Summary
Sabah Hamamou (صباح حمامو) is an Egyptian journalist, the acting head of business section at Al-Ahram[1][2]
Professional edit
Hamamou started her career in 1994 as a general assignment trainee reporter at one of Al-Ahram's publications, the monthly Al-Shabab magazine, while at the same time attending Cairo University. After she obtained a BA in Arabic and literature in 1997, she decided to dedicate her career to journalism. In addition to working for Al-Shabab, she began to write pieces for the Saudi Al-Jazeera, a world-famous daily newspaper, Al-Maraa Al-Youm, an independent Emirati weekly magazine, and Al-Qahira, an Egyptian government owned weekly newspaper, as well as other publications.
In 2003, she was offered a permanent position at Al-Ahram's daily newspaper as a staff writer in the business section. Despite having no previous experience in business journalism, Although she began her career in print-media, she occasionally produces video reports and maintains a blog and professional profiles on various social media networks.
Egyptian Revolution edit
Hamamou covered the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 for the Al-Ahram website and for her own online channel Masrawyya, Al-Ahram wrote a piece on Masrawyya calling it The Revolution Channel
Sabah Hamamou became a frequent commentator on Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and on Media in Egypt, she was Interviewed by BBC[3] and Newsweek [4] Time,[5] the Wall Street Journal,[6] The World [7] and Associated Press.[8] She also wrote for Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism Egyptian Journalism: An Oddly Connected Mix of Old and New Media
Book Author and a Publisher edit
Hamamou wrote the book Memoirs of a journalist at Al-Ahram,[9] in June 2012, to speak up about how Al-Ahram was managed under Mubarak regime, the first such account [10] by a journalist at Al-Ahram since it was founded in 1876.
In May 2013 she founded Ha'aa (حاء), a publishing house to support the values of The Egyptian Revolution, 'Right', ' Right of life', ' Freedom', all the words would start in Arabic with the very same letter ( ح ) which happen to be the first letter of Sabah Hamamou Family name ( حمامو)
Honors edit
She has received several awards and fellowships for her work in journalism, including:
Best Journalist Certificate of Merit from Al- Ahram Regional Institute For Journalism, 2003.
Middle East and North Africa Media Fellowship from Northwestern University, 2006.
Knight Wallace Fellowship, University of Michigan: In 2010, Hamamou was the first Egyptian journalist to be awarded this prestigious Fellowship.
References edit
- ^ "Sabah Hamamou - Nieman - Harvard.edu". nieman.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ^ "Home". ahram.org.eg.
- ^ "Turmoil at Egypt's Al-Ahram paper", BBC News, 2011-02-18, retrieved 2018-05-25
- ^ "The Daily Beast". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ http://world.time.com/2012/08/28/shades-of-mubarak-egyptian-journalists-chafe-under-media-controls/TheTime [dead link]
- ^ Bradley, Matt; Luhnow, David (2011-03-10). "Egyptians Take On 'Mini-Mubaraks'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ The World
- ^ AP,
- ^ "Book Review: An insider's view of Al-Ahram - Review - Books - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ "Egyptian journalist Sabah Hamamou : I wrote a " Tell-All " book about al Ahram because I care about this institution | 4M le Blog | par CFI". Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-08-06.