Hamdy this spring - won the first and third place of the student multimedia news story 2019-2020 contest sponsored by the International Communication Division of AEJMC.

The multimedia news story “The Corona Chronicles” produced by Noran Alaa, Eman Magdy and Habiba Sallam was placed first and the multimedia story “Online Sexual Harassment” produced by Basant Samhout, Farah Rafik and Aya Abou Shady was placed third.

Congratulations to Noran Morsi and Mohamed Youssef who have been shortlisted as finalists for the Broadcast Education Association's (BEA) On-Location Creative Competition.

Noran produced "From Cairo to Brooklyn: The Arab American Experience," which was the winning podcast in this year's The Author's Challenge.

Mohamed produced "I Wish Something Happens and He Goes ..." for the Audio Production course in JRMC. His audio feature includes audio clips from his oral history interview with his aunt. The oral history component is a part of collaboration with the Global Liberal Arts Alliance's (GLAA) Global Course Connection (GCC). The Audio Production course is taught by Professor Kim Fox.

Public Policy and Administration Department

Department of Law

Jana Moss IHRL graduate student participated in the annual meeting on law and society 2019.
May Elshiekh, a graduate of the MA in International Human Rights Law and Justice Program has recently been awarded the AUC 25th of January Award for her Master’s Thesis, titled "The Politics and Poetics of Memory - Law and Temporality in Contemporary Egypt". The thesis was recognized as the outstanding thesis work on a topic related to democracy, human rights, citizenship and sustainable development in the Middle East and North Africa for a thesis completed during the current academic year. You can find out more about Mayy's Thesis here