Mervat Abou Oaf
Professor
Journalism and Mass Communication
The American University in Cairo
Egypt
Biography
Mervat Abou Oaf is Professor of Practice and former Chair (2012-14) at the Journalism and Mass Communication Department (JRMC) at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Abou Oaf is an academic and professional educator who has taught a variety of courses in Multimedia Journalism and Mass Communication with special emphasis in the areas of media law, regulations, and policy. She is also an expert at other theoretical and practical media disciplines including theories, ethics as well as multimedia writing and video editing and design. Global media, investigative reporting, editing wire news, as well as writing feature stories, and advocacy writing are among the subject matters Abou Oaf teaches. Besides, she was a member of the External Review Team (ERT) for the renewal of Accreditation of the Mass Communication Programs in the University of Sharjah (UoS), UAE; following the standards of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). Professionally, Abou Oaf is Directory Board Consultant to the “Chamber of Cinema Industry (CCI)” in Egypt in its ‘Legislative Commission’, effective Oct. 2016. CCI is a member of the Federation of Egyptian Industries affiliated with the Ministry of Industry among many others. Abou Oaf reports on affairs pertinent to piracy, censorship, barriers to foreign film production in Egypt, fostering Independent filmmaking, government intervention, bureaucracy and other affairs regulating the film industry in Egypt.
Research Interest
Media Management, Mass Communication, TV Journalism
Publications
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“Collective Guilt as a Response to Evil: The Case of Arabs and Muslims In the Western Media†discussing how influences of politics, media, and power come into play to formulate biases and stereotypes.
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Panel Discussion; “Entertainment & Media Convergence: The Medium of Video Games Present and Future Prospectsâ€
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“Evolution of Media Law and Policy in Egypt,†presented in the “7th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics†in Pretoria, South Africa in February 2016.
