WORK EXPERIENCE:

Non-E Medical Dispatcher at HORIZON TRANSPORT, Los Angeles | Feb 2025 - Until Now

Receive emergency and non-emergency calls and assess the situation's nature and urgency.

Project Manager at Studio Place, Maryland | Jun 2023 - Dec 2024 (Remote)

Skilled in leading teams, managing budgets, and delivering projects on time and within scope.

Oct 2019 - March 2023 | Co-Founder / Director of 6 Bab Sharq Art Space - Goethe Institute Alexandria.

Initiating and setting goals for programs according to the strategic objectives of the organisation. Planning the programs from start to completion involves deadlines, milestones, processes, and approving budgets and operations.

Jan 2018 - Mar 2019 | Art Director at Content Group, Cairo.

Responsible for the overall visual aspects of advertising, and media campaigns, and coordinator for works of other artistic staff.

June 2016 - Dec 2016 | Media Producer at Save the Children / UNHCR, Cairo.

Responsible for providing technical and administrative support to the Communications Division.

Jan 2015 - May 2016 | Product Photographer at Souq.com (AMAZON EGYPT), Cairo.

Responsible for taking shots of products, creating promotional materials, collaborating with creative directors, and using editing techniques.

May 2013 - Dec 2014 | Video Editor at Abda Creative Agency, Cairo.

Responsible for editing recorded raw material, including camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics, and special effects.

Oct 2012 - Apr 2013 | Photojournalist & Video Journalist at Thomson Reuters Foundation, Cairo.

After Jan 25th revolution, Aswat Masriya were an online news service by Thomson Reuters offering accurate, unbiased and impartial news and analysis on events related to Egypt at that time.

April 2012 - Oct 2012 | Video Journalist at Elbadil News Paper, Cairo.

Responsible for producing and writing the news, setting up interviews, choosing shooting locations, investigating data from various sources, operating the camera, and Edit Videos.

Jan 2012 - Mar 2012 | Photographer & Videographer at Horytna.com, Alexandria.

Responsible for producing the news, setting up interviews, and shooting videos.

FELLOWSHIPS | CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS:

2023 | Washington D.C. US | The Professional Fellows Program | Educational/exchange program Funded by the U.S. Department of State and designed to promote mutual understanding, enhance leadership and professional skills, and build lasting, sustainable partnerships between mid-level emerging leaders in the MENA region and the USA.
2022 | Malmö, Sweden | Room to Bloom Festival | Artistic festival brings together artists who create ecological and postcolonial narratives of Europe. By associating artists and creators who – too often – occupy a peripheral place in the world of arts and places considered geographically peripheral.
2022 | Marseille, France | Art for Clim'Act - Les Têtes de l'Art | Exchange programme to act against the socioeconomic impacts of climate change by creating an artistic, participative, and common awareness campaign in all of the Mediterranean. Led by duos of artists and activists in Egypt, France, Greece, and Tunisia, Art for Clim'Act aims at creating a space for dialogue between civil society and policymakers by fostering advocacy around environmental issues.
2022 | Spain | CREACT4MED | Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association | A project that aims to strengthen businesses in the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in the Southern Neighbourhood of the EU, with a particular focus on young people and women.
2021 | Amman, Jordan | Tandem 360° | MitOst e.V. and Germany's Federal Foreign Office. Tandem 360° is a one-year cultural exchange programme that offers a space to experiment with multidisciplinary project ideas, ecosystem mapping, and inventive approaches to create change through culture.
2020 | Siwa Oasis, Egypt | Mind the Gap | National Museums of World Culture. A creative residency program led by the National Museums of World Culture (Sweden) to facilitate inclusion, equality, intercultural dialogue, and active citizenship through digital storytelling and performance arts.
2013 | Cairo, Egypt | Art Mediation | Out Of The Circle, supported by IFA. The project trained and mentored 20 youth artists and curators to deliver art workshops for children in underprivileged communities of Cairo and Alexandria, held in November 2013.

Education:

2022 | Devos institute for arts management | The Cycle.

2019 | Goethe-Institut Egypt | ALEXANDRIA CULTURAL GARAGE.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED:

2022 | Sidon, Lebanon & Alexandria, Egypt | Hakaya Al-Azraq | Group Audio-Visual Exhibition | Ishbilia Theatre and Art-Hub & Greenish Egypt.

2019 | Alexandria | Isolated In The City | Group Photography Exhibition, Co-curated with Mostafa Ismail | 6 Bab Sharq Art & Culture Space.