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Inas Taha, Fall 2014
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"I was lucky to be one of the first Jameel fellows to obtain a Master of Public Administration from AUC. My career path and experience in the world of international nonprofits and organizations, including the World Health Organization, the World Bank, USAID and Plan International, has given me the ambition and drive for development. Being part of such organizations, I became involved in program management, research and database administration, media, publications and advocacy. Over the years, I have made a intensive effort to involve myself in my local community. I volunteered at several community development associations, which gave me the opportunity to experience several aspects of the community development field."
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Mohamed Abdel-Baky,Yousef Jameel Fellowship, Cohort 1
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Mohamed Abdel-Baky is acting editor in chief of the newsroom of TEN TV network, having previously served as assistant to the editor-in-chief of CBC Extra news channel and as part of the team which launched the leading Egyptian news channel. He is also a senior journalist and editorial board member at Al-Ahram Weekly.
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David Olanya, 2007
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Olanya is an MPPA alumnus and current dean of the School of Business and Development Studies, Gulu University, Uganda. He obtained a Master of Public Policy and minor in public administration from AUC in 2007.
How do you think your studies in GAPP helped you in advancing your career?
GAPP exposes me to multicultural and intellectually committed staff members with encouraging personalities. It was therefore a great opportunity for me to replicate their potentials to realize my own potential in academic career.
If you were asked to describe your experience in GAPP in a few words, what would you say?
My GAPP experience is working with a high-class, committed group of faculty members who are focused on deliberating ideas in a creative and in an innovative ways. It helps to relate my country’s experience from a global debate to domestic policies being undertaken in my country by those in authority of power.
What were the courses you enjoyed the most at GAPP and why?
I enjoyed a wide range of courses in public administration, and public policy in particular. At that time, we were in transition from public administration to public policy and administration. In public administration, I enjoyed courses in personnel administration, development planning, and managing funds. These were a foundation for me to understand how government functions through planning in a competing environments, supported by capable human resources, but all these cannot be made possible without the funding. In domain of public policy, I enjoyed courses such as public policy theory that enables me to analyze any government from a competing discourses on government behaviors through its instrumental institutions. This exposes to understand the interactions between domestic actors and global actors and how their interactions may cause policy change and choices. It was possibly connected to other courses such as economics for policy analysis, research methods, strategic management for managing for the public sector. In other word, reinforces one another especially in a globalizing economy.
What do you think of the program?
A quality program that accommodates different facets of knowledge, institutions and governments. It offers one not only to understand conceptual issues, but the application to current development problems in emerging and developing countries.
Who were your favorite professors and why?
My favorite professors are Laila El Baradei, Mohamed ElRawi (RIP), Hatem el Karanshawyand Mostapha Kamel Elsayed. Professor El Baradei is more than a classroom professor, but a mentor. Her dedication to her work inspires those who think following her path is inevitable. Her commitment is a psychological contract when supervising student’s research work. Professor El Sayed helps to see public policy not only from economic/rationalistic perspective of policy analysis, but as policy studies, a common analysis in political science and sociology.
Download David Olanya's CV
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JRMC student Nadine Shaker has been accepted for the master's programs at two prestigious journalism programs in the United States: Berkeley and NYU
Congratulations Nadine!
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Nadeen Hassan Shaker is a Middle East and international reporter at Ahram Online, covering Middle Eastern issues, and she is a volunteer at AUC's Cairo Review for Global Affairs, working on an independent documentary about Egypt's contemporary dancers. Shaker obtained her bachelor’s degree in journalism and English and comparative literature in 2012 at AUC. Her future plan is pursuing graduate studies, most likely attending New York University's joint journalism and Near Eastern studies program.
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Dalia El Fiki defends her thesis, “Early Warning Systems for Refugee Crises: Between Ideals and Practice”
Dalia El Fiki with Professors Ibrahim Awad and Allison Hodgkins during her defense |
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According to Dalia El Fiki, “Early warning is often regarded as the solution to complex forced migration questions. The assumption is that if early warning systems are in place, host nations, NGOs and international organizations can prepare for mass influxes. This seemed to be the case with Turkey's response to the Syrian refugee crisis.”
El Fiki plans to work with international organizations on emergency preparedness and political risk analysis to ensure rapid responses to humanitarian crises. She also aims at being involved in projects and/or initiatives that increases communication between field workers and governments, in addition to inter-agency cooperation and public-private partnerships for sustainable development and capacity building projects.
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MPA Alumna to Pursue PhD at Cambridge
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MPA alumna Noura Wahby has been awarded a full scholarship to pursue a PhD in development studies at Cambridge University. Previously, she also received a full (DAAD) scholarship to pursue a PhD in Governance at Hertie School of Governance. Congratulations Noura, we wish her and all our outstanding students all the best in their future endeavors.
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Like Mother Like Daughter
Mother and daughter Olfa ElSellami and Samar Negida have studied in the same school and worked together in a war zone.
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| Samar Negida and Olfa ElSellami with Hussin Amin during Nagida’s graduation in 2013 |
GAPP alumna Samar Negida completed her master’s degree in television and digital journalism from GAPP’s Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in 2013 and her BA in journalism and mass communication in 2012. Negida is currently working at El Tahrir Channel, Cairo as an anchor/correspondent and reporter.
Her mother, Olfa ElSellami, is a Tunisian graduate student, doing her master’s degree in public policy at GAPP. The focus of her research is on the freedom of expression in Tunisia after the revolution. ElSellami is an editor at Alahram Alyoum newspaper, weekly edition, and a columnist in Le Monde Diplomatique, Arabic Supplement, published in Al-Ahram every Saturday. ElSellami covered the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya for print, television and radio. ElSellami worked very closely with her daughter in covering the Libyan revolution.
Olfa ElSellami describing the experience:
“We covered together the Egyptian revolution (for) 18 days from January 25 to February 11, the day Mubarak stepped down. Then, I joined Samar in covering the Libyan revolution. She decided to go to Benghazi with RTL, the biggest European TV company, just after the uprising began on February 17 after a long debate and quarrels with me and her father, as we refused out of fear. (…). At the end, Samar succeeded to convince us saying that we brought her (up with) freedom and the decision should be hers. She pointed out that it is me who leads her to love her profession and took her when she was only four-years-old for the first time to the Golan Heights among (a) media group campaign to support the issue of return of the occupied Syrian Golan to Syria. At the end, Samar's father agreed to sign the permission for her to travel (…). It was a very difficult time for me. After a week, I decided to accept the mission to cover the revolution for Tunisian State TV channel and AlSahafa daily public newspaper, following my daughter's footsteps. This experience is very different than my entire previous journey. I covered many clashes and wars in Yemen, Sudan including Darfur and south Sudan; I was exposed to traumatic events, however Libya was unique in its dramatic aspects.”
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