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Badiaa Abou Khadra graduated from the American University in Cairo's Journalism and Mass Communication School in June 2001 and joined the Adham Center Television Journalism the following fall as the recipient of the Sheikh Kamal Adham fellowship for non-Egyptian-in her case Palestinian-students. While at the Center, she also worked as director Abdallah Schleifer's Personal Assistant, an experience from which she believes she learnt a great deal. According to Abou Khadra, the Adham Center program offers its students a new vision, as it enables them to discover new aspects of life through covering different stories in varied fields. Among the TV news stories Abou Khadra has worked on so far as a graduate student in the Center are the restoration of the tent makers' street in Islamic Cairo, the National Geographic Institute's attempt to discover the hidden gate of the pyramids, and a story on tourism in Egypt.

Last year, Abou Khadra represented both AUC and Palestine as a member of the International Youth Forum group that interviewed US Secretary of State Colin Powell live on MTV from five different world capitals including Cairo. And she was one of the two students in the group of 20 in Cairo chosen to ask the Secretary of State a question. Abou Khadra did not pull her punches: she asked Mr. Powell what provision would be made for the Palestinian refugees in President Bush's vision of a region at peace, and for an answer received a license in high diplomatic ambiguity. Abou Khadra also interviewed Heinz Nussbaumer, journalist and Orientalist and former spokesman for the Austrian President, during his visit to Cairo, in an Adham Center Studio Interview taped and broadcast by AUC TV.