August 2006 till now

A mass Media/Arabic Language/ history and civilization Lecturer at University of Maryland, college park.

Duties:

Preparing/ developing the teaching materials.
Teaching history of the Middle East and contemporary politics.
Interviewing weekly guests.
Preparing audio visual materials to enrich the language ‘s courses

May 2006 till May 2007

Egyptian satellite TV Correspondent in Washington DC and New York.

Special coverage with The Egyptian TV:

The United Nations General Assembly  61/ September 2006

And the Security Council’s sessions.

The Mid-Term Congressional and Senates Elections 2006.

November 2003 – March 2006 

News TV Anchor/Journalist 

         ALHURRA TV

         Washington D.C

Responsibilities.

Main anchor for prime-time one hour newscasts. And Presenter for hourly nine-minute updates and quick 90 seconds bottom of the hour updates.

Presenting live breaking news on air, along with reporter’s inputs from scene of action. Interviewing remote or on set guests and dealing with live phone-in guests.

Writing and editing news stories and preparing news packages to cover daily political/social debates.

Presenting “MAGAZINE” show, a weekly TV show that focuses on a variety of different topics Human rights/social/entertainment.

Important news coverage events at ALHURRA.

Iraqi parliament elections.

Egyptian parliament elections.

Egyptian presidency elections.

London bombings July 2005.

Palestinian elections.

Rafiq Al-Hariri Assassination.

American presidency elections.

The Arabic summit, Algeria Mars 05

Yasser’s Arafat passing away.

 Pope Jean Paul II passing away and papal election.

Ronald Reagan funeral.  

June 2003 to November 2003 

Radio Sawa - DUBAI   

News Anchor/Journalist, Present hourly news updates, write and edit news stories prepare package.

January  2003 to June 2003 

ALARABIYA TV - DUBAI

News TV Anchor/Journalist, Presents the daily Live one hour show of “Al Solta Al Rabe’a”- “The Fourth Authority”, where a press round up is presented and prepared from a variety of international newspapers also translates summaries from English press, and prepare show content, run down and guest questions.

Present and prepare the “last edition” show, another press round-up show but weekly and focuses on analysis of summaries and debates diffused through Arabic press.

2001 to 2003

MBC - DUBAI

News Anchor/Journalist, Present, write and edit news stories prepare package and interview guests.

“All together this morning”  show             معا هذا الصباح  a daily news radio show, with a duration of two hours that sums all important news and events around the world, the show was a reliable source of important and updated information during the Iraqi war.    

1999 to 2001 Cairo

Egypt radio and television union.

Al Tanweer channel/Nile education

1999 to 2001 - Cairo

Egypt radio and television union.

Continued.

Presenter of “للود قضية”  talk TV show in which opposite opinions about hot local topics are being discussed by the Anchor and approximately six guests, Topics considered (Imported goods, Book Prices, Freedom of expression arts/culture, Personal ventures)

Reporter from the 26^th international book fair in Cairo, where interviews were held with book Authors/edition houses/activists.

Presenter of “Al Taqrir” - “the report” an informative show, about important figures and places of the Egyptian heritage. 

Presenter of “Sharon files” show, a TV show of 48 episodes, prepared as a documentary stories  with guests contributions, that enlighten Ariel’s Sharon crimes that were committed against Arabs (Deir Yasine, Sabrah and Shatilla, Qana massacres)     

1998 to 2000 - Cairo

News Thematic Radio

News/shows presenter and producer, interview radio guests on air for political debate discussions.

1999 to 2000 Cairo

Kuwait TV

Egypt Correspondent / Reporter.