Work Experience

January 2009 – Present

       Erudition Media Group

       Cairo Correspondent / Managing Editor

·          Writing monthly columns and Middle East, African and world news articles

·          Senior consultancy role at Group level for management decisions

·          As of February 2011: Managing Editor role reforming structure of the Board of Directors, leading the group of 150 staff, leading editors towards the launch of two new websites.

May 2010 – October 2010

       Egypt Today & Business Today magazines

       Associate Editor / Copy Chief

·          Editing political and business articles, both macro and micro

·          Creating and modifying style guide and proofreading procedures, and applying them across the publications

·          Researching, creating and helping to design infographics

·          InDesign modifications

·          Recruitment and training of proofreaders

December 2009 – May 2010

       Egypt Today & Business Today magazines

       Proofreader

·          Editing and proofing articles for both current affairs and business titles for monthly publications

·          Writing and editing page furniture

March 2009 – May 2010

       Sports and Fitness Magazine Egypt & HE Magazine Egypt

       Staff Writer / Copy Editor

·          Writing a range articles on a range of current affairs topics, covering press conferences on a variety of sporting and political events

·          Sub-editing copy from a variety of styles of writer

·          Working on designed pages within InDesign

February 2009 – June 2009

       The Egyptian Gazette & The Egyptian Mail

       Proofreader

·          Sub-editing articles from a variety of writers with different levels of English

·          Working on both daily and weekly newspapers

·          Editorial control to remove articles or content from the newspaper

June 2008 – January 2009

       Erudition Media Group

       Issues Director

·          Deciding editorial content for a range of monthly publications, both online and print

·          Recruiting and training new editorial and writing staff

·          Deputy managing staff and publication to deadlines

June 2008 – July 2008

BBC News Online

Blast Intern

·          Researching and writing article for BBC News website

·          BBC journalism training with news team

·          Feature published with article, Voxpop and Have Your Say elements.

September 2007 – June 2008

      Erudition News Group

       Editor in Chief

·          Running a team of editors, regarding both content and management

·          Developing new House Style

·          Writing editorials and articles

Freelance Work

January 2011 – Present

CI-Capital Holding

Editing Consultant

May 2010 – Present

Demand Media Studios

Freelance Writer

November 2010 – Present

CID Consulting

Editing Consultant

August 2010 – November 2010

Boston Consulting Group

Editing Consultant on the Cairo 2050 project

Education

September 2005 – June 2008

University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, UK

      BA in Politics and International Relations – 2: I

September 2003 – August 2005

East Norfolk Sixth Form College, Gorleston, Norfolk, UK

A-Levels: Law – A, Accounting – C, Philosophy - C

September 1998 – August 2003

Cliff Park High School, Gorleston, Norfolk, UK

GCSEs: 10 Grade A

Other Skills

·          Full, clean UK driving license

·          Basic Arabic

·          Fully computer literate, including essential InDesign, comprehensive knowledge of Mac and Windows systems and various Linux distributions