Meet MAP Trainers – MAP Academy

Marwan Qadry

Radio Presenter

Marwan Qadry was born on the 19th of July, 1975.
He graduated from the Hebrew Department in the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University. He began his career in tourism and then transitioned into the media. He joined Stars FM in 2004 and ever since then he’s been a radio presenter.

Aya Abdelrahman

News presenter

Aya Abdelrahman is a news presenter. She graduated from Cairo University and began her professional life in broadcasting. She then moved onto Dream’s Television Channel as a correspondent. After working there she continued her career at Al Hadth to work as a news presenter and from there she moved onto her current Job at Al Nahar. She continues to work as a news presenter there

Ahmed Bergawi

TV Director

Egyptian director and producer

Graduated from Academy of arts ( High Institute for cinema 1991 ) and he started his career working as an assistant director with ( Atef Eltayeb )( Essam Elshama) after that he worked as director and head of director department ( ART) for 17 years ( 1993 – 2010 )

in 2005 worked as senior producer at Orbit Elreyadeya for 3 years, from 2008 to 2016 worked as head of the production at Alahly TV

in 2016 worked as project manager at Alnahar TV

in 2017 worked as Senior Director at CBC channel

Now he is Senior Director at Alahly TV

Ahmed Khairy

Radio show presenter

Ali Setohy

Mobile Journalism (MoJo)

Since his graduation in 2007 from The Education collage, majoring in the department of French Language, He started off his career in journalism by producing a series of short documentaries on the internet and “Horytna” radio station, those movies was his gate to be an assistant director and a producer with the director Maha shohba in 5 long Documentaries movies which was aired on el Jazeera channel;. Afterwards he worked as an editor in “El Masry El Youm” sports journal then he was moved to be an online editor for the online “EL Want” newspaper. He produced a multimedia short movie about “Abla Fahita”. He was picked and chosen to be a part of the investigative reporting team in “Akher El Kalam” program with Yousry Fouda on ON TV for 2 years, in the meanwhile he produced 7 investigative reports; “B tam El Mot”, “El Mada 48”, “Asel Mor”, “Atfal El amar”, “Yahdos Fe Eskndrya”, “Atfal Mn Zogag”, “Hayownat Manowya Lel bea”. After the program was stopped from being aired, he produced a lot of reports for Holland Radio station and the program “Makom” with Mona El shazly on CBC , and “Saysa , El Maraa El Hadedya” participated CBC festival and it won the first place in 2015.

Asmaa Youssef

Asma Kandel

talk show Presenter

I received a tutorial in the UAE… And a graduate of mass communication 2004, worked in several areas, most notably in the field of marketing in the UAE army. And also at Viola Media marketing company.

Since my arrival in Cairo, I have joined the ONA Academy of Media Training and joined ONTV in 2013. my work gradually in the television business from a news reporter and then merged between news and coverage and then combining the news work with the program follow on social media program, and then Ramadan baladna, and news work and sports media and sports coverage. And the last of my stations was the morning show ..SABAH ON for more than 18 months… The most important files taken by, Egyptians abroad, and the new government’s projects. Creating and highlighting people with disabilities. And the role of the media in the fight against terrorism.

Dina Elguindy

TV Reporter

Dina Elguindy is an Egyptian TV journalist and reporter currently working for the MBC group on the program “El hekaya with Amr Adeeb”
She holds a Masters and a bachelors degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo, where she graduated top of her class with high honors in 2003. That same year; she won the Mustafa and Ali Amin award for journalism, and started working for the orbit showtime network.
There she occupied the position of TV reporter for their multi prize winning program “Al Qahirah Al youm” presented by Amr Adeeb.
During her years there her reports had been recognized by her peers and several news articles had been written about her work by star journalists.
In 2016 she moved with Amr Adeeb and the crew of “Al Qahirah Al youm” to the ONTV network to start a new program named “Kol Youm”. There she was head of the tv reporting unit. “Kol youm” won best program for the 2 years that it ran, until the presenter and crew embarked on their latest journey to MBC.
She believes that TV reporting is both the most exciting and enjoyable way to experience and tell a story to the audience.

Ehab Sobhy

Acting for adults

Fawzy Esmat

Editing for TV

Fawzy Esmat is one of the talented editors in Egypt, graduated from applied arts with more than 9 years of experience in the media field. Fawzy worked for El Gabry stydio company, medav, OTV media house, sath, makin, uni, yaro media, layalena tv,el hossany company and finally hosany saleh, studio, as he was interested and dedicated to his job Fawzy planned to move on and expand as an editor, fawzy kept on working until he reached ONTV one of the biggest channels in Egypt. Fawzy is also looking forward to share his experience with ONA Academy Team as A trainer for the editing course.

Hassan Fouda

News Presenter

Broadcaster and presenter
Seventeen years of work in the field of media broadcaster and provider programs at Radio Voice of the Arabs then in the news field at the Egyptian channels, and then in a number of Arab TV’s channels such as Kuwait, Sharjah and Saudi Arabia news, practice through art media he work for different types of media as editing and reporting in advance of the programs, and finally ON- TV since 2008 till present. He also made many political programs and economic and talk shows and achieved a large number of information sessions from a number of specialized institutes and most recently cycle oriented media organized by the BBC British cooperation with the European Union. Participated in the training of a large number of reporters and broadcasters and editing.

Hossam Diab

Photography For Journalists

Diab finished his B.A in Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University in 1979, But he started his work as a photojournalist in Alahram newspaper before that in 1977 . In 1980 he became a photo editor in Alshark Alawsat Newspaper. أand continued being a photo editor till 1993 but this year was in Alahram Sports Magazine. In 2004 he became deputy editor In Chief in Almasry Alyoum Newspaper. Now Hossam Diab is a Photo Editor in ONA Media Group.

Diab has been teaching and supervising the birth of promising generations of photographers ,He teaches photojournalism in the open education center, Cairo University, AASTMT., and in 6 of October University.

1985 was Diab’s golden year ,as he was awarded many awards such as Photo prize of Shona festival,Photo prize of general information organization, Best photojournalist in the Arab countries prize from Mostafa Amin group.
In 1990 he won the photo prize of portrait for the first Nile exhibition. And in 1995 he won
the photo prize of union Arab of football association.

He stablished the Egyptian Photojournalist Society in the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists.
And became the chief of it from 2007 till 2015.

Diab participated and established many exhibitions since 1985 inside and outside Egypt, his last exhibition was in Oct. 2016.

Hossam El Din Hussein

TV anchor at ONTV, Hossam El Din Hussein has over six years of experience in the field. In his current role, he is responsible for presenting news bulletins, special coverage, a weekly news show LIVE FROM THE CAPITAL, a morning news show in addition to a weekly special interview program.

In 2012, Hussein was responsible for covering the United States elections; he is also TV producer of Al Soura Al Kamela, an international TV show targeting Arab audiences, targeting the political, economical, and social aspects after the Arab uprisings with special episodes from Gaza-Turkey-USA. In addition Hussein produces a daily program (ALSADA ALMORASHOON) that tackles the presidential elections in Egypt from a sarcastic point of view hosted by Ibrahim Eissa.

Prior to this role, Hussein held various positions at Dream TVsuch as news narrator, VTR producer and supervisor, TV reporter in addition to being the TV program producer for Al AsheraMasaan hosted by Mona El Shazly During the Revolution in addition to special episodes from (Ethiopia-London )

Hussein’s career also included positions at the Middle East News Agency. in addition to. Rotana , New TV, Horytna Radio online

Hussein graduated from the faculty of mass communication at Cairo Universityin 2007. He has participated in various workshops and courses including DW, BBC Arabic course, Aljazeera New Interviews Presenting, in addition to Camera Shooting & TV editing courses.

Hossam Ibrahim

Arabic for Media and Journalism

John Yohanna

TV Camera

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. 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.

Kareem Ramzy

Sports online journalism

Luai Samir

Editing for TV

Luai Samir graduated from Fine Arts , Helwan University year 2004 . He worked since then as a video editor for Video Cairo sat company which is providing TV stations like : ( ZDF, DW-TV, CNN, FRANCE 24, Al Jazeera International ) . He also worked as head editor for important events like ( FIFA Under 20 World Cup 2009 for HBS (Host Broadcast Services) , Egypt’s January 25th Revolution 2011 for for Fox News, Bloomberg, TV3 Barcelona, Swiss TV and Libya and Yemen’s March Revolutions for the German ZDF TV station) . Luai was the video editor of Bassem Yousef show -AL Bernameg – ON-TV ( first season ), editing the episodes which were filmed with Canon 5D cameras outside the studio of the show. Currently Luai is working at ON TV as the editor of programs like ( Alsora Alkamela / Telt Eltalata )

Marina El-Masry

Radio Shows Presenter

Marina Gamil ELMasry Ex Ontv Tv presenter (Follow on tv presenter and news coverages and SabahON morning show presenter) Also radio presenter Marina pedia radio show from Sunday to Thursday from 1 to 3 pm on radio hits 88.2 fm radio el Nile.

Mina Makram

TV Reporter

tv reporter and Journalist.
He graduated with honor from the faculty of Mass-communication, Cairo University, TV and radio department, in 2011 after getting the first prize for his graduation project.
He starts his career as a news editor in different media organizations.
In 2012, he joined Sat-7 Network as a writer and voice over for two years.
In 2014, he joined ON TV Network as a news correspondent for four years where he covered a lot of incidents and current affairs with live reporting and features in addition to many of interviews with the public figures.
In 2014, he traveled to Germany for a traineeship in different German media organizations after getting the first prize for his documentary project in a competition (Road To Germany).
In 2017, He produced and directed a documentary program for Sat-7 Network which called (Christians Of East)
He directed many documentary projects for different organizations.
In 2018, He joined DotDev organization as a senior scriptwriter and voice over.

Mohamed Abdo

News Presenter

an Egyptian news presenter who currently working for Egyptian TV he worked in ONTV for 9 years (2009-2018), one of the biggest news channel in Egypt, Abdou covers a lot of important local and international political events such as Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. Presents many programmes ( Sabah ON – Ramadan Baladna- Outside of Cairo ) Abdou worked for Nile Cultural T.V as a presenter he also introduced different types of programs and conducted interviews on air with many of the Egyptian and Middle East elites. Abdou covered conferences in Kuwait, Syria, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, and Germany. In addition, he also shares the training Misr university for technology and science College Mass Communication. And works as PHD lecturer He had a master’s degree from Mass Communication College Cairo University year 2010. He also held PHD certificate from Cairo University Mass Communication College year 2018

Mohamed Eldousky Roshdy

Talkshow presenter

Egyptian journalist and presenter

Graduated from the mass of communication at Cairo University in 2004
He then started his way in the field of media where he trained in a number of Egyptian newspapers such as Elakhbar and the magazine of October and Al-Ahram and the magazine of Nesf Eldonia.
Roshdy became a member of the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate. He also worked as a secretary to the editor in chief at Al-Dustour newspaper from 2005 to October 2006. He was the youngest editor in the Egyptian press, where he worked in this position at the age of twenty-one.
He also worked as the editor of Al Dustour newspaper from October 2006 until October 2008.
He participated in the establishment and management of Elyoum Elsaba the first electronic news website in the Middle East and the Arab world, and worked as a general manager to edit the various publications of the institution, whether its website or newspaper printed from 2008 until the end of 2012.
Participated in several training courses in television stations and American newspapers, including a training course in the Danish newspaper.
He covered the recent US elections and Danish parliamentary elections in 2007 and 2011.

He became a program presenter for the first time in Elkahera Elyoum Program in November 2013, Presenter of the press section and co-presenter of the program with the announcer Shafaki Al-Muniri, and then presented several programs (Al-Sahafa al-Youm, Akher al-Nahar, and Oser al-Kalam).
Now he is the executive editor in chief at Elyoum Elsaba foundation.

Mohamed Elshazly

News Presenter

Elshazly is a TV Presenter
He is a professional with a long and wide experience in media field.
• He worked as a TV Reporter for Kuwait TV in 2012
• From 2013 to 2016 , he worked as a Political News Anchor at Al Baghdadia TV channel, during this period he performed the following tasks:
– Daily coverage of events with correspondents.
-Explain security events.
-Review newspapers news.
– Demonstrate scenarios for different events on the display screen and other tasks.
• Mohamed joined to ONTV team from its launch in 2017 as a TV Anchor, he did many tasks during that period such as:
-Present major news bulleting and news coverage.
-Present sports bulleting.
-Present “follow on” a TV program that focuses on social media
-Coverage of the last Arab summit from Riyadh.
-Present “Manchet” a TV program.
-Coverage of the last Egyptian presidential elections (2018)

Mohamed El Kholy

TV Reporter

he worked as a TV reporter in AlHurra channel since 2014 in (Street Pulse) show, he has 7 years of experience in media that started in 2009 as a producer in ONTV channel for (Bel Masry AlFasih) show hosted by Reem Maguid, Then he shifted his career to be a reporter for various shows in ONTV such as (Baldna BelMasry) hosted by Reem Maguid and (AkherKalam) hosted by Yousry Fouda.
Kholy was also a TV reporter covering live all of the 25th of Jan revolution events, and he was the only official reporter in the Egyptian Presidency through-out the rule of Mohamed Morsi and the start of president AbdelFattah elSiSi’s rule. Kholy has worked as a freelance in DW Arabic channel for 6 months.

Nezar Shaker

Lighting Techniques

Rana Adel Ghaly

voice coaching

Started a career in Media, dubbing, program hosting, acting and singing at an early age. Studied Mass Communication (Radio
and TV) in Cairo University. Studied singing at the Opera with Dr. Sobhy Bidair, a former member of Maestro Nayer Nagy’s
choir “Cairo Celebration Choir” and currently studying a 3 years diploma for singing and teaching singing in Denmark.
Worked in Media production, script writing and film directing training. Directed short movies, produced short films and online
series, also hosted programs for Radio & TV. Working as a musical director and vocal coach for groups and individuals, singing
for Radio and TV ads, dubbing cartoon characters and voice overs.
Vocal Coaching:
• Worked with choirs, solo singers, dubbing actors and voice over talents inside and outside Egypt to enhance their
vocal techniques. The course objective is to equip them to have a healthy technique that allows them to gain more
power, have control over their voice and help perform in different ways.

Musical Directing:

• Harvey Street Kids series (Dreamworks)
• Vamperina series (Disney)
• Penn Zero (Disney)
• Barbie Rock and Royals Film (Mattel)
• Tangled series (Disney)
• Radio Jingles and opening vocals for Miracle Channel
• Album “Elly Yeta’alak Beek” for Geel Gedeed Band

Program Hosting & Acting Experience:

• Hosted a children’s program for CBN (Virginia, USA)
• Hosted an educational program for parenting “Kalam mesh Eib”
• Hosted live interviews, youth and children’s programs and contests.
• Representative of Media and singing projects in London, Norway and Thailand.
• Hosting a weekly live TV program on SAT7 “Hanrannem Tany”

Sayed Mahmoud

Voice Coaching

Graduated from mass communication Cairo University, Sayed Mahmoud work as a Presenter and news reader at ONTV, Senior producer at RADIO and TV UNION, sayed expanded his profession as a Lecturer at ADHAM CENTER JOURNALIST AT AUC, also he joined MASS COMMUNICATION as a lecturer for TV AND RADIO SECTION AT CAIRO UNIVERSITY he planned many social marketing campaigns.

Shahira Fouad

The Little actor

• Bachelor of Media Cairo University Department of Radio and Television / Bachelor of Arts Theater Department of acting and direction
• She works as an actress at the Ministry of Culture’s art House
• She has performed many plays for the independent teams and the State Theater
• She participated in many television series, the most important ” اوان الورد ، أماكن في القلب ، لحظات حرجة ، كفر عسكر، بابا نور ، حارة العوانس ، ساخرة الجنوب ” and others.
• She has starred in a number of Christian religious films.
• She made a voice over on a huge number of documentary films and advertisements
• She has dubbed a huge number of films, dramas, and cartoons
• she has worked as an acting trainer for many years

Sherif Fathy

Documentary Filmmaking

Sherif Fathy Salem is a film producer/director and lecturer in filmmaking. He’s a certified EU AudioVisual expert and member of the European Documentary Network & the Italian independent producers association. He trains and teaches in the American university of Rome and Misr international university & Ona professional media academy in Cairo. The latest short film he produced; “Il Passo” was premiered in Venice film festival 2017. His filmography includes titles such as Cinema Memory | 50′ | 2016, People of the Walls | 90′ | 2015, That Alexandria | 78′ | 2013, The Italians of Egypt | 80′ | 2011 and Clandestini | 50′ | 2009. In 2005 he founded SPOT1.tv as an independent film production house in Italy where he moved in 1997 to join ART satellite network as a producer, director and host. He lives between Rome and Cairo where he was born and pursued his university studies first in Architecture 1990, then in Film Directing 1994.

Tarek Saeed

Tarek Saed is a writer and director of film and theater, he is a graduate of the Higher Institute of Cinema, department of directing.
He is the founder and director of band “Aldo2”, he also one of the founders of the independent theater movement and participated in all its activities since 1990 until now.
In theater, he wrote and directed a number of performance such as “Alrehany Albade3” “Kawkab Do3’ry” “Ares Lbnt Alsolatn” and “Fatafet Almas”.
In cinema, he wrote scenario and directed a number of short, long and documentary films such as “Bnat Al3’ia” and “Kdis Drau”.
On radio he directed the voice acting for a number of Dinsney cartoons and Spanish drama such as “kena3 zoro”, besides ” kesas Alnesa2 Feh Al Quran” “3ga2eb Alkesas feh Al Quran” “Kesas Alayat feh Al Quran” with the artist Yehia AlFkhrany.
He also participated as a trainer in a number of training workshops for the writing and directing in theater

Zeyad Salem

Multimedia Journalism

Zeyad Salem is a multimedia producer based in Cairo, Egypt. He has an MA in Multimedia Journalism (Broadcast) from the University of Westminster in London, UK. He worked in Egypt as a producer for ONTV and a founding producer for CBC-Extra. He worked on Multimedia projects in Germany, Greece, and London. A founding member of the Cultural Innovators’ Network (CIN) and a Chevening Alumni. Online Portfolio https://www.clippings.me/zeyadsalem