Meet MAP Team

John yohanna

General Manager

John Youhanna is a prominent DOP. He is not only professional with a long and wide experience, but he is also passionate about his profession and about transferring his knowledge and experience to others, especially the young generations. John was the Head of ENG Crews at ONTV Network, starting 2007 until 2018.

Starting May 2013, he is a main Trainer and Instructor at ONA Academy a. Starting September 2014 he is working as DOP at DW TV. He started his career in 2003 as a cameraman with several Egyptian, regional and international TV networks, channels and news agencies, such asZDF, Dubai TV, France 24, LBC, JSC Sports, Video Cairo and CNC News Agencies. He also worked as a DOP and Cameraman in some of the well-known TV Shows, such as SNL Arabic, EIBernamg, Sahbet El Saada, Ard Kibeer, Oxygen, Shabana, Hokomit Nos Elleil and Gamea Mooanath Salem. The field of Documentaries is one of his favorite fields, where he excelled as a DOP of a wide range of documentaries produced by ONTV, CNN Espagnol, DW Arabic andHotspot Production House.

John is a graduate of the Faculty of Applied Art, department of cinema photography in 2001. Since then,

he never stopped improving his skills and tools by a series of training courses and workshops and he is certified by some of the most regionally and internationally recognized academies and training centers, among them: DW Akademie, ORF and ARIJ, especially in the fields of News Production and Investigative Journalism.

Aya Abd El-Nasser

Executive Manager

Aya Abd El-Nasser graduated from faculty of mass communication – Cairo University, PR & Advertising department. Aya started off as an online editor with Middle East Broadcasting Company (MBC) for 2 years, and then she went on writing her own blogs about social and political field. She also worked as an executive secretary and supervisor for graphic designing in an advertising company. she also worked as an Executive Manager at ONA Academy for 5 years.Aya currently working as an Executive Manager at Map Academy. She is responsible for courses quality, and she is the link between the academy departments and the management.
She enjoys reading and writing.

Executive Manager

Marina Gabr

Senior Executive Marketer

Marina Gabr is an Executive Marketer at MAP Academy. She graduated from mass communications Cairo University majored in Radio&TV department. She graduated with Excellent GPA at 2017. She also have a certification of script writing at LEO Media Production Company, and a Diploma in Social Media Marketing from Shaw Academy 2016 as well as a Diploma in Camera Techniques.

She worked as an editor at many online journalism (Egypt bank Union gate, Masrawy, Veto gate and Horytana) and worked as a presenter at Radio E3lam online. Also trained at Rotana Channel as a TV reporter.

Omar El-Hamshary

Executive Marketer

Germin Ibrahem

Head of planning and production

Germein Ibrahim is the head of planning and production at MAP Academy, She graduated from Faculty of Mass Communication, Radio & TV department, very good with honor degree, Her graduation project was a documentary film about children who live in the graveyard and their suffering, this project took the second level. She also participated in Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival.
After graduation she started her career at ONA Academy as a senior producer for two years, then she moved to ONLIVE channel and worked as a reporter, for three years she participated in covering a lot of events in Egypt like presidential election and Alexandria Youth Forum besides interviewing a number of Egyptian, Arab and international figures.

Mohamed Mohsen

Senior Producer

graduated from Must University Mass Communication Department, he worked at ONA academy as a head of production, throughout this period he also participated in a number of projects as a director and producer for three documentaries films in Berlin under “ Road To Germany” competition and project “ 3eshna we shofna 2030”, he also worked as assistant director in program “lesa elhkaya”, as a director at golden take production house and as an assistant producer in Program “ma’kom Mona Elshazly”.

Ahmed Tantawy

Producer

He graduated from the faculty of Information System with a very good score, he worked in “Resala” charity in the public relation department, and he had training in ONTV in the social media department. Ha have always had this passion of developing himself in the field of Information Technology as well as in the media. Currently I am taking the “MCSE” course from Microsoft.

Sherif Sobhy

Head of photography department

Omar Shosha

Cameraman

Bishoy Nasser

Cameraman

Graduated from the high institute of applied arts (photography, cinema, and TV department), worked for several TV channels such as ONTV and CBC covering various aspects in the field of TV production inside and outside Egypt (Uganda and Palestine) including news, sports, entertainment, live events, and interviews. he made many documentaries as a DOP such as Elwady Elgdid and Nour magazine. he worked as a focus puller in the TV series (Taa’m Elhayah)

Nour-mina Salama

Soundman

Romany Helmy

Soundman

Marketing Communications Department

Production & Planning Department

Photography Department