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05-16-2008, 10:04 AM
Submitted by Lawrence Pintak
PRESS RELEASE FROM AUC
Cairo –The American University in Cairo has announced that the Center for Electronic Journalism is changing its name and launching a new two-year Master’s degree in Television and Digital Journalism.
The Center will now be called the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research, in recognition of a $5 million contribution from Faisal Adham in the name of his late father.
“We are very grateful for this donation and pleased to be able to honor Sheikh Kamal, who had a long and valued relationship with AUC,” said AUC President David Arnold. Kamal Adham served on the AUC Board of Trustees from 1982 until his death in 1999.
The contribution will be used for construction of state-of-the-art digital training facilities on the new 260-acre AUC campus in New Cairo, and to establish a $4 million endowment to support continued operations of the Center. Classes at the new campus begin in the fall of 2008.
“The late Sheikh Kamal Adham would have certainly been proud of the success Adham Center has achieved up until today since AUC was at the top of his priorities,” said his son, Faisal Adham, “ I assure you I will continue supporting this center and this great institution.”
During his lifetime, Sheikh Kamal Adham provided extensive support for the Center, which was founded in 1987, and, for many years, was called the Kamal Adham Center for Television Journalism. The expansion of the Center’s mission beyond television led to a name change earlier in this decade. Alumni of the Center include many of the top figures in Arab journalism.
“We are very proud to once more have the Adham name associated with the Center; it is the name by which we are known around the world,” said Center Director Lawrence Pintak. “The addition of ‘training and research’ better communicates our broad mission to help foster Arab journalism among both students and working journalists.”
AUC also announced it is now taking applications for a new two-year MA in Television and Digital Journalism, which will be launched in the fall.
“It is no longer enough just to be able to report for one medium,” according to Pintak. “This degree expands the focus of our existing degree from television journalism to include online journalism and other forms of digital media. It will better prepare our students for the new shape of Arab journalism in the 21st century.”
The MA is designed for working journalists interested in expanding their skills, as well as recent graduates from undergraduate programs. Classes are offered in late afternoon and evening.
Applications are currently being accepted for fall 2008. For details visit www.adhamonline.com.
Along with the MA, the Adham Center runs a variety of external journalism training programs and publishing projects, including the online journal Arab Media & Society (http://www.arabmediasociety.org/) and http://www.mogtamana.org/ (http://egyptcivilsociety.org/), a news and information portal about Egyptian civil society.
PRESS RELEASE FROM AUC
Cairo –The American University in Cairo has announced that the Center for Electronic Journalism is changing its name and launching a new two-year Master’s degree in Television and Digital Journalism.
The Center will now be called the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research, in recognition of a $5 million contribution from Faisal Adham in the name of his late father.
“We are very grateful for this donation and pleased to be able to honor Sheikh Kamal, who had a long and valued relationship with AUC,” said AUC President David Arnold. Kamal Adham served on the AUC Board of Trustees from 1982 until his death in 1999.
The contribution will be used for construction of state-of-the-art digital training facilities on the new 260-acre AUC campus in New Cairo, and to establish a $4 million endowment to support continued operations of the Center. Classes at the new campus begin in the fall of 2008.
“The late Sheikh Kamal Adham would have certainly been proud of the success Adham Center has achieved up until today since AUC was at the top of his priorities,” said his son, Faisal Adham, “ I assure you I will continue supporting this center and this great institution.”
During his lifetime, Sheikh Kamal Adham provided extensive support for the Center, which was founded in 1987, and, for many years, was called the Kamal Adham Center for Television Journalism. The expansion of the Center’s mission beyond television led to a name change earlier in this decade. Alumni of the Center include many of the top figures in Arab journalism.
“We are very proud to once more have the Adham name associated with the Center; it is the name by which we are known around the world,” said Center Director Lawrence Pintak. “The addition of ‘training and research’ better communicates our broad mission to help foster Arab journalism among both students and working journalists.”
AUC also announced it is now taking applications for a new two-year MA in Television and Digital Journalism, which will be launched in the fall.
“It is no longer enough just to be able to report for one medium,” according to Pintak. “This degree expands the focus of our existing degree from television journalism to include online journalism and other forms of digital media. It will better prepare our students for the new shape of Arab journalism in the 21st century.”
The MA is designed for working journalists interested in expanding their skills, as well as recent graduates from undergraduate programs. Classes are offered in late afternoon and evening.
Applications are currently being accepted for fall 2008. For details visit www.adhamonline.com.
Along with the MA, the Adham Center runs a variety of external journalism training programs and publishing projects, including the online journal Arab Media & Society (http://www.arabmediasociety.org/) and http://www.mogtamana.org/ (http://egyptcivilsociety.org/), a news and information portal about Egyptian civil society.