Detroit Chapter
Detroit Chapter
Atef A. Hassan, President (Detroit) [email protected]
Laila Alhusini, Vice President (Detroit) [email protected]
Mohamed Abdulzaher (Detroit)
Hossam Abdelkader (Detroit)
Adel A. Mozip (Detroit)
Khalil E. Hachem (Detroit)
Delinda Curtiss Hanley (Washington D.C.)
Atef Gawad (Detroit)
Marwa Macboul (Detroit)
Sahar Khamis (Detroit)
iNAAJA Detroit Contacts
Atef A. Hassan
Mohamed Abdulzaher
Hossam Abdelkader
Deputy Editor of October Magazine. Chief in Editor of US Arab Radio website. Chief Editor of Amwague online newspaper www.amwague.com. Media Consultant at Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Cultural activity Supervisor at Bibliotheca Alexandrina Book Fair since 2009. Writer at Al-Ahram Web at www.gate.ahram.org.eg. Freelance writer for several Egyptian and Arabic newspapers and websites. An active member at the Egyptian Journalists’ syndicate. Electronic press specialist and media training instructor at Alexandria University. Have several researches and studies in the fields of Digital Culture and Internet. Electronic Press Specialist and Media trainer at Alexandria University.
Adel A. Mozip
Khalil E. Hachem
Atef Gawad
Marwa Macboul
Laila Alhusinni
Sahar Khamis (Ph.D.) Board Member
Bio: Dr. Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an expert on Arab and Muslim media, and the former Head of the Mass Communication and Information Science Department in Qatar University.
Dr. Khamis holds a Ph.D. in Mass Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester in England. She is a former Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. She is the co-author of the books: “Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and “Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Additionally, she authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, regionally and internationally, in both English and Arabic.
She is the recipient of a number of prestigious academic and professional awards, as well as a member of the editorial boards of several journals in the field of communication, in general, and the field of Arab and Muslim media, in particular. Dr. Khamis is a media commentator and analyst, a public speaker, a human rights commissioner in the Human Rights Commission in Montgomery County, Maryland, and a radio host, who presents a monthly radio show on “U.S. Arab Radio” (the first Arab-American radio station broadcasting in the U.S. and Canada).
iNAAJA Washington D.C. Leadership
Delinda Curtiss Hanley
Delinda Curtiss Hanley is news editor and executive director of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a 76-page nearly monthly magazine with the largest circulation of any Middle East related publication in North America. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, features insightful analysis of the political, economic, and historical realities of the U.S.-Middle East relationship. Each colorful issue is packed with special reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq, current Middle East issues and grassroots activism in the U.S. and abroad. The magazine is important to every Muslim- and Arab-American organization because it is the only publication that reports on every group’s symposiums, lectures, dialogues and activities. The magazine also focuses on U.S. lobbying groups involved in crafting U.S. policy.
Delinda Hanley spent most of her childhood in the Middle East accompanying her foreign service officer father Richard Curtiss, co-founder of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. After attending the American University in Washington, DC, and American University of Beirut, she earned a degree in education from the University of Maryland. She joined the Peace Corps and taught English in the Sultanate of Oman. She stayed for three additional years to work in the Musandam Province of Oman as a consultant for a development project. After several years of teaching in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom, she returned the United States in 1988 to work as an editor and picture researcher for a publisher of historical magazines. In 1996 she came to work for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and is now the executive director and news editor. She writes extensively for the magazine on an array of topics and her stories have also been published in the Arab News, Saudi ARAMCO World, the Minaret, Islamic Horizons and other U.S. magazines, including the Jewish Spectator. She has written extensively on Palestine Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, the emergence of the Muslim voice in Arab politics, and fairness in the mainstream American media. Ms. Hanley has given talks at various conferences and demonstrations across the United States and Canada
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