Adham Center News

Faculty, Students Take Part in Arab-US Communication Conference

OCT. 29, 1999 Adham Center and journalism department faculty and students were especially active in this year’s meeting of the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators, “Communication for the 21st Century: Building a Civil Society,” held Oct. 26-29 at Lebanese American University in Beirut.

On a panel dealing with the Arab role in global civil society, Adham Center Senior Associate Hussein Amin discussed Nilesat as a means of empowering the region with the information and knowledge needed to contribute to civil society. Sarah Sullivan, managing editor of the Adham Center’s online journal Transnational Broadcasting Studies, used the case study of TBS to discuss electronic journals as a new medium. Shems Friedlander, who is creative director of TBS and director of AUC’s Apple Center for Graphic Communications, looked at graffiti as a means of public communication in Egypt.

Many AUC graduate students under the tutelage of Dr. Amin, including Adham Center student Mahitab Ezz El Din, also presented their research at the conference.

Amin, who serves on the AUSACE board of directors, organized last year’s AUSACE conference, which was held at Shepheard’s hotel in Cairo.