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Adham Center Honors Siddiqi,
Graduates
Zafar Siddiqi, chairman
and CEO of CNBC Arabiya, the newest Arabic-language satellite channel to launch
in the region, was guest of honor at this year's Adham Center Annual Awards Dinner,
held to honor new Center graduates this past June.
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Siddiqi was appointed
Associate of the Center, an honorary faculty position, by Dean Amr Mortagy on
the recommendation of Center director Abdallah Schleifer. Dean Mortagy noted that
the launch of CNBC Arabiya was the culmination of a vision made possible by Siddiqi's
combination of two successful careers-as a partner in KPMG Peat Marwick Group
in the Middle East, and as chairman of Television Business Production, which produces
programming for CDNBC, BBC, and other channels. In his response, Siddiqi welcomed
the new graduates to the industry and expressed his confidence that their training
would qualify them to make outstanding contributions to its development.
New graduates Badiaa Abou
Khadra, Dina El Guindy, Lubna El Elaimy, Mohamed Bitar, and Nada El Mesallawy
received from Dean Mortagy their master's degrees in television journalism and
professional certificates for successful completion of Adham Center workshops
in video journalism; Tamer Nasser Aly received his professional certificate. As
the first class to complete an entire academic year of study and work in broadcasting
in Arabic, the six also received a certificate in broadcast Arabic from AUC's
Arabic Language Institute, presented by acting director Zeinab Ibrahim.
Azza Enanie, the Center's
first postgraduate student of an experimental one-year program in television reporting,
also received her diploma, while the Kamal Adham Award for Outstanding Performance
went to the Center's student executive producer, Nada El Mesallawy.
Other industry and public
figures on the dais with Siddiqi were Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council
for Antiquities, Louis Greiss, former editor in chief of Sabah al Khayr magazine,
Ezzat El Shamy, editor in chief of Satellite Guide, and Hussein Amin, chairman
of AUC's Journalism and Mass Communications department.
Welcoming guests, Center
director Abdallah Schleifer first directed their attention to AdhamOnline's new
website, reminding them that this provides a record of the Center's activities
over the years, with thumbnail descriptions of what its staff and graduates have
achieved, profiles of graduates in the news, and other stories.
By
Humphrey Davies
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