Students

COVID-19: THE CARAVAN DOCUMENTS LIFE UNDER CONFINEMENT

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

Day One – March 27, 2020

DAY TWO: OF LONELINESS AND SILENT PRAYERS

DAY FOUR: THIS QUARANTINE NEEDS TO END

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

Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism

Congratulations! to Adham Center Television and Digital Journalism Masters students for winning big at this year's Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Annual Festival of Media Arts.

In the Film and Video Category: Sherehan Khaled Elazazy won 1st Place for her story Egyptian South Pole.
In the Micro Documentary Category: Dania Elmor won 2nd place for her story Dorgham’s Son; Layla Umara won Award of Excellence for her story A Craft in Color; Maha El-Rayes won Award of Excellence for her story Siwa … Heaven of Recovery.
In the Short Film Documentary Category: Hussein El Moataz won Award of Excellence for his story The People of Gold.
All these stories were part of the master students' capstone projects supervised by Dr. Hussein Amin.
The prestigious BEA is one of the top three international conferences in the field of media and communication. The student wins were among more than 1,700 submissions from all around the world in the different festival categories. The BEA and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Exhibition are held in April of every year in Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada, the United States.