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Australian Egyptian Youth Forum
As Chair of the Australian Egyptian Youth Forum, it’s my pleasure to pursue our organisational aims of…
United Nations Association of Australia April newsletter
The United Nations Association of Australia is one of the peak advocacy bodies for the United Nations…
Caritas News Spring
This year’s “Women Leading Communities” edition of CaritasNews explores women’s empowerment across communities, through programs made possible by your…
New York Times and other good news!
Telling the truth with compassion. In the humanitarian and international development sector where I work, it can…
Here Here come the Habibs too much for white TV?
Have you heard of Channel 9‘s new TV comedy “Here come the Habibs?” Some people say it’s…
Bulldogs win helps restore community spirit
This piece also appears in the Wednesday October 1 edition of the Bankstown, Canterbury Torch. Though team spirit…
Journalism Teaching
I’ve been busy with applications, my enormous success in journalism is impending and inevitable. Note my humility:…
SBS Cadetship submitted, and now WE PRAY
Australia’s Multicultural Broadcasting Service, SBS, is offering two full time cadetships, and I have thrown my name…
SBS Cadetship Update
Meeting with a journalist friend tomorrow to discuss my upcoming SBS news room application. The SBS logo:…
Pharoah vs The Egyptians
There have been many commentaries on the uprisings which ousted Hosni Mubarak from the Presidency in January…
CYC news: Australian Election
My latest CYC news segment has gone to air. Top headlines: • His Holiness, Pope Tawadros (Coptic…
SBS Cadetship!
Australia’s “Special Broadcasting Service,” whose newsroom I have nurtured a sincere love for in my earnest little…
Sydney Coptic Community Prayer event
Well, I’m trying to post more consistently about my pursuit of a career in the media (taking…
CYC news and me
Hi subscribers! I’ve lately been presenting and producing news for CYC, Christian Youth Channel, in my pursuit…
Egypt in 2 minutes: What you need to know
My brief run down of confusion, disagreement and misrepresentation, or “Egypt in 2 minutes: everything you need…
Go to Egypt!
Tourism in the Middle East has taken a dive turn since the Arab Spring (or was it an Arab Winter? OH YES. OH YES THEY’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND THEY’LL SAY IT AGAIN UNTIL THE END OF TIME)
Egypt in stagnation
Cairo had sunk into a hopeless morass of gridlocked traffic and teeming humanity—12 million people squeezed into a narrow band of land bordering the Nile River, most living cheek by jowl in ramshackle tenements in the city’s ever-expanding slums.”
The Constitution
Egyptian president Muhammad Mursi’s new constitution, and the place that Tahrir Square protests have taken in Egypt today. My thoughts.
Your news, my way
I presented the news for Coptic Youth Channel last week, you may like to get up to speed on Middle Eastern politics as well as news closer to your home!
Inspired by Walkleys
After watching yesterday’s Australian Walkley Awards, I’m full of Journalistic fervour. Joanne Mcarthey’s story at the relatively…




