Naila Nabil Hamdy, Lecturer in Journalism and Mass Communication at AUC, is a 1996 graduate of the Adham Center for Television Journalism. She is also a television journalist who has covered numerous news events for a variety of prominent international television stations.

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Hamdy also has experience in other areas of mass communications: advertising, development communication, documentary film production and radio broadcasting. She has conducted workshops in online journalism and computer-assisted reporting in both newsrooms and educational institutions. She is a frequent speaker on a range of issues, including trends affecting journalism, technology and convergence, the Internet for journalists, the Internet as a publishing medium for journalists, cyber communities, media and democracy, and television news coverage of the Middle East.

Hamdy joined the faculty at AUC in 1997. During that year she taught courses in the television journalism masters degree program. She has since then taught or continues to teach courses in diverse areas of Journalism and Mass Communications including reporting, editing and design, television news production, electronic newsgathering, new media studies, and communication theory, and has also developed and introduced the first online journalism course at the American University in Cairo. In fact she can be described as a journalism professor specializing in training young journalists to speak the different media "languages" of print, broadcast and new media.

Hamdy's research interests include Information Communication Technologies, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Journalism, and Development Communication. She has conducted studies on Egyptian news websites, Egyptian Internet users, Islamic websites, and the use of the Internet in development. Hamdy received her BA in Communication Arts (Mass Media studies) from the University of San Francisco, California, and her MA from the American University in Cairo, and is currently enrolled at Cairo University as a Ph.D. candidate. She has also attended a training course on teaching techniques and strategies for online journalism and computer assisted reporting at the Poynter Institute, Florida.

She is a member of several professional associations including the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA) and the Arab-United States Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE). She is a contributing editor to the electronic journal Transnational Broadcasting Studies(TBS).

Hamdy is an Egyptian national who was born in Japan and has lived in Panama, Cuba, England, Holland, the USA and Egypt. She is the mother of two children.
http://www.aucegypt.edu/nhamdy/bio.html