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Sara E. Media Consultant & Trainer, Director of Communications
Last update: Mar 23, 2023
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Citizenships:
Egypt, Greece
Languages:
Arabic, English
Highest Degree:
Masters
Experience:
25 years
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About
- A Greece-based communications professional, writer/editor, and media trainer with more than 17 years of experience.
Founder of Displaced, an audio news app for supporting refugees which won 1st place at Techstars’ Startup Weekend Athens 2018. - Currently heads communications at Tribal (formerly Aingel), an US-based startup that uses AI to bridge the financial inclusion gap for startups in emerging markets.
- Throughout the course of my career, I taught over 500 students as a former adjunct faculty member at The American University in Cairo.
- Trained more than 700 journalists and media professionals for several esteemed organizations, including Thomson Reuters Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and the AUC GAPP Executive Education.
- Developed journalism training guidebooks/manuals and training modules on social cohesion and strengthening civil peace in conflict areas.
- Delivered training courses on SDGs, Migration, Climate Change, Human Trafficking and Slavery, Countering Disinformation, Elections, and Gender among other topics in many cities (i.e., Jakarta, Lima, Beirut, Amman, Ramallah, Dubai, Manama, Nouakchott, Athens, and Cairo).
- Headed The AUC Business Review quarterly magazine as Managing Editor.
- Expert in designing methodology and metrics to monitor and evaluate media content, analyzing more than 2,000 print and multimedia stories for several reports as a research consultant.
- Author of The Agenda Setting Impact of Egyptian Nightly Television Talk Shows: On Attitudes Towards Civic Engagement.
- Edited and reported Egypt and Middle East news early in my career for several news organizations, including The Associated Press, Cairo Times (now defunct) and Reuters.
(Eligible to work in the EU)
